Continued from I&A thread:
http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=announcements&Number=40101

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Bobyoungbalt (old hand) Wed Sep 19 22:53:25 2001
Overlarge thread

This is a great thread but unmanageably large. Would one of you old masters do what it takes to break it up?
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Capital Kiwi (veteran) Thu Sep 20 00:48:56 2001
Re: People for the American Way

Froggie, I meant that the "left-wing" political party - theoretically the Democrats - would be regarded, in its entirety, as ultra-conservative in Zild. - Ratty.*

*Froggie of Toad Hall? Doesn't really sound right, does it?
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Jmh (veteran) Thu Sep 20 05:15:32 2001
Re: Tea time

Ted

For your crime of punning, telling of shaggy dog tales and humour of dubious origins I hereby fine you, one cup of tea (hot, no iced stuff), to be brewed by you and presented by you to me in fine bone china the next time I set am within a fifty mile radius of you on US soil.
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Jmh (veteran) Thu Sep 20 05:18:21 2001
Re: Overlarge thread

>Would one of you old masters do what it takes to break it up?

Ahem, I was wondering if anyone had any views on the phrase "begs the question"? See you in Q&A.
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Rodward (addict) Thu Sep 20 06:08:33 2001
Re: Security II

auto-pilot controlled landings ... I believe this is practicable now, just not deemed advisable for the public's feeling of security

many landings are on auto-pilot as I understand it, they just don't talk about it much. Certainly the old Trident airplanes (circa 20 years ago?) were the only ones able to land in fog at London, precisely because it was automatic. There is a story that the program had to be changed because it landed too flat, pefectly safe but the customers felt safer with the nose high.

From google - I just had to check my memory:
first fully automated commercial landing was made by a BEA Trident 1 in May 1967
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Faldage (Pooh-Bah) Thu Sep 20 08:33:51 2001

Re: to the right of Ghengiz Khan!

And just how far right *was Ghengiz Khan?

As far as I know he could have been the front man for an anarcho-syndicalist collective.
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