Reporters saying "TARMAC" how stupid!!

Jay,

Actually, Fixed Base Operator is an accurate term. It was coined to
describe the operators who stopped going from place to place to teach
flying or give rides. When they decided to stay at one airport, they
established a fixed base.

Then again, a fixed base operator could have had a certain surgerical
procedure... He wasn't broken, but we got him fixed and now he
doesn't work.

Warmest regards,
Rick

Jay Honeck wrote:

And the throttle -- that doesn't.

Uh ... what exactly do you think a throttle does?

George Patterson
The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 at 18:32:01 in message
yoWCd.620206$wV.185193@attbi_s54, Jay Honeck
wrote:

And the throttle -- that doesn't.

Actually in its original form it does 'throttle' the air intake to the
engine thus reducing the flow and the power. It does require a bit more
that that though to get the mixture right!
--
David CL Francis

In article yoWCd.620206$wV.185193@attbi_s54,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

And the throttle -- that doesn't.

it doesn't? Mine sure seems to throttle the engine power

--
Bob Noel
looking for a sig the lawyers will like

Reasons why the English language is so hard to learn:

1) The bandage was wound around the wound.

2) The farm was used to produce produce.

3) The dump was so full that it had to refuse more refuse.

4) We must polish the Polish furniture.

5) He could lead if he would get the lead out.

6) The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.

7) Since there is no time like the present, he thought it was time to present the present.

8) A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum.

9) When shot at, the dove dove into the bushes.

10) I did not object to the object.

11) The insurance was invalid for the invalid.

12) There was a row among the oarsmen about how to row.

13) They were too close to the door to close it.

14) The buck does funny things when the does are present.

15) A seamstress and a sewer fell down into a sewer line.

16) To help with planting, the farmer taught his sow to sow.

17) The wind was too strong to wind the sail.

18) After a number of injections my jaw got number.

19) Upon seeing the tear in the painting I shed a tear.

20) I had to subject the subject to a series of tests.

21) How can I intimate this to my most intimate friend?

Boxing rings are square and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is
it a pig. And why is it that writers write but fingers don't fing,
grocers don't groce and hammers don't ham?

If the plural of tooth is teeth, why isn't the plural of booth beeth?

One goose, 2 geese. So one moose, 2 meese?

One index, 2 indices? Doesn't it seem crazy that you can make amends
but not one amend. If you have a bunch of odds and ends and get rid of
all but one of them, what do you call it? If teachers taught, why
didn't preachers praught?

If a vegetarian eats vegetables, what does a humanitarian eat?

Why do people recite at a play and play at a recital? Ship by truck
and send cargo by ship? Have noses that run and feet that smell? How
can a slim chance and a fat chance be the same, while a wise man and a
wise guy are opposites? Drive on a parkway, and park in a driveway?

You have to marvel at the unique lunacy of a language in which your
house can burn up as it burns down, in which you fill in a form by
filling it out and in which, an alarm goes off by going on.

"Jose" wrote in message
news
[...] Or calling clusters of well known thin vertical hazards "antenna
farms" when nothing is grown or harvested there?

Huh? Are you saying that those huge steel structures weren't planted as
tiny seeds and nurtured carefully until they reached full height? I'll bet
that, eventually, they will even be harvested.

(And some ramps are more ramp-like than others )

Jose wrote:

Tarmac (short for tarmacadam) is actually a trade name for
the substance; it (the word)is formed from "tar" and "macadam". Macadam
(the paving substance made of crushed stone and a binder, usually tar)
is named after its inventer, John L. McAdam, a Scottish engineer.

Macadam is just the gravel, without any binder. John L. McAdam was the
first who built roads using several layers of gravel, without any
binder, each layer being pounded before the next layer was applied. This
method was new. The resulting surface was called macadam.

Tar-macadam most probably was the same thing with a binder, originally
tar, as I would assume.

Stefan

What do they use now? Sure smells like tar.

Not to bust anyone's bubble but HYX is getting a new ILS and in the
process just got a new ramp - made of guess what -Tarmac... We have
already found the limitations of Tarmac and it is helicopters plus
sunshine... Helicopter skids, leetle round tubing thingies, leave
nasty dents in Tarmac in the summer...

Denny

On Wed, 05 Jan 2005 18:22:27 GMT, Jose
wrote in ::

Money: What you need when you run out of brains.

Expletives and Swearwords:
The last refuge for those who have run out of brains.