Date:  Mon, 12 Feb 1996 08:59:03 PST

From:  tom creswell <creswell[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]CROWN.NET>

Subject: Re: warp speed?



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>I have heard this expression in the 1987 film "Lost Boys" in relation

>to a car. Briefly, a bunch of kids are trying to escape from some

>vampires and jump into their car. one of them says "Burn rubber!" and

>the driver accidentally puts the car in reverse, almost resulting in

>the car goimg over the edge of a cliff. To this the driver says "Burn

>rubber does not mean warp speed!"

>

>This would suggest that it is not too recent a phrase (almost 10

>years) and that it has been used about "modes of transport" other

>than snow boards and mountain bikes. I have no idea as to its origins

>though.

>

>Charlotte (I think my 22 years of age still class me as "youth"!)

>

>##########################################################

>Charlotte Thomas EGP95CMT[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]Sheffield.ac.uk

>CECTAL

>Dept. of English Language and Linguistics

>University of Sheffield

>Sheffield

>S10 2TN

>UK

>

>From -Random House Webster's College Dictionary_. 1992.



warp speed, n. an extremely rapid rate of speed: _rumors traveling at warp

speed_. [alluding to the use in science fiction of spatial or temporal warps

to travel interstellar distances]



warp (sense 11). a hypothetical eccentricity or discontinuity in the

space-time continuum: _a space warp_.





Tom Creswell______________________________________________________



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