rumble strip

[Dan Goncharoff]

1. Traffic spikes.

2. You mean, wet in Egypt?

DanG

On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> I.
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> And what do you call that security device that shreds your tires if you try
> driving over it without push-button authorization?
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> II.
> And how come the Eskimos know 217 different words for snow and most of us
> don't even know one word to describe some of these too-familiar items?  Are
> we that deep in denial?
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> JL
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> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 3:06 PM, Alice Faber <faber at haskins.yale.edu> wrote:
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>> On 5/2/11 11:44 AM, Joan H. Hall wrote:
>> > I know them as "rumble strips."
>> >
>> > While we are on the subject; what is the term for the rough roadway
>> > that generates an infernal racket when a car approaches a toll booth?
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>> Those are the ones I think of as rumble strips. I'm not sure what I'd
>> call the rough stuff designed to keep you from drifting off the road.
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