that word you are using... i do not think it means what you think it means

[leftofcool]

ah, gotta love these writers-using-not-quite-the-right-word things. :)

an otherwise worrying story about asbestos in toys

i've got this strange mental image of a buff manly bundle of asbestos running around flexing its muscles or something. :)

still trying to figure out what word the writer was actually going for. virulent? nope, not really. vile? who knows. :P :)