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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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"!)



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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_.





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