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Old 04-21-2012, 04:05 AM
 
Location: Oklahoma
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Nah, as an athiest (at least for the purposes of this joke) I am just grateful that he didn't say he had 170 "fellow travelers" on board.

If he had then Allen West and all the right wing nuts on here would be screaming about how the communists have infiltrated the ranks of the Airline Pilots Association.

 
Old 04-21-2012, 04:15 AM
 
Location: Chesterfield,Virginia
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Originally Posted by eddie gein View Post
Nah, as an athiest (at least for the purposes of this joke) I am just grateful that he didn't say he had 170 "fellow travelers" on board.

If he had then Allen West and all the right wing nuts on here would be screaming about how the communists have infiltrated the ranks of the Airline Pilots Association.
Could you 'interpret' that for me?
 
Old 04-21-2012, 04:19 AM
 
Location: Chesterfield,Virginia
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BTW: As a 'retired' pilot .. I knew of more than a few pilots that were 'communists' as well as 'dopers'. weekend drunks and .. 'Left Wing' nuts.
 
Old 04-21-2012, 04:25 AM
 
Location: Old Bellevue, WA
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I think the use of 'souls' when referring to passengers goes back to 'Life on the Mississippi' by Mark Twain, who was a noted religious skeptic. It's a good literary device by which to re-humanize the death of 1000 or more people, as could happen with a steamship explosion/fire.
 
Old 04-21-2012, 04:28 AM
 
Location: My little patch of Earth
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Helpless, hapless, hollow, lost, empty souls abound.

Usually we shorten that description to democrat and every 'get's' it then.

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