12/22/2002: Word usage maps

[CharlieG]

Originally posted by 99 44/100% pure
Don't worry, slang, I think 99 44/100ths (Hey! That's me!) of the readers got the joke.

But I was not joking about the way New Yorkers park -- I was actually taught to do it that way! Doesn't fly too well out here in Mighty-White-land (the suburb where I currently reside).

Of course you were - we call it the "Parking nudge" I know my father hates cars with plastic/painted bumpers because of this - he says they always get scratched Give him CHROME, with a rubber "rub strip" or black painted bumpers