Letters posted here are associated with the following article:

8
Letters
Thursday, January 18, 2007 12:00 AM

Flying dog

The letters thread is now closed.

View:
Thursday, January 18, 2007 11:36 AM

That Was Good

Seeing the dog just sort of float up in the background. Funny stuff.

Thursday, January 18, 2007 12:08 PM

Not Funny

The pilot should have practiced this maneuver before subjecting the dog to a potentially injurious return to zero-G, or better yet, not have done this in the first place. If you can't smoothly transition from 0 to 1 G, don't commit animal cruelty (hey, that rhymes! --easy to remember). The telling aspect, besides seeing the poor dog get slammed back against the interior, is the pilot's headset being partially dislodged from his (somewhat empty) head.

--A professional aviator, airplane and dog owner.

Thursday, January 18, 2007 03:21 PM

Grab Hold in Earnest Of A Sense of Humor

You miserable, dog-owning, insufferable TWIT.

Thursday, January 18, 2007 04:21 PM

Again with the name calling.

Rob, since when are you an authority on humor?

As for the 0 to 1g transition, I wonder what ask the pilot would have to say about this.

Thursday, January 18, 2007 08:50 PM

I Think "Patrick" Would Say Some Species Of...

..."Hey Gordon, why don't you go suck some nice dick?"

And then jump out of the fuckin' plane, motherfucker.

Thursday, January 18, 2007 11:39 PM

The insufferable miserable twit replies:

I'm looking forward to more of your clear-headed, insightful, humorous and clever come-backs, Mr. Anderson. You floor me with your invective; I am rendered weak-kneed and retort-less in the face of your elegant, yet insidious commentary.

I like Chomsky, too.

Friday, January 19, 2007 10:09 AM

what's so funny?

As another pilot and dog owner, I did not find Flying dog particularly funny. If I pulled this kind of stunt I would likely have been rewarded with vomit all over the cockpit. 0 gravity is disconcerting for humans too - just ask 'astronaut' and Senator Orrin Hatch. And Rob's initial and subsequent comments were interesting in a juvenile kind of way. Obviously someone whose lack of vocabulary is exceeded only by his infantile sense of humor.

Friday, January 19, 2007 02:42 PM

The Moronic Inferno

Blows its stack!!

Most Active Letters Threads

705

The commendably missing element from Obama's speech

There was no pretense that human rights is our goal, or the likely outcome, in escalating the war
688

Obama's exceedingly familiar justifications for escalation

The "new" approach to Afghanistan touted by White House officials seems quite old
440

The face of rotted Washington

Evan Bayh demands more debt-financed war - fought by others - while boasting that he's a stern "deficit hawk."
326

Yes, it's Obama's war now

An uninspiring speech sells a dubious policy, but progressives who feel betrayed have only themselves to blame
209

Bigotry wins in Switzerland

By voting to ban the construction of minarets, Switzerland apes the most extreme intolerance in the Muslim world

View all »

Letters Help

Currently in Salon