Re: TERRORISM: And now the silliness starts

From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Thu Sep 13 2001 - 22:26:50 MDT


"Robert J. Bradbury" wrote:
> "No knives of any material allowed to be carried on board. Federal rules
> previously allowed up to a four-inch blades. Metal knives for food service
> would be banned also."
>
> That's great, that means when you pay $2000-3000 dollars for a
> business class international ticket, you are going to be sitting
> there in this nice fancy chair, with a nice cloth napkin draped
> over your tray table, with your nice glass of wine, cutting up
> a nice meal (by airline standards) with a chincy plastic knife.
>
> I understand why, but by the same logic, shouldn't the forks be
> plastic as well?

Being a bit of a barbarian, I use my teeth to cut my food when the
knives provided just don't cut it - say, when getting the last dregs of
meat off a bone. Will I have to check my incisors before boarding? ^_-



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