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2006-09-06 Home Front: WoT

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Posted by Fred 2006-09-06 00:00|| || Front Page|| [9 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 They're coming to take me away
ha ha ho ho hee heee

Posted by Crutle Thromoper7421 2006-09-06 00:26|| 2006-09-06 00:26|| Front Page Top

#2 Joshua Mayo has described his mother as a peace activist and said she had been returning from several months in Pakistan when she was arrested...... ~~she became so excited about returning to the big PX she simply pissed herself.~~

Posted by Besoeker 2006-09-06 00:33|| 2006-09-06 00:33|| Front Page Top

#3 We in the medical profession prefer the Haldol tear-gas cannisters

On an airplane with a recirculating air system?!? Surely you jest, Dr. White!

Separately, that nice Pakistani fiance of hers who isn't allowed into this country will be pining for a long while.

Posted by trailing wife 2006-09-06 01:14|| 2006-09-06 01:14|| Front Page Top

#4 Separately, that nice Pakistani fiance of hers who isn't allowed into this country will be pining for a long while.

Too bad. He might have been able to beat some sense into her. [rimshot]

Posted by Zenster 2006-09-06 01:42|| 2006-09-06 01:42|| Front Page Top

#5 I do not jest, and don't call me Shirley.

The Haldol tear-gas cannister is wonderful on airplanes. Pop it and everyone goes into peaceful muttering mode for an hour, and that's all the pilots need to land the plane (they have masks, of course). Awfully hard to bring a plane down (or pee on the carpet runner down the center aisle) when the voices in your head are off to nappy-nap time.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2006-09-06 01:46|| 2006-09-06 01:46|| Front Page Top

#6 Oh. If the pilots have masks I withdraw my objections.

(Does everybody (including me) have that damned film memorized?!?)

Posted by trailing wife 2006-09-06 01:50|| 2006-09-06 01:50|| Front Page Top

#7
Dr. White, some of your colleagues thought it would be best to inject me with Haldol a couple of years ago. They got a case of the ass because they thought I didn't appreciate the high doses of prednisone they were forcing me to take. How was I to know that it was unreasonably anti-social of me to be grappling with the nursing staff and the security guards fighting to escape the hospital.

the shit works BTW.

Posted by RD 2006-09-06 02:22|| 2006-09-06 02:22|| Front Page Top

#8 (Does everybody (including me) have that damned film memorized?!?)

Let's face it. This world would be a much better place if so many people dedicated themselves to memorizing "Airplane!" instead of the Koran.

The ending of the "I speak jive, stewdress" scene with Barbara Billingsly sashaying back down the plane's aisle flippantly retorting, "Chump don wan no help, chump don git no help. Jive ass dude don got no brains anyhow." had me gasping in total hysterics.

SIDEBAR: Does anyone remember the uncensored version of this scene when the movie first hit the theaters? Billingsly most definitely did not say "dude."

"Airplane!" was easily the finest bit of American feature length comedy since the Marx Brothers.

Trivia question: Who was the only regular star from the lengthy "Airport" series of films that did not defect over to the "Airplane!" cast?

Answer: George Kennedy

Posted by Zenster 2006-09-06 03:53|| 2006-09-06 03:53|| Front Page Top

#9 IIRC, Barbara was wearing her signature pearls, too. :)

Posted by flyover 2006-09-06 04:45|| 2006-09-06 04:45|| Front Page Top

#10 O² therapy works as well as haldol.

Rx: One application of the O² cannister to the side of the head. Repeat as necessary.

Posted by Fred 2006-09-06 08:00|| 2006-09-06 08:00|| Front Page Top

#11 Hey, what's the problem? Sounds like a typical Vermont democrat to me.

Posted by mcsegeek1 2006-09-06 11:03|| 2006-09-06 11:03|| Front Page Top

#12 I can take out a whole plane full of folks with my Haldol tear gas cannister whilst you're whacking them one at a time with the O2 cannister. However, the Haldol cannister does not produce the soul-satisfying 'thud'. Caveat emptor.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2006-09-06 11:05|| 2006-09-06 11:05|| Front Page Top

#13 Or the pilots can simply dial down the cabin pressurization: whilst wearing their masks and all the cabin creatures go lights out ( only down side is that the cabin crew does too, unless they get the word and step out to the crew rest compartment and slip into theirs first.) and no complaints about txins of anything. and yes i picked a helluva time to quit drinking / smoking / sniffing glue....

Posted by USN, ret. 2006-09-06 14:31|| 2006-09-06 14:31|| Front Page Top

#14 Hey, we are all now educated about how hazardous liquids can be on a plane. Maybe she was suspected of some kind of bladder smuggling of liquid explosives

Posted by Sheesh 2006-09-06 22:46|| 2006-09-06 22:46|| Front Page Top

#15 Hold the Mayo!

(Someone had to say it)

Posted by DMFD 2006-09-06 23:16|| 2006-09-06 23:16|| Front Page Top

#16 Damn your eyes, DMFD. I don't know how I missed that one, especially seeing as how it occurred to me when this article first surfaced.

Having previously worked in a delicatessen, all through Airplane!'s "Mayo Clinic" scene, I could just see that line coming, it was only a matter of when. The only thing missing was some sort of "Mission Impossible" tie-in with Peter Graves.

Posted by Zenster 2006-09-06 23:22|| 2006-09-06 23:22|| Front Page Top

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