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Somebody needs to 'splain this to me

mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
edited July 2002 in General Discussion
So Mrs. Mudge and I get to Dulles Airport and go through security. You know....SECURITY where you can't get a nail clipper through 'cause they're DANGEROUS! (Mrs. Mudge lights up the machine cause she's got on so much gold.) We get on the plane to London (1st class). On the plane we're served our meals on CHINA and get our drinks in GLASSES. We're given PLASTIC utensils to eat with. Here's where my confusion lies. How come I can't have a metal knife and fork because they can be used as weapons, BUT, they'll give me china and glasses that I could easily break and use as a weapon???
STUPIDITY REIGNS SUPREME!!!!

Mudge the curious

I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS!
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  • airborneairborne Member Posts: 1,728 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just as soon as someone causes a problem with broken glass you will be eating off paper plates along with your plastic utensils. Don't you know they only react after-the-fact.

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  • groundhog devastationgroundhog devastation Member Posts: 4,495
    edited November -1
    Mudge, Already out traveling after the surgery? Way to go!! Keep us posted on the trip! GHD
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  • mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    The trip was before the surgery. It was great. The air show at Duxford was enough to give any WWII aircraft nut, goose bumps. 3 solid hours of flying by the greatest piston aircraft ever. To see 8 Spitfires and 6 Mustangs doing "lazy 8's" around the field was awesome. And there was enough flying by other stuff to fill the entire 3 hours. All the Grumman aircraft. 2 B-17's. Hurricanes, Corsairs, P-40's, a P-47, an A-26, an A-36, a Lancaster and a couple of A-4's.
    Plus others I can't remember right off the top of my head. We're already planning next years trip.

    Mudge the airplane nut

    I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS!
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  • leeblackmanleeblackman Member Posts: 5,303 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Wow, I bet thatt was awesome.

    If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.

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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hey Mudge, what else did you do? I love England, and will travel vicariously if you will let me...

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  • HappyNanoqHappyNanoq Member Posts: 12,023
    edited November -1
    I bet they choose CHINA plates and glasses - because PAPERCUTS are even worse than being stabbed with broken CHINA and glass...

    hehe... or ??????

    Regards
    Peter E J.
    Greenland.


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  • NighthawkNighthawk Member Posts: 12,022 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    This airport security has a lot of bugs to be worke out,I agree with you some of it is stupid.But at least their trying.Hope your feeling better mudge.


    Best!!




    Rugster
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  • Guns & GlassGuns & Glass Member Posts: 864 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I got it!
    That's because they figure 1st class ticket buyers aren't going to blow up the plane or themselves.
    People who would do that would only buy the cheapest seats.
    So don't sit back there.

    Really can get envious at thinking of you watching all those "birds".
    Glad you had a great time!

    Happy Bullet Holes!
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  • OPERATOROPERATOR Member Posts: 61 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Hey Peter... You just had to mention the danger of china and getting paper cuts with paper plates! With our luck, someone from the FAA will read these posts and mandate a new law requiring the airlines to start serving meals in paper bags... lol

    -operator

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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    Hey Mudge: See any Bearcats? Man, I love those stubby, radial-engined planes. Watched them race in Reno one year and they were tearing the Mustangs a new *.

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  • competentonecompetentone Member Posts: 4,696 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Guns & Glass said what I was going to say. (Great minds think alike!)


    Mudge,

    If you're into vintage planes, do you know anyplace good place I can try to sell an L-19 Birddog "Organizational Maintenance Manual"? (Not quite WW2 vintage, but one of the Vietnam era planes which has "practical" civilian interest. The plane itself was sold years back; I've still got the manual which I figure should be worth a couple of bucks to the right person--those wiring diagrams could come in handy!)

    Joe

    competentone@hotmail.com
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  • mudgemudge Member Posts: 4,225 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    Low Rider.....Yeah...There were 2 Bearcats there. The guy who organizes the air show flies one. Talk about a show-off. He'd take that thing up while the final fly-by was organizing and really wring it out. I think his favorite was to come screaming down from about 2,000 feet and pull out about 50 feet from the ground about 100 yards in front of the crowd. AWESOME machine.
    This picture is actually a lot clearer. It got fuzzy when I enlarged it. You get the idea.

    Mudge the airplane nut

    I can't come to work today. The voices said, STAY HOME AND CLEAN THE GUNS!
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  • LowriderLowrider Member Posts: 6,587
    edited November -1
    Too much, Mudgie. Thanks a lot for the picture.

    Lord Lowrider the LoquaciousMember:Secret Select Society of Suave Stylish Smoking Jackets She was only a fisherman's daughter,But when she saw my rod she reeled.
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