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Please Do Not Resort to Cannibalism and Eat Your Fellow Passengers

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On a Phoenix to Tuscon flight, half the plane started cracking up when the flight attendant announced, “In the unlikely event of a water landing…”  The flight attendant protested that he had to say that, by law and he knows it is completely ridiculous to say. This video from College Humor …

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I’m Pulling a Plane Tomorrow for Charity

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Pizza in Motion asked me to be on his team and pull an airplane tomorrow.  Yes, a literal airplane. Read his post for more context. But in this case, I don’t think he’d mind me copying and pasting some of it, since it’s for charity. The donations to the American …

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Learn More Languages for Free

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I’ve written about DuoLingo before, the free game-ified way of learning languages that I prefer to Rosetta Stone.  Here’s why I prefer it to Rosetta Stone. They just announced that they are releasing new languages. In addition to Spanish, French, Portuguese, Italian, German, Irish, Swedish, Dutch, and Danish, you can now learn: Turkish Esperanto Norwegian Ukrainian Hungarian Klingon …

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