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Friday, October 26, 2007 12:00 AM

Ask the pilot

Do airplanes make you fart more? What happened to the dog hair on my suitcase? The pilot lets us in on readers' probing questions.

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  • Saturday, October 27, 2007 03:05 AM

    Hilarious!

    column AND letters from readers. lol

    Re: dog hair, there is a bald guy in baggage handling in Santa Fe who collects the hair on bags to make a hairpiece.

    Re: Swiss glaciers, animals and birds do things that make surface snow or ice unappetizing and unhealthy. Do you eat off the lawn?

    In a moving car during an earthquake, unless it is huge you do not feel it. The motion of the car and its suspension swamps the movement of the earth. This happened to me once; the radio announced the earthquake but I could not feel it.

    If the plane did not crash with serious injuries, it was not a near death experience. A good landing is any that you walk away from.

    Patrick is right, most of those questions are beyond answering.

    Do you have any more? Great column.

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