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From: paul@pilchuckDataio.UUCP (Paul Brownlow, Data I/O  Redmond, WA)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: Re: Airline acronyms
Message-ID: <194@pilchuckDataio.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Jan-86 17:01:15 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  2 17:01:15 1986
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> > 
> > Here are some airlines we love to fly on:
> > 
> >   TWA       - Try Walking Across
> >   SABENA    - Such A Bloody Experience Never Again
> >   PIA       - Please Inform Allah
> >   AI        - Allah Informed
> >   (and the now renamed  BOAC   - Better On A Camel)
> > 
> >   What can you come up with?      
> > 
> > -----
> >                                 Pavan Vohra
> > 			 arpa: vohra@sally.UTEXAS.EDU
> 
> There's always the old favorites:
> 
> 	Piedmont <---> Piedmonster
> 	U.S. Air <---> U.S. Scare
> 	People's Express <---> Peoples Distress

Also:
	United <==> Untied
	Western <==> Worstern
	Cascade <==> Crashcade
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Paul Brownlow

"You've got to ask yourself one question: 'do I feel lucky?'
  Well, do ya punk?"