Funny pic/gif thread...
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I don't get it. Luck be in the air tonight?
The I in AIR isn’t revealed but it is in IN.
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Looks like a Delta. Some don't know that Delta started as a cropdusting service in, surprise, the delta! They are still flying some of the same planes too if the airline still survives. I went to Hawaii to see my brother. Delta to Dallas, Braniff to Hawaii from there. Those Braniff jets were gorgeous inside and out. The Deltas had duck tape on them, not even the newer six hundred mile an hour tape we were using on race cars. The name was false advertising anyway, never got above 250 with it. Anyway, I wasn't happy to get on another Delta in Dallas to come home. Another wing seat and I looked over and saw a loose screw spinning around and a weld that I wouldn't have climbed into a bateau with a weld that bad. I figured we could do without the screw but I watched that damned weld from the time we were airborne until we set down in New Orleans.
Could have been worse I suppose. My brother was on a long flight watching screws zing out of the engine cowling!
Hu
SSDiver2112
Escott Cues
There was a popular song in WWI or two. The soldier claiming the deck of cards was his bible, his almanac, and I believe a few more things. It tells a good bit of history too.
Those cards aren't the oldest version, the oldest ones were rectangular and had white backs. There were always playing cards laying around and those white backs were the original calling and business cards.
Those corners look to be cut after leaving the factory, maybe a shaved deck.
Another bit of trivia, the kings, queens, and knaves represented real people. I forget the kings, none were arthur. One of the queens was said to be Joan of Arc despite her never being a queen that I remember. One of the knaves, later jacks, was lancelot, the only camelot charactor in cards. The knave went away first in the US where cards were often called by their first letter. Two k's were awkward.
My trivia for cards other than Titanic always called one the suicide king because of the sword pointed at his head. Might have been common parlance in his day.
Hu
This came up in a hunter safety class I attended some 50 years ago.
The instructor told us to keep a deck of cards in our packs in the event we got separated and lost, then asked the class the reason why. The reason being to keep your mind occupied and stave off panic, but one student replied, "Play solitare. Anybody that has ever played solitare knows as soon as you start the game, before you know it, somebody is standing behind you, telling you what card to play."
