It’s AYCYAS! – where too much is never enough!
Stop me if you’ve heard this one:
The flight-crew and passengers of a commercial airliner are stricken with food poisoning, and the only hope of a safe landing lies in the hands of a helicopter pilot who hasn’t flown in years, after a traumatic experience in Vietnam…
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#1 by Mr. Rational on August 1, 2010 - 3:59 pm
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So, if you had another entry planned for the roundtable but couldn’t resist this one, does that mean we have a chance of getting TWO entries from you?
(Good choice, by the way. A perfectly-timed followup to Zero Hour!)
#2 by lyzard on August 1, 2010 - 4:26 pm
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Oh, yes, indeed – but not until the end of the month, I should think. I’m intending to follow up this piece of overkill with another piece of overkill; tag-teaming with myself, if you like. But it means I’ve got a lot to get through before I can post.
(Glad you don’t seem to feel it is overkill!)
#3 by Luke Blanchard on August 2, 2010 - 1:18 am
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Regarding the passengers-with-medical-conditions trope, in the British film Broken Journey (1948), about a plane crash, one of the characters is a man in an iron lung.
#4 by Braineater on August 2, 2010 - 10:12 am
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I guess he picked the wrong day to stop… uhh… everything.
Is he the character that must gamely pilot the plane in for a landing? I’d pay to see that.
#5 by lyzard on August 2, 2010 - 2:06 am
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I am amused, although not in the least surprised, to hear it.
#6 by Cabal on August 2, 2010 - 7:08 am
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In unison: “It’s an entirely different movie.”
Ahh… better. Now, where were we?
#7 by Braineater on August 2, 2010 - 10:12 am
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Can you imagine remaking this today? “All we have to hope for is that one of them knows how to fly a plane, and… had the tiny bag of pretzels instead of the peanuts. Damned ergot poisoning!”
#8 by supersonic on August 5, 2010 - 12:30 pm
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Since nowadays you can pretty much land an airliner by pushing two buttons, it would be pretty hard to remake.
#9 by The Rev. on August 2, 2010 - 11:59 am
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You know, I could maybe understand having a hard time choosing lamb chops vs. halibut. However, lamb chops vs. chicken pot pie? How is that a hard choice? Why did all those people choose the latter??
I just don’t get it.
#10 by Read MacGuirtose on August 2, 2010 - 3:19 pm
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Meh, again, I would have chosen the chicken pot pie. Just not a fan of lamb. (Also not a fan of food poisoning, but then, I wouldn’t have known I was going to get that…)
#11 by Baron Scarpia on August 3, 2010 - 11:23 am
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I’m vegetarian. I would thus avoid the game of culinary Russian roulette. And probably starve whilst making bitter, bitter comments about the catering.
(On the other hand, I can’t fly a plane, but how hard can it be?)
#12 by lyzard on August 2, 2010 - 4:29 pm
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I imagine today we’d have peanut-contaminated something and most of the passengers in anaphylactic shock.
So, Rev – I see the [*cough, cough*] Lamb Council got to you, too.
#13 by The Rev. on August 3, 2010 - 8:27 am
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Not at all, dear! I just think delicious, nutritious lamb would be the meal of choice over a gluey, starchy pot pie. Such a treat lamb is, when compared to the alternative! I think you would agree that it’s the superior meal in all ways!
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(Please agree. They’ve got my cat!)
#14 by lyzard on August 3, 2010 - 5:10 pm
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OH MY— Uh, I mean, yes of course you would have the LAMB. Everyone should have the LAMB. Nothing is superior to LAMB. Everyone should spend a great deal of money on LAMB. Eat LAMB whenever possible!
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(Did that help?)
#15 by The Rev. D.D. on August 4, 2010 - 6:50 am
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……………………………….OK I’m clear. Yes, that did help. Thank you. The cat would thank you, but he’s too busy licking himself so he can hork up a nice fat juicy hairball later. Plus, the whole “doesn’t speak or understand our language and can’t type” thing. You know how cats are.
Curse you Lamafia (Lambafia?)! CURSE YOOOOOOOU!!!!
And eat more lamb!
#16 by Braineater on August 4, 2010 - 1:43 pm
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Hmmm. Either your cat is an underachiever, you’re in denial, or the International Cat Cabal is also forcing your silence.
(Maybe they’re in cahoots with the Lamb Council. “Feed your cat more lamb!”)
#17 by supersonic on August 5, 2010 - 12:33 pm
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I’m told that lamb is what they recommend to people with unknown food allergies… the idea is, if you don’t know what the problem food is, you scale back your diet to stuff that people have been eating since the stone age and nobody on Earth is allergic to, and lamb tops that list.
#18 by Luke Blanchard on August 3, 2010 - 3:12 am
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Braineater, in Broken Journey the plane crashes crossing a high mountain range at the start of the film. Midway through the movie the guy in the iron lung sacrifices his life by tricking the radio operator into using a battery from his iron lung to power the radio to contact help.
#19 by Braineater on August 3, 2010 - 12:44 pm
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“Thanks for trying, Jim, but the voltage turned out to be all wrong. Anyway, here’s your battery back, Jim… Jim??!”
Noble though it may be, it seems to me that approach was all wrong: they could have used him as a toboggan, and… and… oh, never mind. Pass the lamb.
#20 by Darkwing on August 4, 2010 - 7:11 pm
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Funny, I don’t think I’ve ever had lamb. But I’m sure my cats would love it. Well I think it’s time we all agree that flying is incredibly hazerdous, and that only safe food on a flight is lamb. I assume the beef would have mad cow disease and make anyone who eats it into a crazed cannabal. Hey, that sounds like a movie right there!
#21 by lyzard on August 4, 2010 - 7:58 pm
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I had an embarrassing giggling fit during my flight to Africa some years back, when I discovered that the in-flight meal was built around…the SALMON MOUSSE!!!!!!
#22 by Mark Hawley on August 4, 2010 - 10:25 pm
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I’d say the person in charge of meals had a real sense of humour! Just serving fish during a flight would be enough to get certain people to think of food poisoning, but to have it be that…
#23 by lyzard on August 4, 2010 - 11:02 pm
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Coming on the back of several months’ non-stop vaccinating, there was definitely a sense of being unable to outrun my destiny about it.