Tag: Airplane

  • RIP Leslie Nielsen

    Leslie Nielsen Caricature

    Leslie Nielsen passed away this week.  Everyone has been quoting his “Don’t call me Shirley” line from Airplane all week but I was more a fan of his Naked Gun series of movies as he was the star.

    Imagine a movie where a 50+ year old is the star, he has a hot girlfriend in Priscilla Presley, includes the master of disaster films, George Kennedy, and costared OJ Simpson when the public still loved and admired him. 

    A few of my favorite lines:

    Mimi Du Jour: Is this some kind of bust?
    Lt. Frank Drebin (Nielsen): Yes, ma’am, it’s very impressive, but we need to ask you a few questions.

    Lt. Frank Drebin (Nielsen): It’s the same old story. Boy finds girl, boy loses girl, girl finds boy, boy forgets girl, boy remembers girl, girl dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year’s Day.

    [Jane climbs a ladder as Drebin looks up] 
    Lt. Frank Drebin (Nielsen): Nice beaver! 
    Jane  [producing a stuffed beaver] Thank you. I just had it stuffed.

    Any other favorites?

  • Please find me the guy who bought this

    I spend some time traveling for work and end up on airplanes.  The worst part of the trip is the time from when they say stow your electronic devices until we actually reach the gate.  It seems that this part of the trip is longer than any other.   So in that long down time, I tend to read and reread SkyMall magazine.

    They have weird stuff in there but the weirdest has to be this thing.

    Big Foot the Garden Yeti
    Big Foot the Garden Yeti
    Does someone actually BUY this stuff that they have listed in the magazine for over a year.  Props to the first person who can provide evidence that this is sitting in your friends/neighbors yard somewhere in the world.