The phrase "A distinction without a difference" comes to mind...

No it's really not. If a passenger decides to light up in the bathroom, because they can't possibly do 3 hours without their deathsticks, it would be technically accurate to say there was a fire on board the plane. A small contained fire in the kitchen area, isolated from any of the planes system, is not going to do jack. People are acting like this was an engine fire or something. Aerophobia does weird things to otherwise rational people I guess...

Nope. Besides proving the idiocy and possible pyromania of a fellow passenger, those things are closed ventilation systems. Who knows if the burning did something nasty to the air quality on the plane?

No they aren't. Planes suck in and filter air from outside the cabin through the engines during flight.

Really, I just don't understand why they don't make airplane windows that are capable of opening. It would solve a lot of problems, and cause not a single other one.

guh? dint you see how goldfinger got sucked out faster than sh-t through a goose?

"It's Lieutenant Hurwitz. Severe shell-shock. Thinks he's Chris Berman."

Kurkjian: Hey mister, can I ask you a question?
Matt Wieters: A question - what is it?
Kurkjian: It's an interrogative statement designed to test knowledge, but that's not important right now.

My friend is of Polish ancestry. She got on a plane here in CT to fly out to her homeland, seeing all of the relatives and such. This was the morning of September 11,2001.

Her plane got like halfway through the flight, and then the tower told them to turn back. So they did; slowly and gradually turning around without telling the passengers what was going on. No one ever told them what was happening.

She disembarked at Bradley airport in CT, expecting to be in Poland. She was very confused that all of the signs were in English.

Sorry, but this is nonsense.

Back to Airplane!... I remember seeing a matinee of that in October 1980 at my hometown theater (which is now closing because it can't afford the transfer to digital projection, BTW), and came home just in time to watch Tug McGraw strike out Jose Cardenal to end Game 5 of the World Series.

In Jacksonville Buck Showalter held an impromptu team meeting, in which he told Orioles players that Peter Angelos "doesn't think too highly of your worth. He put this team together because he thought we'd be bad enough to finish dead last, knocking attendance down to the point where he could move the team to Miami... and get rid of all of us for better personnel."

"..because as you all know, there isn't any major league baseball in Miami."

It's fun to pick on him, but it really shows peoples inability to get nuance if they watch that clip and for one second think he was being serious when he made his comments.

If he doesn't want people to pick on him for that kind of stuff, he should work on his delivery. Maybe try doing some sets in smaller clubs, for practice, until he can come across as an actual human instead of some kind of freaky autistic robot-man.