XPost: alt.usage.english, rec.arts.books.tolkien   
   From: a24061@ducksburg.com   
      
   On 2011-08-30, Robert Bannister wrote:   
      
   > On 30/08/11 7:42 AM, Peter Moylan wrote:   
      
   >> In none of those meals would I eat entrails taken from the train tracks.   
      
   > Notice how he carefully avoids the word "road".   
      
   It's important to distinguish "roadkill" from "railkill".  That's why   
   we have to fight the insidious Americanism "railroadkill".   
      
      
   --   
   By dint of plentiful try...catch constructs throughout our code base,   
   we are sometimes able to prevent our applications from aborting.  We   
   think of the resultant state as "nailing the corpse in the upright   
   position".                                              [Verity Stob]   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)