On Sun, 17 Mar 2013 14:09:30 -0600, BobW wrote:

On 3/17/2013 6:41 AM, Martin Gregorie wrote:
On Sat, 16 Mar 2013 21:17:26 -0700, chip.bearden wrote:

Cool. One card per turnpoint. Manually sorted/indexed for your
easy access. "Aww crap, can't find turnpoint #2 - it must've slipped
behind my back".

Using punched paper tape would solve that problem, Erik. Same
technology, different medium.

There's a problem: there's no stairwell in most gliders. I used to work
with paper tape and the stair-well is essential. If you get a large
roll tangled, e.g. drop it and have the centre fall out, the quick fix
is to hold one end, dump the rest down the stair well and wind it up
again. OTOH I can imagine loose tape in a cockpit trussing the pilot
like a turkey ready for Thanksgiving.


Thanksgiving?!? Wow. We colonials mostly presume youse guys are as
ignorant of our holiday as we are of Guy Fawkes' Day. :-)

The Thanksgiving Turkey is about the only traditional association between
a bird and a public holiday I can think of that still exists in the
anglophone world and no other bird is so often trussed for cooking.

Over here it used to be the Christmas Goose, but thats fading fast. The
Norfolk turkey farmers are pushing the Xmas Turkey really hard but it
hasn't yet achieved traditional status. That means your traditional
Thanksgiving nosh holds the iconic number one slot.


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