Vintage Jet Slams Into Homes Near Air Show

Peter Duniho wrote:
"gatt" wrote in message
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Sorry, I killfiled you before I read the rest of your drivel. Idiot.
In other words, she can't handle an opposing opinion, couldn't think of a
way to argue like an adult, so she stuck her fingers in her ears and
resorted to name calling.

Yup. Pretty much.

She's been going off half-cocked at any hint of disagreement. Pretty soon,
she'll be talking to herself, 'cause she won't be reading anyone else's
posts.

Oh, please. I just don't like journalists.

On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 23:13:48 +0000, gatt wrote:

Er, if that's too incriminating
or something, let's just say it combusted?

Engaged in an uncontained but brief exothermic event?

The entire house is gone.

House has received the beginning of a complete reconstruction. For free!

Almost no wreckage of the house remained an hour afterward, let alone the
plane.

The event was sanitary.

- Andrew

"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message
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Er, if that's too incriminating or something, let's just say it
combusted?

Engaged in an uncontained but brief exothermic event?

The entire house is gone.

House has received the beginning of a complete reconstruction. For free!

Almost no wreckage of the house remained an hour afterward, let alone the
plane.

The event was sanitary.

LOL!

"A vintage jet suffered an engine problem today and caused mild damage to
three homes after an unscheduled off-runway touch down. The pilot expired
at the scene and a slight conflagration caused a fireball and a small cloud
of smoke to extend thousands of feet into the air. The damage to the house
is comprehensive and the resultant pyrotechnic event resulted in a
Three-Alarm on the job training exercise for local fire departments..."

Several aviators nationwide are seeking help for being slightly inconvience
by the mejia's choice of the word 'slammed'

-c

caused a fireball and a small cloud
of smoke to extend thousands of feet into the air.

Oh, stop being so melodramatic. "a small fraction of a mile".

Jose
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"gatt" wrote in message
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It didn't strike, it didn't impact, it didn't bounce off of, it didn't
land on, they didn't collide...it smashed into the friggin house.


Now you've gone and confused the whole issue! Did it "Slam" into the house,
or did it "Smash" into the house?
Crash Lander

"Crash Lander" wrote

Now you've gone and confused the whole issue! Did it "Slam" into the
house,
or did it "Smash" into the house?

I think the word the report was searching for, really, was "obliterated."
--
Jim in NC

"Morgans" wrote in message
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I think the word the report was searching for, really, was "obliterated."

Well, at least they didn't say "completely destroyed" or "partially
destroyed."

(Things are either destroyed or they're not. Otherwise, they might be
nearly-destroyed, heavily damaged, etc., but you still hear the media mangle
that one up.)

-c
((In the old days, "nauseous" meant you made other people sick, and
"nauseated" meant you felt sick. But Average American, not being the
sharpest collective knife in the drawer, dumbed the language down yet again
because they couldn't handle such multisyllabic complexity.))

Its like when people say "near miss." What they actually mean is "near
hit."

Its like when people say "near miss." What they actually mean is "near
hit."

No. There is no such thing as a "far hit". All hits are near... as
near as they can be. If you do not hit, you "nearly hit" but it is not
a "near hit'

However, misses come in many forms. You can miss by a mile (which is a
near miss in transatlantic aviation, and a far miss when diving into a
swimming pool). You can miss by inches, which is a near miss when
aviating and a far miss when doing brain surgery. None of these "nearly
missed", they most definately missed.

Jose
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The monkey turns the crank and thinks he's making the music.
for Email, make the obvious change in the address.

"Near miss" despite the grammatical error, implies a hit: it nearly
missed. i.e. it hit.

"Nearly hit" is what people mean when they say "near miss."