[BITList] Open Letter From American Airlines Pilot

[David Harvey]

G'day Hugh

In AUSN, E&A and BI old flags of all descriptions, signal, house or
national, were cut up and used for cleaning brass work. Very efficient too.
I bet the modern synthetics don't do as good a job, but then again, who
cleans brass work today. What brass work?


Dave

On 1 October 2011 22:37, HUGH <chakdara at btinternet.com> wrote:

> **
> I can scarce forbear to comment. I read (addressed by some fical Yank, to
> some fictional Muslim about the latter's homeland) - "Do you pledge
> allegiance to its flag?"  What utter, creepy, bullshit.
>
> I've never pledged allegiance to a flag in my life, and never will.  A bit
> of cloth??? The Danes, who decorate wedding cakes with dozens of small
> Dannebrogs, use the actual flags for dusters when they wear out, as do we
> with whatever flags we choose to fly for whatever reason.  Ours flies from
> the top of a dead cactus-type thingy that looked as if it would appreciate a
> flag. The flag is rather woebegone, tattered and none too clean, as was its
> predecessor that was binned without a single bugle note.  So what would the
> fictional airline pilot make of the non-fictional me?
>
> Gie's a brekk.
>
> Hugh.
>
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