Nerd Word of the Day: Flightmare

Calling an old-man network like MSNBC an author of a new/hip word is like calling a Gorby a fierce guard dog. But keep up the good work.

No, I experienced only a few trainmares during my numerous train journeys.

My nerd words are not actually supposed to be hip.. the tend to ne more nerdy :-)

Peter Graves, Actually all of the airline flights I have taken heve been ok. If you wan to include train rides, in 1981 the trip from Belgrade to Schweinfurt, I should have walked.

:smile: Airplane in a pretzel, pickle, classic movie poster

Speaking well of people who made us laugh who passed recently :arrow: R.I.P.
Henry Gibson

I suppose that more than 90% of people in the USA have never taken a train ride, excluding city rapid transit. Fuel, cars and airplane tickets are above 2 times cheaper in the States than in the Europe, so the passenger railways have declined during the last 50 years there.

Nerd for geeks…crazy! :???:

Excellent nerd word selection.

Hey, Marina, come here, surely, you like movies about gladiators?
Hey, don’t call me Shirley, I’m Captain Clarence Oveur
OK, back to you, over.

Airplane! (1980)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080339/

Wow, the movie was made in the year when you were born Marina.

Rest in peace Peter Graves, dies at 83

One of my all time favorites and have talked about it here on this site many times. My YT channel has had one of those quips on there since day one.

Surely, you can’t be serious.
Yes I am; and don’t call me Shirley.

Peter Graves didn’t say those lines, except for the gladiator one. Here are the memorable quotes from Airplane.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080339/quotes

Another homage that Marina did to Airplane is this lesson.

Prom Night? (Roger)

Captain Oveur says Roger and Roger was also Roger Murdock the co-pilot. Wha? You’re Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think you’re the greatest, but my dad says you don’t work hard enough on defense.

One of the greatest movies using word play since Who was on second.

One of Peter Graves great lines was:

Operator:
[Captain Oveur is on the phone with the Mayo
Clinic] Excuse me, Captain Oveur, but I have an emergency call on line 5 from a Mr. Hamm.

Captain Oveur:
Alright, give me a Hamm on 5, hold the Mayo.

“Ladies and gentlemen aboard, we’re sorry for the 4-hour delay on the runaway. We hope you can enjoy the inflight movies: A FLIGHTMARE On Elm Street followed by A FLIGHTMARE Before Christmas, before we can go underway. Thank you for your cooperation.” :mrgreen:

…and if you look out the window to your right,
we will be showing Gone With The Wind. :mrgreen:

just an opinion: you should stay away from msnbc. You of course are familiar with Russia Today/RT? They are an excellent news program.

[RIGHT-ON]…the census are a nightmare and training pilots at airplane schools are a nightmare…Airports are a capitalist/communist plot…paid for by the other half of an “[ECONOMY]“….MASTER/SLAVES or bosses/workers—art of of grants and soul-drain of society….K N I G H T-MARE…lets eat horse :lol: ..Marina is the coolest for “nerd”words :smile:

We were on are way back from Puerto Vallarta when our flight, for some unknown reason, was redirected to the Baja peninsula. We had to get off the plane and walk across the runway into a huge metal building. They collected all our passports. It was about 105 degrees and the guys with machine guns were hanging around. After about two hours we boarded an Air Mexicana. We were treated to sultry stewardesses with arms full of free tequila and rum. Ah, vacation memories.

RIP Peter Graves.

“Ya ever seen a grown man naked?” :lol:

Who knows Peter Graves’ brother’s name and what role he played on TV?

His name was James and he was on Gunsmoke?

Hoping you would do the word [leprechaun] for St. Patty’s Day.

Why yes sir, the late Mr. Graves’ brother is James Arness, whom I believe is still among us. He was TV’s Marshall Matt Dillon of ‘Gunsmoke’ fame for many years. He also has a bawdy sense of humor, if you’ve ever seen any out takes from the show. A little – known legwetting fact on Mr. Arness is that he played the role of ‘The Thing’ in the cult favorite movie ‘The Thing From Another World’ in 1951. Cheers,
dc

Indeed. One of the best. Loved the poetry.

Some people should study more, as you defined ‘nerd word’ some time ago, Dear Teacher. Yeah, I know, I’m a brown nose.
Speaking of brown, I’ll bet it got really ugly on that plane once the toilets got full. Urgh.
xoxodc

You are both quite right!

Yes, kiddies, there was a Matt Dillon before Matt Dillon.

Eat Me!: how did that saying get popular? :shock: :smile: :lol: …or what about that plane crash with the ball players? :idea: I’m a ham of the donner party…["Eat Me"]! poPCOrn :-)

….MASTER/SLAVES or bosses/workers—art of of grants and soul-drain of society….K N I G H T-MARE….

ponteporn investigates :lol: ;-)

[ Babelogue]—do this 4 nErd-WorD

Babelogue Patti Smith punk spoken word monologue

“I haven’t fucked much with the past, but I’ve fucked plenty with the future. Over the skin of silk are scars from the splinters of stations and walls I’ve caressed. A stage is like each bolt of wood, like a log of Helen, is my pleasure. I would measure the success of a night by the way by the way by the amount of piss and seed I could exude over the columns that nestled the P.A. Some nights I’d surprise everybody by skipping off with a skirt of green net sewed over with flat metallic circles which dazzled and flashed. The lights were violet and white. I had an ornamental veil, but I couldn’t bear to use it. When my hair was cropped, I craved covering, but now my hair itself is a veil, and the scalp inside is a scalp of a crazy and sleepy Comanche lies beneath this netting of the skin. I wake up. I am lying peacefully I am lying peacefully and my knees are open to the Sun. I desire Him, and He is absolutely ready to seize me. In heart I am a Moslem; in heart I am an American; In heart I am Moslem, in heart I’m an American artist, and I have no guilt. I seek pleasure. I seek the nerves under your skin. The narrow archway; the layers; the scroll of ancient letters. We worship the flaw, the belly, the belly, the mole on the belly of an exquisite whore. He spared the child and spoiled the rod. I have not sold myself to God.”

:smile: :lol: ;-)

[underwhite-soft belly]…God bless 2 cool aRTisTs-Marina & Patti :cool:

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Tapezieren einer Wand mit Ein-Markscheinen, die zum Zeitpunkt der Hyperinflation in der Weimarer Republik deutlich billiger waren als eine Tapete.

Français : Tapissage d’un mur avec des Billets de 1 Deutschmark. A l’époque avec l’hyperinflation de la république de Weimar, les billets était moins chers que le papier peint … :arrow: :roll: … NO ONE RUNS from Sin! :smile:

Death Of A Cabbie

Trolling through shadow he drives his fare,
Down cobbled streets this night.
A velvet green grows twix’d the stones
Unyielding constant life.
Do oil lamps exist as well to light this peasant youth?
Nay, cabbies stow each shilling-
Better spent on damsels, true!
The damsel in his dreams
Might needs this valiant heir.
Aye, damsels in distress do wait
The company worth the fare.
One chariot escort through the night
Please tour the stars as well.
Bring safely you to home and hearth
Then leave before dawn’s chill.
One cabbies lot to tour the street
Unfolding scenes of life
Do enter one door and leave the next
A family, a home, a wife.

His fate before him each new day
The reper ’round the bend.
What form this time my dear old friend,
This mortal time to end?
Speak soft in whisper’d silent tones-
Win death to your favour,
That next time ’round your path be smooth
And reward your present labour.
Drive slowly down the cobbled street
That sings of yesterday
For taxi drivers never die
They just get called away

Cabbie:

The freeway stretches long and loses itself deep inside the amniotic sack of a cold misty night.

75 down 101, I’ll claim 70 if I get caught,never fast enough to escape the cloak of fog that wraps its wet soul around my taxi.

The meter reads a red “for hire” surrounded by black velvet, and diamonds on the freeway sign pour white shafts of light;

Fairview Avenue, La Cumbre Road, Mission.

The windshield wiper works overtime to focus my view through a blur or rain that presses each second and hopes for a power failure.

the scent of my last fare still hangs in the air with the image of her silent weeping in the back of my head.

Off at Bath Street as I pull in my wings and hope to beat that light. One step closer but still a mile before taking refuge.

Just one more cab, nothing special as we line State Street like insects.

Third cab up and the last one in line. I pull over and the one behind me is left to roam the street. A scavenger hoping to see a carion hand waving him down for another 3.50 fare.

A well dressed couple open my door assuming passage into my world. “How’s it going? Were you wanna go?”
is the most I’ll ask before they retreat safely to themselves and discuss how to avoid their spouses.

They tip big. Ten bucks for a 5.90 fare and they’ve bought my silence as they’re pulled out of the cab by the undertow.

Heading for City College. Sent by that Great Dispatcher in the sky my Chevy makes it up that Loma Alta hill.

The overgrowth bushes reach out and paint my car and the view at the top looks like a postcard I saw once in a tee-shirt store.

The memory of the lady weeping behind me passes by with all the others and I stop to pick up a girl with tiger striped hair. How innocent her smile, how flawless the skin on her young face not yet marred by the teeth of life’s hunger.

She shared a great truth she’d learned in philosophy class. I told her “You never drive onto the same freeway twice”, and she paid her fare with a smile and wet wrinkled hands.

One hour more, two then,

silence.

Like black cotton filling the space of a gift box, the world sleeping inside of it.

“There must be really wierd people at night.” Someone once said.

“Yeah” I said with a smile, looking over and painting the sky black behind him.

poindexter people! :smile: :smile:

I somehow long ago got the idea he had died, but that’s not true. He also played the Thing in The Thing, where his face was never seen.

No, but I once saw a naked man grow up. :mrgreen:

It didn’t help that railroad operator CSX saved 2.2 billion USD by simply not doing needed maintenance, resulting in deaths in a famous accident, written up in David Johston’s book, Free Lunch.

It’s generally blue, if you care to look.

This is the real flightmare:
An ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano was projected to snarl international travel for a third straight day, as flight cancellations and airspace restrictions stretched into Sunday.

There were restrictions on civil flights in 23 countries across most of northern and central Europe. This swath includes Austria, Belgium, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, most of France, most of Germany, Hungary, Ireland, northern Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine and the United Kingdom.

Hundreds thousands of people are stranded at airports. Tickets for most international trains and buses has run out.

This could be a possible nightmare for anyone, even for people who do not have phobias of flying. Let this be a warning for everyone.

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sunless tanning lotions

{Hi:chair/there” :roll: fright mares—If your myths were like a tree….

Characteristics
Elder tree people command respect. WHen they are young they are extravagent and wasteful but inevitably, at some point of life something dawns on them and they settle down. They have a great deal of patience and self discipline. They can sometimes be heartless and cruel and sometimes possess a lack of good judgement in their choice of friends. They are ambitious people and are determined to win at all costs. They are outspoken and can be inclined to speak without thinking first but are very persuasive and elegant when they take the time. They are

highly {nergetic}(add the “D”) :smile: people and have a great deal of physical stamina.

Elder tree people are open in relationships but don’t tend to fall too deeply. They seem to keep their emotions out of most situations. They make wonderful aunts and uncles but have difficulty taming their restless nature enough for parenthood.

…sourced http://www.fortunecity.com/greenfield/tigris/567/id54.htm :grin:

lynyrd skynyrd~~~When, back in the 1960s, a Florida PE teacher named Leonard Skinner sent a group of students to the principal for having long hair, he little thought that their revenge would be both sweet and lucrative. The students went on to form a rock band, basing the name on that of their old teacher, although changing the spelling to Lynyrd Skynyrd. To rub in the point their first album was entitled Pronounced Leh-Nerd Skin-Nerd. The band went on to achieve massive success with songs such as Sweet Home Alabama and Free Bird. Despite the death of three band members in an air crash :cry: in 1977, they re-grouped and are still recording and touring. :smile: Skinner himself had a reputation as a disciplinarian and was not in favour of the loud music and long hair that went with the sixties youth culture. He professed to be annoyed that the band had used his name, although they later played at a bar he opened in their home town of Jacksonville.lynyrd-skynyrd-pronounced-leh-nerd-skin-nerd-album-cover…{nard}..how you be?

great post

great post

 I have always read a article for getting a many Importance Point  for the Flight Mare.
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20111126010814AAEpcI9