Gregory
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Oct 22, 2006, 10:32 AM
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On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 13:35:55 GMT, Jim Barrett <embedded@pitchmark.org>
brought the following to our attention:
>"vbcv" <vcbcv@zxcvzcxv.com> wrote in
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>> Would you feel better if I took time out of my hobby, to take stabs at
>> the US? Just to start something?
>>
>> Who do you think you are, that is so bored with life, that you can
>> take a stab, on a global newsgroup, to people who are going to take
>> offence, whom are probably your allies in times of crisis?
>>
>> You set out what you intended to do, you started something.
>>
>> Do you feel better now?
>>
>>
>>
>
>Good Lord man, you certainly seem to have a thin skin.
>
>I have worked professionally in aviation maintenance for most of my adult
>life, and I can assure you that this sort of good-natured ribbing goes on
>all the time between the people who fly/maintain "competeing" models of
>aircraft. Boeing pilots make wisecracks about those who fly Airbuses, and
>vice-versa. Learjet folks joke about Citations... Gulfstream crews joke
>about Challengers etc.
Yep.. and Illinois people refer to Wisconsin folk as `cheese heads´
whereas Chi-cAh-go is known for it CRIME, vise-versa!!
No really.. a US crew responds thusly:
Appro Ctrl: "report the Airbus in sight.."
Boeing Crew: "yeah - we got `the bus´.."
he he he.. we were all chuckling, Approach, the flight deck, and the
AIR-band listener.
-G
>It's no different than the kind of remarks residents of two different
>cities might make about each other's sports teams.
>
>Nobody in the professional aviation world takes offense... you're making a
>big issue out of nothing. As someone else said.. "Lighten up".
>
>Jim Barrett
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