rumble strip

[Jonathan Lighter]

> 2. You mean, wet in Egypt?

Or in the river that runs through Paris.

JL


On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Dan Goncharoff <thegonch at gmail.com> wrote:

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> 1. Traffic spikes.
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> 2. You mean, wet in Egypt?
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> DanG
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> On Mon, May 2, 2011 at 3:27 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
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> > I.
> >
> > And what do you call that security device that shreds your tires if you
> try
> > driving over it without push-button authorization?
> >
> > 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>
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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?
> >>
> >> 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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