Bill Hale wrote:

4. This was a pretty sane debate, compared to, for example
rec.music.opera. Over there, at least 3/4 of the messages
would diss the combatants sexual orientation!!

People interested in opera rarely are forced to meet their newsgroup counterparts.
Any of us could run into other posters pretty much any time (after all, airplanes
*do* allow us to travel extensively). And with the FAA and landings databases, we
can find out where that other SOB is.

You really don't want to **** off someone who knows how airplanes work, has a
set of tools, and knows where your plane lives.

George Patterson
Battle, n; A method of untying with the teeth a political knot that would
not yield to the tongue.