>>>If somebody undermines the award by giving one to Crunchy or lampoons it by calling it the "Rick and Marcia's Buddies Award" (names chosen for illustration only,) you simply refer to the community decision.
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>>>Crunchy? Nah, you mis-heard, JB's nickname in the Crew is 'Grumpy'. You can be 'Doc'. Mike Cole is Sneezy (since all that hay in Iowa must surely bother his sinuses). I'm "Crazy"....as in "Crazy" for Hayden Panatierre.
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>>>I was on plane from Washington D.C. back to PA tonight, and shouted out, "damn, I could be home watching Heroes right now!!!" ;)
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>>You shouted on a plane in the post 9-11 environment! You are crazy. <g> Be glad the didn't arrest you.
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>Worse - they'd just keep him waiting endlessly in one of those waiting rooms with a TV that's permanently hooked into Faux news :).
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>Really... is it a law? About 80% of those semi-public places (breakfast lounges in hotels, bank lobbies, various waiting rooms) run Fox News, maybe 15% MSNBC, and the rest may run any local stuff that comes along. Or was I completely lucky?

I haven't flown in quite awhile, so I couldn't comment on the airport lounges. It seems that some of the bigger place have a choice of news channels in various locations.