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| 276.1 | I'll take the A-train. | APTECH::RSTONE | | Mon Nov 17 1986 13:07 | 1 |
| Isn't there an em-train in the New York subway system? :-)
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| 276.2 | it's in there... | MYCRFT::PARODI | John H. Parodi | Mon Nov 17 1986 13:29 | 9 |
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From Webster's New Collegiate:
Entrain to put aboard a train -- to get aboard a train.
That's the second entry -- the first one has four other meanings.
JP
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| 276.3 | been reading too much of the GOT note | CACHE::MARSHALL | hunting the snark | Mon Nov 17 1986 13:44 | 13 |
| re .2:
> Entrain ... to get aboard a train.
shouldn't that be: "to board a train"?
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| 276.4 | | MYCRFT::PARODI | John H. Parodi | Mon Nov 17 1986 14:18 | 6 |
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Sorry. I was about to tell you to go complain to Dan'l -- but I should
have typed "...to go aboard a train."
JP
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| 276.5 | But seriously folks... | CLOSUS::TAVARES | John--Stay low, keep moving | Tue Nov 18 1986 10:19 | 1 |
| When you go hiking, do you entrail?
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| 276.6 | | SWSNOD::RPGDOC | Dennis the Menace | Tue Nov 18 1986 14:42 | 6 |
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RE: .5 "entrails"
In a group of hikers, what does being designated "sweep" entail?
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| 276.7 | DEPLANE! DEPLANE! | USMRM2::MGRACE | No Bozos | Thu Nov 20 1986 13:12 | 9 |
| "Deplane" has always made my flesh crawl, which is intensified by
my husband always giving me a dig in the ribs whenever it is uttered.
Those airplane folks sure are creative. Once, while my husband
and I were waiting to board, a clerk at the ticket counter made
an announcement to the effect of "please form a line in an orderly
manner so that we may EXTRADITE YOU MORE QUICKLY." (The caps are
my addition.) Of course, the clerk may have been correct: perhaps
we were in the company of a plane-load of criminals...
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| 276.8 | George of the Jungle embarked a lot. | DEBET::CANTOR | Dave Cantor | Fri Nov 21 1986 05:29 | 8 |
| Enship? Deship? Emboat? Deboat? Encar? Decar? Enhorse?
Do little children enback upon Daddy?
I suppose 'embark' and 'debark' are now used only to describe
what kids do just before they start climbing up a tree and just
after they finish climbing down.
Dave C.
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| 276.9 | Now listen up, youse guys | DRAGON::MCVAY | Pete McVay, VRO (Telecomm) | Fri Nov 21 1986 13:03 | 5 |
| re: .7
A friend of mine in the airline industry tells me that the plane
crews of some airlines are allowed to write their own safety speeches.
That explains a lot.
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| 276.10 | Debark? | ECLAIR::GOODENOUGH | Jeff Goodenough, IPG Reading-UK | Tue Nov 25 1986 08:05 | 2 |
| Re: .8 Is that a word? We say "disembark"
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| 276.11 | Egress, not to digress | FRSBEE::COHEN | Bowling for Towels | Tue Dec 09 1986 22:22 | 9 |
| re -1
Good question.
Many years ago P.T. Barnum used the following ploy in his sideshow
"See the world famous egress 25 cents."
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| 276.12 | It's windy & you have to hold on tight... | ANYWAY::GORDON | DeathTongue Fan -- Ack! | Thu Jan 22 1987 22:18 | 4 |
| There's always George Carlin's line:
Maybe some of you want to get *on* the plane, I want to get *in* the
plane!
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| 276.13 | _On_ is not necessarily _atop_. | APTECH::RSTONE | | Fri Jan 23 1987 11:24 | 5 |
| Would it help to consider that getting _on_ a plane, ship or a bus is
an abbreviated version of getting _on board_? Since a _plane_ is
short for _airplane_ or _aeroplane_ and a _bus_ is short for _omnibus_,
I see no harm in shortening the term for gettin aboard the particular
transportation device.
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| 276.14 | Let's get down... | APTECH::RSTONE | | Fri Jan 23 1987 11:27 | 8 |
| Re: .13
I am reminded of an old joke of my father's:
Q. How do you get down from an elephant?
A. You don't. You get down from a duck.
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| 276.15 | | TLE::SAVAGE | Neil, @Spit Brook | Fri Jan 23 1987 11:36 | 3 |
| Re: A. in .14:
Eider've expected that.
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| 276.16 | | BAEDEV::RECKARD | | Tue Feb 03 1987 07:11 | 1 |
| Enough fowl talk, let's get back to the topic of egrets.
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