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Asbestos Longjohns N. Notional Garments Donned By Usenet Posters Just Before Emitting A Remark They Expect Will Elicit Flamage.
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asbestos longjohns n.
Notional garments donned by
Usenet posters just before emitting a remark they expect will
elicit flamage. This is the most common of the asbestos
coinages. Also `asbestos underwear', `asbestos overcoat', etc.
Related:
asbestos longjohns n. Notional garments donned by Usenet posters just before emitting a remark they expect will elicit flamage.
This is the most common of the asbestos coinages....
asbestos adj. [common] Used as a modifier to anything intended to protect one from flame
also in other highly flame-suggestive usages. See, for example, asbestos longjoh...
asbestos: adj. Used as a modifier to anything intended to protect one from {flame}
also in other highly {flame}-suggestive usages....
NOMEX underwear: /noh'meks uhn'-der-weir/ [USENET] n.
Syn. {asbestos longjohns}, used mostly in auto-related mailing lists and newsgroups....
Fire protection: that's asbestos it gets...
I'm meditating on the FORMALDEHYDE and the ASBESTOS leaking into my PERSONAL SPACE!
! -- Zippy the Pinhead...
Per ardua ad asbestos --- Damn you Jack, I'm fireproof!
asbestos cork award n. Once, long ago at MIT, there was a flamer so consistently obnoxious that another hacker designed
had made, and distributed posters announcing that said flamer had been nominated for the `asbestos cork award'....