Follow up on MPR’s Morning Edition Jargon Contest
Too many listeners have contacted me about publishing the complete list of jargon terms submitted for this contest, so here goes.....
Our purpose with this jargon contest was to find a term that was a suitable description of the snow, ice, and grit that gets caught in the wheel wells and along the fender edges of cars and trucks during the Minnesota winter. As mentioned on MPR's "Morning Edition" today and in the Minnesota WeatherTalk Newsletter there was a four-way tie for first place as voted on by a committee I asked to review these submissions. The winners were
"carsicles"
"carnacles"
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"fenderbergs"
"fender fudge"
In response to several MPR listeners who asked me to show the complete list of submissions for this contest, here they are:
slushcicles, hubcicles, road cookies, road apples, car patties, car poo,
fender flotsam, fender fodder, carbergs, autobergs, car plaque, carlactites,
snow clods, ice clods, grice, slush buggers, car goobers, snards, snarg,
snunk, snurds, snouch, scrud, snocks, snow smegma, snow scat, snow fangs,
icecretes, cryomites, clake, wheelwell willies, wheelwell squealers, wheeler squealers, kickies, klingons, klunkers, divots, vice presidents, traffic tailings, casseroles,
hanging chads, chuds, snow boogers, car dung, Nowegian omlettes