Re: Old Machines

[johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend)]

In article <lej2.374.2E3529B4@po.cwru.edu>, lej2@po.cwru.edu (Lewis E. Jones) writes:
|> In article <3133nd$p9b@meaddata.meaddata.com> johnt@meaddata.com (John Townsend) writes:
|> 
|> >Boy, I went to an air show in Dayton, Ohio last weekend, and couldn't
|> >believe what I saw.  It was shocking.  Some of those pilots had the gall
|> >to fly planes that were no longer in production.  There were WWII B-17s
|> >and B-29s, and even (horror of horrors!) WWI biplanes doing things their
|> >manufacturers had never intended.  Even the Thunderbirds were flying F-16s
|> >that had been designed and built before my Apple IIgs.  I was embarassed
|> >to be an American, I tell you.  At the same time, though, I kinda felt
|> >sorry for those poor people who couldn't afford to fly a more modern
|> >airplane like everyone else.  Either that, or they just weren't smart
|> >enough to handle the power of today's machines.  Still, someone should do
|> >something about these people - pass a law banning them from airports or
|> >something.  No one should be flying anything older than an F-22, let alone
|> >be having fun at it.  Geez!
|> 
|> 
|> A sphincter says wha' ?

I believe it's called "satire."  Look it up.

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