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While listening to KOMO-AM on the way across Lake Washington this noon, I heard the traffic reporter say that there was a "carbecue" on I-405 which was blocking traffic. Carbecue, indeed. I suspect that all she meant was a car on fire but the image of driver and passengers roasting inside was more than I could abide.

Re: Human barbecue.

That's a disgusting show of levity.

It reminds me of something.

When Thich Quang Duc immolated himself at a busy Saigon intersection on June 11, 1963, to protest the oppression of Buddhism by the then Catholic Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem, Madame Nhu, the first lady of Vietnam was reported to have said that she would "clap hands at seeing another monk barbecue show."

(By the way, there is a Chinese restaurant on K. Rd in Auckland called : "The Hunam Barbecue Restaurant" ! Begob, whenever I'm there, it always makes me do a double-take.)

What first came to my mind upon seeing the title of this thread was a TV show I saw prolly back in the 70's. It was about wrapping your dinner in tinfoil and cooking it on the engine block as you drove down the road.

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What first came to my mind upon seeing the title of this thread was a TV show I saw prolly back in the 70's. It was about wrapping your dinner in tinfoil and cooking it on the engine block as you drove down the road.

Me too.

Did it qualified for a nastygram?

Me three... not on TV but an English-language textbook, of all places...

I too was disgusted by carbecue, but intrigued at Homo Loquens mention of "K Road". That's one of those local idioms the use of which suggests either a native or someone who's spent a lot of time there. If the latter, my sympathies for having had to spend so much time in Auckland, but at least K. Road's most famous induastry is now legal, should you ever have occasion to return.

Did it qualified for a nastygram?

Nah, I let it slide.

What's a "nastygram" ? A letter of complaint?

(Kia ora sjmaxq!)

Logwood asks whether I, as a bona fide member of the Word Police, with both a framed certificate and all of the rights and privileges pertaining thereto, wrote a letter of complaint to radio station KOMO-AM, as I am sometimes wont to do.

I wonder if this is shop talk that just made it to the air.

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I wonder if this is shop talk that just made it to the air.

While it's true, and probably inevitable, that rescue workers and fire fighters use this sort of language among themselves just so they can cope with the horrific circumstances that are a normal part of their work lives, this was a traffic reporter who should have been a little more careful with word choice.

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I wonder if this is shop talk that just made it to the air.

While it's true, and probably inevitable, that rescue workers and fire fighters use this sort of language among themselves just so they can cope with the horrific circumstances that are a normal part of their work lives, this was a traffic reporter who should have been a little more careful with word choice.

prescriptivist!!!!

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I wonder if this is shop talk that just made it to the air.

While it's true, and probably inevitable, that rescue workers and fire fighters use this sort of language among themselves just so they can cope with the horrific circumstances that are a normal part of their work lives, this was a traffic reporter who should have been a little more careful with word choice.

Wasn't excusing -- just wondering.

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I wonder if this is shop talk that just made it to the air.

While it's true, and probably inevitable, that rescue workers and fire fighters use this sort of language among themselves just so they can cope with the horrific circumstances that are a normal part of their work lives, this was a traffic reporter who should have been a little more careful with word choice.

prescriptivist!!!!

Where's that ROTFLMAO gr�mlin??

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I wonder if this is shop talk that just made it to the air.

While it's true, and probably inevitable, that rescue workers and fire fighters use this sort of language among themselves just so they can cope with the horrific circumstances that are a normal part of their work lives, this was a traffic reporter who should have been a little more careful with word choice.

prescriptivist!!!!

It's not a matter of rules, it's a matter of taste.

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What's a "nastygram" ? A letter of complaint?

(Kia ora sjmaxq!)

I'd like to know too

> nastygram

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Logwood asks whether I, as a bona fide member of the Word Police, with both a framed certificate and all of the rights and privileges pertaining thereto, wrote a letter of complaint to radio station KOMO-AM, as I am sometimes wont to do.