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

"George Patterson" wrote in message
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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.


I thought you'd agree if I put it that way.

Hey. Who the heck is this ZZZZooom person?

(I will continue to tell my kids not to fly in private planes (or drive)
with strangers.)

("Skylune" wrote)
Hey. Who the heck is this ZZZZooom person?


It's like playing baseball in the street when we were kids - using a tennis
ball instead of a baseball. It's your turn at the plate. You pick up the
green 'oversized' plastic Wiffle-ball bat and make your way to the manhole
cover, and eagerly await that first underhand pitch ...so you can park that
old tennis ball, two doors down, over the neighbor's pine tree.

"Holy cow."


Montblack
Some days it's just too easy! g

LMAO. What the...? (there are manhole covers in Minnesota?)

"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.

My daughter grew up believing almost anything someone told her, and
therefore was at times, very gullible.

I sat off on a mission of curing that problem, and working on a sense of
humor, too. For the longest time, I NEVER gave her the right answer the
first time. When pressed, I would tell the truth, but not until she asked.

It took a period of time for her to start to catch on, and then, I would
only lie to her on the first try, sometimes. She then would have to listen
and question what she was hearing, and decide if it was the truth, or not.

It was a lot of fun, and led to some very humorous situations, but as a
result, she is a quick thinker, and very astute judge of the truth, and of
character. I highly advise a try of your own on this, if you have an
unquestioning youngster.
--
Jim in NC

It was a lot of fun, and led to some very humorous situations, but as a
result, she is a quick thinker, and very astute judge of the truth, and of
character. I highly advise a try of your own on this, if you have an
unquestioning youngster.
--
Jim in NC

I do that with my kids also, they've come to expect the wrong answer first,
but I mix it up so I'm not so predictable. What they've learned is to think
for themselves first, then ask if they still aren't sure. It makes them
THINK and use their heads rather than just depending on someone to give them
the answer. It also teaches them to evaluate the answer that is given to
them rather than just blindly accepting it.

Jim in WI

Skylune wrote:

Hey. Who the heck is this ZZZZooom person?

(I will continue to tell my kids not to fly in private planes (or drive)
with strangers.)


He is the only person who posted in this forum that was less connected
to reality than you. Fortunately, he quit posting some time ago.

Matt

"Steve Foley" wrote in message
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There are a finite number of words, but an infinite number of numbers,
therefore one of the numbers MUST be named "bazillion"

That only follows if for every word, there is a number that word describes.

Which, of course, is not the case.

On Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:11:17 -0400, "Skylune"
wrote:

LMAO. What the...? (there are manhole covers in Minnesota?)

I always cover my manhole, no matter where I am.

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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After all the talk about not using "leading zeros" when making radio calls
referring to runways, I tried my darndest to omit those offending zeros
today.

To my surprise and dismay, my mouth has apparently developed an
"autopilot" mode that seemed to prohibit even the simplest changes to my
rote radio procedures. It literally took me FOUR TRIES to be able to
refer to our Runway 7 as "Runway SEVEN" -- not "Runway ZERO SEVEN."



Don't let some dyslexic bureaucrat's influence on the misguided youth in
this ng destroy all your years of *proper* usage. :-)

Avoiding the leading zero on a direction-based entity is unnatural and only
leads to confusion. FAA's own NACO chart-selection web site INCLUDES the
leading zero in the INDEX, when selecting your IAP plate, but then the
actual plate has the runway WITHOUT the leading zero.

When our dyslexic bureaucrat read the FAA's description: "Runways are
normally numbered in relation to their magnetic direction rounded off to the
nearest 10 degrees", he just assumed that 10 divided by 10 is "1"; seventy
divided by 10 was "7" (quite correctly, I suppose). So that's what he went
out and painted.

For some of the rest of us, "magnetic direction" implied, quite
understandably "magnetic direction as in:
magnetic-direction-as-used-for-navigation".

Zero-seven-zero divided by ten is still zero-seven, whether the zero is
painted there or not.