Full article, with non-airline related material, is at http://www.mullings.com/dr_04-29-02.htm ----- Original Message ----- Subscribe to Mullings. It's free at http://www.mullings.com or you can support the Mullings Movement for $25 click here: http://www.mullings.com/subs-01-02.htm MULLINGS An American Cyber-Column A Bit Peckish Rich Galen Monday April 29, 2002 From Spokane, Washington * Reports out of Texas indicate that the advance people - I suppose we are on safe sand, here, to call them advance MEN - for the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia informed the US air traffic control authorities that it would please His Highness if there were no women air traffic controllers speaking to the pilots en route from Houston, and no women working on the ramp when the plane came in. * Assuming this story is true at all, it is probably not something the Crown Prince himself required, but something a mid-level functionary, trying too hard to please, invented on his very own and passed on down the line. _______________________________________________ * Real In-Flight Humor Dept.: At the Spokane Airport at about 6:00 AM, yesterday, a United gate agent with a British accent reminded passengers on flights to Denver and Chicago there would be beverage-only service in coach, "so," she said, "if you're feeling a bit peckish, you might get a bite to eat." * Peckish. Good one. * Then on the airplane from Salt Lake City to Washington, the pilot came on to tell us that we were going through some rough air and suggested we "make sure your feetbelt is, uh ..." "Because," he said, he wanted to "err on the safe side." * In "The Right Stuff" Tom Wolfe said all airline pilots sounded alike because Chuck Yeager spoke with a drawl and his style has been passed down through generations of pilots. This was like flying with Chuck Yeager. Reading from the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. _____________________________________________ * On the Secret Decoder Ring page today Scarface, Kool-Aid, the definition of "peckish," well as the usual stuff: http://www.mullings.com/dr_04-29-02.htm -- END -- Copyright © 2002 Richard A. Galen