On the news radar this week came this article about a pilot and a flight attendant, arrested naked in the woods, where they had gone to go do it. This highlights the important issue of the difficulty airline pilots have joining the mile high club … well, no it doesn’t. It’s just a silly article. […]
Here’s a tale from a ticket-sales agent at an unnamed airline:
I’ve made it through all the calls from adults who didn’t know the difference between a.m. and p.m., from mothers of military recruits who didn’t trust their little soldiers to get it right, from the woman who called to get advice on how to handle […]
I saw David Sedaris last night, and he gave this nugget he got from flight attendants. At the end of flight the attendants come through to pick up garbage. When a flight / plane has been particularly rude / annoying / obnoxious, instead of saying “trash please,” some attendants will say “you’re trash.” Which sounds […]
NPR breaks down a bunch of modern air travel myths. Seems that today’s airplane passenger has a few too many rusty ideas about the way things oughta work. These are a few of my favorites:
Nothing is more thrilling and glamorous than modern jet flight.
When you purchase a ticket, you expect to travel to the city […]
UK’s Daily Mirror reports today that sex drug Viagra could help travelers recover from jet lag. This works on west-to-east travel, and so far has been proven to work on hamsters:
Experiments on hamsters found they climbed on to wheels 25 to 50 per cent faster if they were given the sex drug after having their […]
So I see this link to a page of “Funny Air Traffic Control quotes.” Figure any list of funny quotes is probably a good list. Man was I wrong. To be fair, it might not be the air traffic controllers’ fault they’re not funny. It might be they don’t have a good set-up man. Or […]
Friday is world-wide No Pants day. That makes it an opportunity for the thousands flying tomorrow: leave your pants in your luggage and go no-pants on the airplane.
More info at www.nopantsday.com
There’s some good stuff in Daily Candy’s Travel Commandments. My favorite:
You call it a romantic three-day weekend; the airlines call your Friday night departure a sitting duck. Keep a plan B at point A just in case a jauntily named storm comes between you and paradise.
Edward Tufte probably doesn’t need to see this, but you do. This is a funny, insightful and cute doodles-as-analysis / unsophisticated stat site: indexed.blogspot.com (via Information Aesthetics).
Other favorites of mine:
Pop Stars vs. Possums
Contraception for the lazy
Biological clock warning signs
The beer cycle