The Airplane Thing

[sniffnoy]

(All quotes, as usual, are approximate.)

Jon: Yeah, it's so much easier to tell your parents you're atheist when you're brother's a fucking priest[0]! I'm even godfather to a few people...

Me: Wait, what is a godfather anyway?

Jon: It means you're supposed to help bring them up as good Christians.

Me: Then how can you be godfather to an airplane?

Jon and Ashley: [General confusement and notes that you *can't*]

Me: I'm sure I read this book once where these people were godfather to an airplane...

I kept laughing about that for nearly the whole night. Jon said he'd ask his brother. As of now, I haven't heard from him about it.

-Sniffnoy

[0]Um, bad choice of words perhaps? :P

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"I mean, there needs to be a wholesale effort against racial profiling,
which is illiterate children."
-George W. Bush

Comments

[grenadier32.livejournal.com]

Incredible...

No, I am sure...

[kevboy2k.livejournal.com]

I am sure that was a perfectly truthful *hehehe* choice of words.

Re: No, I am sure...

[jonpin.livejournal.com]

I guess "goddamn(ed) priest" wouldn't have worked too much better.

[forcemajeure.livejournal.com]

Well, you wouldn't want the airplane to grow up and join some wacky cult, would you?

[sniffnoy.livejournal.com]

I have to wonder, though, if you'd want the airplane to grow up at all...

[forcemajeure.livejournal.com]

There is nothing less attractive than an airliner trapped in perpetual adolescence. Witness the Canadair CRJ-700: is it a puddle jumper or an airliner? Really, it's neither; it's just sad.

I just find it frustrating when a perfectly good airliner -- like the Boeing 747SP, with its retro-chic oversize stabilizer -- falls in with a bad crowd.