Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 20:49:13 -0800

From: "Thomas L. Clark" tlc[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]NEVADA.EDU

Subject: Re: gapers' block



"Looky lous" is a term I first heard in England, and first saw in print in

the Inspector Morse novels.

Cheers,

Thomas L. Clark 702/895-3473

University of Nevada, Las Vegas (89154-5011)

tlc[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]nevada.edu



On Fri, 22 Mar 1996, Sylvia Swift wrote:



i don't know any specific terms for the slowdowns rubberneckers cause.

but i did notice just this morning that a local traffic reporter called

the people who cause such a traffic jam "looky lous" (lookey-loos? the

singular is looky lou. i don't know how to spell it. i always thought

of the second part of the term as a person's name, by analogy with nervous

nellie). i had previously only heard that term from people who work in

real estate. that's what they call people who have no intention of buying

anything, but turn up for open houses, etc., for the pleasure of looking at

other people's stuff.



sylvia swift

madonna[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]violet.berkeley.edu