[lit-ideas] Re: Welcome Aboard
- From: "Paul Stone" <pastone@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2007 20:33:14 -0400
>
> It contains a statistic which I'd long suspected, but never seen in print:
> number
> of wide-bodied aircraft that have made successful landings on
> water...zero.
That depends on what you mean by "successful". I mean, come on, haven't you
ever seen "lost"?
"There's a life jacket under your seat...inflatable slides detach to
> form life rafts..."
I like Jerry Seinfeld description of Sky Diving:
"…Skydiving was definitely the scariest thing I've ever done. Let me ask you
this question in regards to the skydiving: what is the point of the helmet
in the skydiving? I mean, can you kinda make it? You jump out of that plane
and that chute doesn't open, the helmet is now wearing *you* for protection.
Later on the helmet's talking with the other helmets going "It's a good
thing that he was there or I would have hit the ground directly."
paul
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