>>>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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>Truly. Flying in the 9/12 world is an unsettling experience. Not because you worry about the plane being hijacked or used as a bomb but because the whole travel experience has been debased. If you take off on time and land on time and aren't overly hassled by the TSA (stands for Barney Fife and Associates), that's considered a successful flight at the moment. We go to the airport now expecting the worst -- delays, long lines, a general ambiance of anxiety dialed up to 11. Taking our shoes off and placing them in gray tubs to be scanned for bombs. Take off your belt, sir, it's setting off the metal detector. Please step back through. Thank you. Please step BACK and walk towards me again. Thank you and have a nice flight. Kafka must be smiling merrily in his grave.
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>We constantly speculate whether something like 9/11 will happen again. Is there any question? Is there any question at all? Look what they've done to us already.

Fortunately, I don't fly any these days. My sympathy to those who do.