Bringing the twins home from school yesterday, I observed that a defunct cafe was soon to become an IHOP. Asked whether they knew “IHOP” stands for, one replied, “Pancakes!” while the other replied “Pancake house.” The best part of the conversation continued something like this...
Me: “It stands for ‘International House of Pancakes.’”
Maddie: “Yeah, we had some once and they had pretty good pancakes.”
Me: “Well, they’d better have pretty good pancakes if they have ‘pancake’ in their name.”
Lydia: “Heh, Bob Pancake.”
Thursday, December 22, 2005
Tuesday, December 13, 2005
Misplaced modifiers
From The Electric New Paper via Drudge Report
THEY were jetting off for a holiday in Kingston, Jamaica, and the drinks flowed freely during the ten-hour flight.
Intoxicated, the couple, who were seated in business class, decided to submit their membership for the 'mile-high club' in one of the toilets.
But the British Airways flight staff became suspicious after hearing cries of passion from the loo, and the randy couple was ordered to stop and return to their seats.
Randy quickly turned into angry.
Stunned passengers watched in horror as the couple fought with flight staff.
A passenger told The Sun: 'They were asked politely to return to their seats but went ballistic. They were shouting vile abuse and spitting at staff.'
Another said: 'The captain tried to calm them down but they were just as abusive to him.'
And despite being restrained with plastic handcuffs, the pilot decided he had no choice but to divert the 777 jet to Bermuda.
This gets me into quite a lather. How could The Electric New Paper see fit to print this? Just why was the pilot restrained with plastic handcuffs? It seems there was more going on aboard this jumbo jet than The Electric New Paper reports. Give us the full story!
THEY were jetting off for a holiday in Kingston, Jamaica, and the drinks flowed freely during the ten-hour flight.
Intoxicated, the couple, who were seated in business class, decided to submit their membership for the 'mile-high club' in one of the toilets.
But the British Airways flight staff became suspicious after hearing cries of passion from the loo, and the randy couple was ordered to stop and return to their seats.
Randy quickly turned into angry.
Stunned passengers watched in horror as the couple fought with flight staff.
A passenger told The Sun: 'They were asked politely to return to their seats but went ballistic. They were shouting vile abuse and spitting at staff.'
Another said: 'The captain tried to calm them down but they were just as abusive to him.'
And despite being restrained with plastic handcuffs, the pilot decided he had no choice but to divert the 777 jet to Bermuda.
This gets me into quite a lather. How could The Electric New Paper see fit to print this? Just why was the pilot restrained with plastic handcuffs? It seems there was more going on aboard this jumbo jet than The Electric New Paper reports. Give us the full story!
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