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• 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 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'....
• 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 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'....
• 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....
• NOMEX underwear: /noh'meks uhn'-der-weir/ [USENET] n.
  Syn. {asbestos longjohns}, used mostly in auto-related mailing lists and newsgroups....
• begin: // [from the LaTeX command] With \end, used humorously in writing to indicate a context or to remark on the surrounded text.
  For example: \begin{flame} Predicate logic is the only good programming language....
• flame bait: n. A posting intended to trigger a {flame war}, or one that invites flames in reply.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• Fire protection: that's asbestos it gets...