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

>