Expressway to your Heart
David Casseres
casseres at apple.com
Wed Jun 11 11:41:55 CDT 1997
somebuddy asked
>> And mine is: what the fuck is a turnpike????
'n' Dale Larson sez
>Best I can tell, it's just another name for a toll road. I know, you
>don't have those on the left coast, either.
Working from memory, I believe a turnpike is actually a tollgate in the
form of a pole (pike) mounted on a swivel to bar the road. And so a toll
road was a "turnpike road."
Cheers,
David
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