Hah! Timothy Collinson (03 Dec 2019 19:02 UTC)
Re: [TML] Hah! Bruce Johnson (03 Dec 2019 21:07 UTC)
Re: [TML] Hah! Timothy Collinson (04 Dec 2019 12:26 UTC)
Re: [TML] Hah! Bruce Johnson (04 Dec 2019 22:29 UTC)
Re: [TML] Hah! Ewan (08 Dec 2019 11:36 UTC)
Re: [TML] Hah! Alex Goodwin (09 Dec 2019 18:03 UTC)
Re: [TML] Hah! Ewan (09 Dec 2019 19:53 UTC)
Re: [TML] Hah! Phil Pugliese (09 Dec 2019 20:43 UTC)
Re: [TML] Hah! Jeff Zeitlin (09 Dec 2019 23:50 UTC)
Re: [TML] Hah! shadow@xxxxxx (11 Dec 2019 07:34 UTC)
Re: [TML] Hah! Alex Goodwin (11 Dec 2019 07:42 UTC)
Re: [TML] Hah! Phil Pugliese (11 Dec 2019 20:42 UTC)

Re: [TML] Hah! Alex Goodwin 11 Dec 2019 07:41 UTC

Well, either still focused on flying, or "unrecoverable dropkick" (to
quote the kindest thing she called this bloke).  Not sure, not really
worried I don't know.

On 11/12/19 5:34 pm, shadow at shadowgard.com (via tml list) wrote:
> On 9 Dec 2019 at 4:05, Alex Goodwin wrote:
>
>> "Can't you book a flight?"
>>
>> "Umm... to what airport?  And I still have to take all my tools and
>> parts - that's about a tonne of stuff - with me. If you want me to
>> take off tomorrow, I'll be travelling and working over the weekend -
>> you'll have to talk to the boss and get his ok."
>>
>> "You just said you weren't flying"
> "Take off" does have the meaning she used in much of the Us. The
> American must have been the equivalent of an "upper class twit" to
> not be familiar with that usage.
>
> Or he just was still focused oon flying and wasn't paying attention.
>
>
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