Left Coast Sports Babe

Dick Cheney is blaming Congress for “failing struggling automakers.” Isn’t this like blaming fans who didn’t buy tickets for failing the Detroit Lions?

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Or, isn’t blaming Congress for failing struggling automakers like failing the RNC for spending more money on Sarah Palin’s clothes.

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Continental Airlines is offering to reroute passengers who were on their flight that veered over 2000 feet off the runway and smashed into a ravine. No word on if they will credit anyone with that extra frequent flyer mile.

And the now 4-11 Seattle Seahawks knocked the New York Jets out of the playoffs Sunday.  While this is satisfying to the team, for most of the frustrated Seattle fans it’s just lipstick on a pigskin. 

This is from another very funny friend, Jim Barach, wish I had written it. 

“Lynne Cheney is planning to write a biography about James Madison. That means she will have written a book about the man who wrote the Constitution while being married to the man who shredded it.”

There’s talk of doing a reality show about the automakers bailout.  Unfortunately the title “Deal or No Deal” is already taken.

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And there is a new reality show premiering December 27,  on Fox.  Called “Smile, you’re under arrest”  where they play pranks on criminals before arresting them.   No word as to whether the show was shot on location in Washington DC, Illinois, or on Wall Street.

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Cloris Leachman will be the grand marshall of the 120 year old Rose Parade. Apparently they asked John McCain first but he demurred in favor of a “younger babe.”

Caroline Kennedy’s wish to be appointed as the junior Senator from New York is causing some controversy. Apparently there is resistance to the idea of having someone get Hillary Clinton’s seat just because of their family name.

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Many New Yorkers feel that the open Senate seat should not go to Caroline Kennedy just because of her name. Instead, they feel a more deserving choice would be Andrew Cuomo.

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Detroit newspapers are going to a three day in print, four day online formula, so subscribers will only get the print edition on Thursday, Friday and Sunday. Well, at least it will save readers any potential Monday trauma from getting Lions’ results on their doorstep.

Okay, today is something different – airline acronyms.  None of these is original, many have been around for a long time.  And some have outlasted the airlines they stand for.  But most of them are amusing.  I collected them together for a post on Tripso.com and am posting them here.  For holiday enjoyment and cheerful sour grapes while traveling.

And the post was inspired by a flight attendant who watched several TSA agents doing nothing while a father struggled to get a stroller into the X-Ray machine.    – Her comment “Now you know why they call them “Thousands Standing Around.”

ALITALIA – Always Late in Takeoff – Always Late in Arrival

BOAC – Better on a Camel

BA – (British Airways)  Bloody Awful

Delta –  Directs Everyone’s Luggage to Atlanta

or  – Doesn’t Ever Leave the Airport.

or – Don’t Expect Luggage to Arrive

EL AL – Every Landing, Always Late.

PAN AM  – Plan on Arriving Nervewracked and Mad

TACA – Take a Chance Airline

TAP  Air Portugal  –  Take Another Plane

TWA – Try Walking Across

or – Took Wrong Airline

US Air – Unfortunately, Still Allegheny in Reality

UTA – Unlikely to Arrive

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Finally a few nicknames:

USeless Air or US Scare,  Untied,  Northworst, Southworst, Aeroflop, (and Mapleflop for Air Canada.)

And one sent in by a Tripso reader.

“Northwest Airlines has been known as Cobra Airlines, because they could strike at any time.”

President Bush has been taking some criticism for all the species he has tried to take off the Endangered Species list.  In his defense, think of all those he has added- like the middle class.

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As the Green Bay Packers lost to the Houston Texans (!),  Packers fans muttered about what would have happened if Aaron Rodgers was Brett Favre.  But then as the New York Jets lost to the San Francisco 49ers, perhaps some of them realized, Brett Favre is no longer Brett Favre.

Bad news today for the University of Washington, where the Huskies just completed an 0-12 season.  Good news,  the 0-12 season is over.  Detroit Lions fans are wondering how they apply for Pac 10 membership.

Bad news in November,  in that the number of Americans who do not have jobs, but who are  now not even  looking for work,  skyrocketed.  Good news, that number will soon include President Bush.

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And why Americans want a college playoff system and don’t trust the BCS, example 354, (at least).  Okay, so today the number 1 ranked team – Alabama – played number 2, – Florida, but Florida was favored, and won.  Then number 4, Oklahoma, played number 12 Missouri, and won.  Number 3 Texas was idle.

And the BCS is proudly proclaiming that they have the teams they expected in the national championship…. both with one loss.    And the only Division 1 undefeated teams, Utah and Boise State?  Nowhere in sight.   (Not to mention Penn State, USC  and Texas Tech, also one loss teams, out of the running.)   If Barack Obama had run on a college football playoff platform no telling how big the landslide might have been.