Blow a Gasket - 10 March 2014

<p>The Pope is tweeting in Latin! But can an ancient language adapt to a world of selfies and hashtags? Speaking of the future, cars are now talking to each other with V-2-V communication. And pit bull owners are trying to soften the image of their cute little dogs by calling them "pibbles." Plus, pizza bones, grand-nieces vs. great-nieces, pin vs. pen, sisu, blow a gasket, and write it on the ice. <br /><br />FULL DETAILS<br /><br />The Pope tweets in Latin! As it turns out, Latin is such an efficient language that it can compress a lot into 140 characters.<br /><br />What do you call your brother's granddaughter? Your great-niece or your grandniece? The Thomasville, Georgia, man who claims to have the world's largest collection of photos of relatives riding camels wants an answer. <br /><br />Thanks to Beyonce Knowles, who helped popularize the term bootylicious, the word surfbort is now a thing.<br /><br />For at least one listener, the crust on a slice of pizza is the dashboard. Italians have a specific word for that: cornicione.<br /><br />If you write it on the ice, what you write will be impermanent, or not to be counted on--the opposite of carved in stone.<br /><br />Puzzlemaster John Chaneski remixes the news by anagramming one word in each headline. For starters, which word is an anagram in New Deal in Honeybee Deaths?<br /><br />Finns say their word sisu meaning "guts" or "fortitude" characterizes their national identity. Does your culture have a such a word, like the Portuguese term saudade, perhaps?<br /><br />In the 16th or 17th century, a gourmand might be known by the less pretentious term slapsauce. The same term has also meant "glutton."<br /><br />Add blow a gasket to your list of Downton Abbey anachronisms. <br /><br />Snowboarders flailing their arms in the air might be the last folks who still wind down the windows.<br /><br />Pin vs pen is a classic example of the vowel merger specific to the Southern dialect.<br /><br />What does one order when on a strict diet? How about a honeymoon salad