Tried to Call it "Runway 7" today...

we were making our way up the cost and Corpus
Christi calls with "30L, verify straight and level at 3000 feet."

Yep, without even thinking I keyed the mike and replied "30L Roger
Roger Roger"

Shouldn't it have been "affirmative, affirmative, affirmative, 30L" or
"Wilco, Wilco, Wilco, 30L"?

"Doug" wrote in message
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My 6 year old thought the guy in the tower is NAMED Roger :-) (Probably
has something to do with the fact thats what I told her). She has since
grown up not believing everything I tell her.


Which is a piece of parenting ALL of us should duplicate.

Gig 601XL Builder wrote:
"Doug" wrote in message
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My 6 year old thought the guy in the tower is NAMED Roger :-) (Probably
has something to do with the fact thats what I told her). She has since
grown up not believing everything I tell her.

Which is a piece of parenting ALL of us should duplicate.

What? Lieing to your kids?

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.

In article , Jim Logajan writes:

There is a wonderful website where umpteen definitions of indeterminate
numbers are provided. The URL is:

http://www.incompetech.com/gallimaufry/numbers.html

Here are some examples:


They had some good ones, but left out the biggest one - a godzillion.
Named after the giant lizard, a godzillion is the biggest possible
number - if you add one to it, it reaches a critical mass, and explodes
into a bunch of smaller numbers.

Lee K. Gleason N5ZMR
COntrl-G Consultants

On 20 Oct 2005 06:44:01 -0700, "150flivver"
wrote:

we were making our way up the cost and Corpus
Christi calls with "30L, verify straight and level at 3000 feet."

Yep, without even thinking I keyed the mike and replied "30L Roger
Roger Roger"

Shouldn't it have been "affirmative, affirmative, affirmative, 30L" or
"Wilco, Wilco, Wilco, 30L"?

Well it definitely shouldn't have been "Wilco" since I wasn't telling
him I "Will comply" with anything!

Yes, my typical response would have been "Affirmative, 30L" or more
likely "Affirmative, 30L straight and level at 3000"

But I had been playing in Mexico for too long, and for some reason
they used "Roger" a lot. And they pronounced it more like "Royer",
except there was a slightly different sound than a Y in there. It
just wasn't a G like we would say it. So, when in Rome...

And when I got back, I just did it without thinking that one time.
"Royer, royer, royer" said with a very jovial voice. I'm sure the
Corpus Christi controller thought we had been smoking or drinking
something.

In fact, just before I departed his airspace he asked me where 30L was
based. He wanted to know specifically which airport. I told him, but
never asked why he wanted to know, and I wasn't met by anyone when I
got home. Who knows what that was for?


Bill Strahan
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"George Patterson" wrote in message
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Gig 601XL Builder wrote:
"Doug" wrote in message
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My 6 year old thought the guy in the tower is NAMED Roger :-) (Probably
has something to do with the fact thats what I told her). She has since
grown up not believing everything I tell her.

Which is a piece of parenting ALL of us should duplicate.

What? Lieing to your kids?


If that's what it takes to make them not to believe everything you say is
gospel. Think of it this way. Do you want Skylune's or ZZZZooms children to
think for the rest of their lives that every thing their father tell them is
true?

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 04:17:16 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote in
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Dang, you wouldn't think such a minor thing would be so hard to change, but
after saying it one way 5.6 zillion-billion times, I just couldn't seem to
get the words out straight!

After flying a Piper for years, see what happens when you find
yourself flying a Cessna for the first time.

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 06:39:23 -0000, Jim Logajan
wrote:

"Jay Beckman" wrote:
"Jack Allison" wrote in
message ...
Jay Honeck wrote:
Dang, you wouldn't think such a minor thing would be so hard to
change, but after saying it one way 5.6 zillion-billion times
Wow, that's a lot of takeoffs/landing...you must have a gazillion
hours logged by now...and you were saying I'm flying a lot lately?
:-)
Jack,

If I've told you once I've told you a billion times: DON'T EXAGERATE!!

;O)

There is a wonderful website where umpteen definitions of indeterminate
numbers are provided. The URL is:

http://www.incompetech.com/gallimaufry/numbers.html

Here are some examples:

"eleventeen
I'm not sure how large this number is, but I'm pretty sure it is
between 11 and 21 inclusive. Nominally used to mean any absurd use of
a specific number. e.g. "I had to enter a product activation code of
'A ampersand g g L P 7 eleventeen something...'"

umpteen
This number is relatively small (usually under 30). It is used in
conjunction with a specific task (or task iteration). e.g. "I told you
for the umpteenth time - 'No swimming with the sharks!'"

zillion
Any incomprehensibly large number. For a five-year-old $100 is about
equal to "a zillion dollars". For an average adult, this number is
certainly greater than 100,000... but it depends on context. e.g.
"That company charges zillions if you want them to consult."

bazillion
More than a zillion... possibly as small as 2 zillion.
(can also be spelled bizillion or bahzillion [rare].)"

(And so on - the web site has oodles more.)

Here in Texas, you hear the term "buttload" a lot.

As in "I've got a buttload of things to do today."

I sometimes joke that I know how big a buttload is: It's 128 gallons.

No one gets it, but the old English system of gallons, bushels,
barrels, etc. had "butt" in there as 128 gallons, so it must be
equivalent to a buttload.

I wonder if it originated with "boatload" and got *******ized to
"buttload"


Bill Strahan
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Bill wrote:
In fact, just before I departed his airspace he
asked me where 30L was based. He wanted
to know specifically which airport. I told him,
but never asked why he wanted to know, and
I wasn't met by anyone when I got home. Who
knows what that was for?

I wish they'd explain questions like that. Recently, when I returned to
my home airport after being gone for about 1.5 hrs, Ground control asked
us what time we had taxied out earlier that morning. Never explained why
either. ??

Gig 601XL Builder wrote:

If that's what it takes to make them not to believe everything you say is
gospel. Think of it this way. Do you want Skylune's or ZZZZooms children to
think for the rest of their lives that every thing their father tell them is
true?

Point and match.

George Patterson
Drink is the curse of the land. It makes you quarrel with your neighbor.
It makes you shoot at your landlord. And it makes you miss him.