Drabble by Kevin Fagan for September 18, 2017

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    WoodEye  about 7 years ago

    Everything in the first panel is real, not so much in the rest.

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    dadoctah  about 7 years ago

    I probably listened to traffic reports for six months before I realized that a “paint-scraper” and a “bumper-thumper” weren’t some kind of obscure road-maintenance machinery. “Fender-bender” I got, but the reporters felt compelled to mix it up.

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    therese_callahan2002  about 7 years ago

    “Got my spine. Got my orange crush.”

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    Lyons Group, Inc.  about 7 years ago

    Try Atlanta. Almost every station (even public radio) carry traffic reports.

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    AlanM  about 7 years ago

    The Los Angeles “Spaghetti Bowl” exists.

    http://pastmycurfew.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/Freeway-Interchange.jpg

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    Plods with ...™  about 7 years ago

    The interstates though Chicago have historic figure names. Kennedy (I-90), Eisenhower (I-290), Stevenson (I-55), etc Anyone not from the area will not know what the traffic reporters are talking about.

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    e.groves  about 7 years ago

    I was taking my grandson to school one morning and the traffic guy reported a fender bender near my house. It was my wife on her way to work.

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    2Goldfish  about 7 years ago

    The orange crush and el Toro ‘Y’ are in orange county, California. The spaghetti bowl is in Salt Lake City, Utah. Don’t know if the others are real.

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    onyxsax  about 7 years ago

    D.C. has the Springfield Mixing Bowl and The Rock Creek Roller Coaster among others

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    sml7291 Premium Member about 7 years ago

    If you aren’t a local, familiar with the local names for things, it’s hardly worth listening to traffic reports …but then that’s the joke here.

    I grew up in the Chicago area and if you don’t know the highways by name you’ll never know what they’re talking about. I’ve lived all over the country and the same problem occurs any place big enough to have traffic reports and cute names for roads in the area. A handy shorthand for locals but very confusing for anyone new to an area.

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    Fido (aka Felix Rex)  about 7 years ago

    FWIT — The El Toro Y and the Orange Crush are only about 10 miles apart as the crow flies. That means that on a normal traffic day, it will take you about 40-60 min. to cover that 10 miles.

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