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“Although it was only a shoe box with a rectangle of midnight blue felt lining the bottom, inside the box were two eagle feathers passed down by her great-grandfather before they became illegal to keep, half of a heart from her best-friend-forever necklace she shared with Libby Barrett, an old lace valentine her grandma Penshine had made as a girl, and three smooth stones.”
“One minute my father was standing in the English department mail room, taking the latest edition of Transcendentalist Scholar out of the box marked ADJUNCT FACULTY.”
“A tentacle extruded to take them, hesitated, then turned into a dainty little white hand complete with pink-painted fingernails to remove the box from his palm.”
“Tom, Caddie, and Warren Woodlawn had perched on the side of the box stall watching Robert Ireton and Tom Hill, the hired men, at their milking, and they had all helped with the feeding and cleaning of the stalls.”
“Then Mr. Ready had said, “May I?” and pointed to the box of toys.”
““I could light the gas,” she says, glancing first at the box of wooden matches on the windowsill and then at the long-toothed expression of the wall heater, as if combustion might take place before her eyes.”
“The sign on the box read: “Malcolm's Poultry Farm,100baby chickens.””
“Guedioura met a fine Ronald Zubar cross on the edge of the box and took two touches before unleashing a left-foot shot over Craig Gordon to secure a well-deserved win for the home side.”
“Isians did not waste their time searching for cloths that may have wrapped the body of Osiris, nor did they consider it important to find splinters of the box in which he was confined.”
“In the center of the box itself stood a small cardboard packing crate with airholes in its side, spiders spilling from the holes as the sunlight hit them.”
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Codenames for top-secret places and things.
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"Let's go strap on the ole air'chine ...
Aviation, especially aerobatic aviation, has been quite aptly described as the "most fun you can have with your clothes on". There are a ton of colorful and cryptolexical words that have evolved i...
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oroboros Professional pilot slang for the flight simulator they must periodically (usually every six or nine months) visit, wherein they must thrash, sweat and strain with the aircraft equipment malfunctions, foul weather and Air Traffic Controller screw-ups that their sadistic Sim Instructor (chuckling "heh, heh")inputs at his panel in the rear of the simulated cockpit. The box can be a real E-ticket ride. Mounted on hydraulic struts/actuators that can produce pitch, roll and yaw, they are a treat to watch in action; a WHOLE LOT better than experiencing the reality from the inside!
Obviously, simulators save airlines money and are invaluable for practicing emergency procedures (see red box items and inculcating habit patterns that will serve a pilot in a real-world emergency.
Still, most pilots look forward to their time in "the box" with as much enthusiasm as they do going to the dentist for a root-canal! Nov 3, 2008