Where the coal-face meets the road

Where the coal-face meets the road is a catch phrase in the transdimensional resource extraction industry.

Effects

The phrase conflates a wide range of coal mine fires (nonfiction) and mountains of burning tires (nonfiction), in a variety of road-related environments.

Origin

The origin of the catch phrase has been widely debated.

Weaponizing the digeridoo?

According to John Brunner, the phrase originates during the Second World War (nonfiction) with secret Australian-American experiments towards weaponizing (nonfiction) the didgeridoo (nonfiction).

Fiction cross-reference

• Catch phrase
• John Brunner
• Transdimensional resource extraction

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Didgeridoo (nonfiction) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didgeridoo
• Resource extraction (nonfiction)
• Weaponization (nonfiction)