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[Leo Enticknap]

Interesting also that they know where you'll be able to sit on the plane but do not know how long the trip is.

We know from Southwest's difficulties over Christmas that their IT systems can be a little, shall we say, idiosynchratic!

They likely know where I'm able to sit on the plane because I paid extra for that. I bought the early boarding supplement, because it guarantees that I won't have to gate check my carry-on. When traveling for work, if my checked bag (if I'm going to be OOT long enough to need to bring one) goes missing, then it's an annoyance, but not a tragedy: I can always buy some cheap and nasty clothes from the local Walmart on arrival. They won't get me onto the runway at National Fashion Week, but they would prevent me from being arrested for public nudity. But if I have to gate check the bag containing my laptop and other essentials and that goes missing, I'm dead in the water at my destination. At $25 per leg, a regular Southwest ticket plus that still usually works out significantly cheaper than what I would need to buy from the other airlines to be guaranteed to board early enough not to have to gate check my carry-on.

[Randy Stankey]

176 is one more than 175.

In the same way, bars in Pennsylvania are required to close at or before 2:01 a.m.

[Harold Hallikainen]

I was thinking that perhaps it's a round number in km, but it's not (283 km). An even 300 km would be 186 miles, which is sort of close. Maybe it's an even number of light-years.

Interesting also that they know where you'll be able to sit on the plane but do not know how long the trip is.

[Leo Enticknap]

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I wonder why 176 miles is the threshold above which it is permissible to get yourself wankered at 30,000 feet? Seems like a strange and arbitrary number.

That having been said, it's news to me that Southwest even operates flights that short, unless they are on routes that go over mountains or water for which making the same trip on the ground would take a lot longer, even for allowing for airport formalities. The shortest Southwest flight I've ever taken was from Ontario, CA, to Las Vegas, which is around a 220 mile drive. It's airborne for about 30 minutes. Once you factor in getting to and from airports and the formalities at airports, from home to standing in line for my connection at LAS took slightly longer then driving from home to an address on The Strip (assuming clear traffic). I have a hard time believing that anyone in their right mind would want to fly such a short distance point to point.

[Jim Cassedy]

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[Randy Stankey]

The telephone number "555-1212" is for telephone number information. If you're over forty, you'll probably catch that instantly.

The telephone area code "404" is for Atlanta, GA but it's also the HTTP error code for "Not Found." You'll probably only catch that one if you're under forty.

So, if the article is, indeed, real, it's more like 1,500 men ended up talking to a this woman, instead:

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[Leo Enticknap]

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I knew that Atlanta was a somewhat cosmopolitan place ... but bestiality?!

[Mark Gulbrandsen]

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[Leo Enticknap]

Continuing on the same theme...

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[Leo Enticknap]

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Having a name like that is a bit of a challenge if you want to be taken seriously as an anti-death penalty campaigner...

[Leo Enticknap]

There was a couple in the very back row right below the port engaged in a rather frenzied sex act. [...] The movie was one of Woody Allen's yawnfests...

Was there about a 40-year age gap between the two partners in the back row?

In any case, their antics would have added the rear surround channels to Allen's mono movie...

[Tony Bandiera Jr]

Many years ago when I worked at the Laemmle Grande, I was told by floor staff to go to Theatre 1's port and look down. There was a couple in the very back row right below the port engaged in a rather frenzied sex act.

I had to seriously resist the urge to grab the film running above my head (platter was on the operator's side), tearing it just to trigger the house lights, thus getting the attention of the 10 other patrons... (The movie was one of Woody Allen's yawnfests, so I cut them some slack.)

That couple was later banned from the theatre as they had left a "mess" behind which thankfully was not my duty to clean up.