Private, enclosed, climate-controlled, elevated walkway that connects two or more buildings. So named for the tendency of white office workers to use them and avoid contact with the street below, where people of color congregate.
"The skywalk system connecting the buildings and interior space of the Peachtree Center complex was the most controversial aspect of the project. Called "honky tubes" by local African-Americans, the skywalks tend to segregate the mostly white visitors rather than encouraging them to experience the life of the city outside the buildings."
Source:
Paul Kantor, Dennis R. Judd
American Urban Politics in a Global Age: The Reader, p. 195
Longman, c2007
A slang alternative to a sausage/banger/hot dog. Due to the ability to hide cheap cuts of meat inside the skin, offal can be substituted for pork/beef.
Oh yummy a cooked breatfast, fried eggs, bacon and two offal tubes.
Phrase meaning - Fully reachable through on-line chat, email, and phone. Typically used in an collaborative work setting to denote that you will be out of office, but easily reachable. Originating in the southeast, it may be a derivation stemming from the old office mail suction tubes - "able to be reached through the tubes".