Related:

• asbestos: adj. Used as a modifier to anything intended to protect one from {flame}
  also in other highly {flame}-suggestive usages....
• asbestos longjohns n. Notional garments donned by Usenet posters just before emitting a remark they expect will elicit flamage.
  This is the most common of the asbestos coinages....
• asbestos longjohns: n. Notional garments donned by {USENET} posters just before emitting a remark they expect will elicit {flamage}.
  This is the most common of the {asbestos} coinages....
• flame bait n. [common] A posting intended to trigger a flame war, or one that invites flames in reply.
  See also troll....
• metasyntactic variable n. A name used in examples and understood to stand for whatever thing is under discussion, or any random member of a class of things under discussion.
  The word foo is the canonical example. To avoid confusion, hackers never (well, hardly ever) use `foo' or other words like it as permanent names for anything....
• flame bait: n. A posting intended to trigger a {flame war}, or one that invites flames in reply.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• NOMEX underwear: /noh'meks uhn'-der-weir/ [USENET] n.
  Syn. {asbestos longjohns}, used mostly in auto-related mailing lists and newsgroups....
• Fire protection: that's asbestos it gets...
• asbestos cork award n. Once, long ago at MIT, there was a flamer so consistently obnoxious that another hacker designed
  had made, and distributed posters announcing that said flamer had been nominated for the `asbestos cork award'....