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Blog Guy, I can’t remember the name of it, but you blogged about some city you called the “goofiest spot on earth.”
You mean Wackytown? That’s Krasnoyarsk, in Siberia. I put together tours there as part of my blog’s Goofy Travel series. Are you interested?
I’d love to see a place that’s that goofy, but I worry about getting there. Do they have a good airline?
Do they? Siberia’s Acme Airlines and Pedicures is state-of-the-art! Check out this photo of a ground crew refueling one of their planes for takeoff.
Uh, what’s up with those flames?
Just a little fuel spillage. Don’t look out the plane window if it bothers you.
What about their passenger terminal? My comfort is important to me when I travel.
Then you’ll love Acme. Say so long to tedious old boarding ramps, and say hello to convenient new “Vertical Access Enablers.”
I notice they have separate um, enablers to the first class and economy sections. Are all the enablers the same?
Of course not. The first class ones have been de-iced.
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Top: Firefighters use a foam gun to extinguish a fire during a joint training exercise between the Emergency Ministry and airport services at Yemelyanovo airport in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, February 10, 2011.
Left: Rescue workers enter a plane during an evacuation drill.
REUTERS photos by Ilya Naymushin
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The first class are treated like privileged pr**ks!
I thought WackyTown was different in EVERY aspect…
I am disappointed…
Plugging the competition Mr. B.? How could you? Oh sure Acme might have “Vertical Access Enablers” but do the passengers get to experience the joys of pushing the Acme jet to the runway as they do the BT-69s of BasAir? No, no they don’t. Acme ain’t all that wonderful now is it? Blllaaaah.
http://blogs.reuters.com/oddly-enough/20 10/05/11/flying-high-with-my-secret-care er/
After cooking the in-flight meals, catering staff board the aircraft to load the meals onto the service carts.
That does not look like the BT-69. I thought you’d have the market share on planes in such a wacky segment.
The flames will help to de-ice the enablers and warm your toes prior to take off and pedicure. Still, it just doesn’t compare to BasAir.
Wackytown transportation officials should partner with Mexican drug launchers to implement a new and improved tourist trebuchet transportation system.
Talk about your de-icing procedures, yikes!
See? That’s what happens when you offer fried turkey on a flight!
That is one big nozzle, though. Are they compensating for something?
@Spin I think you’re both right. As you can see in the top photo, after leaving the roach-infested kitchen, the food is sanitised using a flamethrower.
Acme are proud to only use cockroaches whose sole food source is in fact used toenail clippings. The roaches, after gourging themselves, are removed from the aircraft before passengers start boarding (as demonstrated in the second photo).
Interesting factoid – the ‘BT’ in Basler Aircraft means ‘Burnt Toenail’, when due to an unfortunate mis-communication, they started the practice of removing toenail clippings from seatpockets by using a flamethrower.
Spin, who is right? Shra. Always.
@Nosmo, I was under the impression the ‘BT’ stood for “Be careful, The duct tape holding the wing spar together is peeling off.”
One of my best friends leaves tomorrow for a 2.5-week vacation in Antartica. (It’s summer there, so the night temps should be 0 Farhrenheit or higher.) Mrs. Doc wouldn’t let me go along. You’d think he was going to Krasnoyarsk!
I should add, I suppose, that he’s going on a cruise on the National Geographic Explorer. Part of the cruise entails visits to Antartica, Elephant Island, etc. Cost? Approximately $20,000.00. I am so envious.
You left out the best part, Unca. “Puzhalsta” often menas “please, may I help you?’ “please, take this” or “please take one.” It also means “you’re welcome,” “it’s nothing,” “think nothing of it,” etc. (“Spasiba” means “thank you.”)
Puzhalsta?
Spasiba!
Puzhalsta.
Uh-oh Doc!
That could be construed as being educational.
Everyone else – clear the room!
@Shra: First class pay more, you do realise that don’t you?
Unca and Doc… I think my previous zaps woiuld be shamed by this one I am doling out especially for you guys…
ZAPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !
I learnt some Russian today…
This is a disappointment.
Shra, tase him, puzhalsta…I mean, please.
Ooooooooo.
That’s gonna leave a mark.
Pat down the cinders and have a doughnut, Doc.
Vodka immunizes against tasers.
HA HA Shra! Missed me! (You can tase my sister.)
Keep thinking that Doc, should help you heal and hopefully understand the true aim of this blog… which is NO LEARNING!!!
Fwd,show-offs ALL of them! Well, mostly all of them!#
CAM, dont see you doing anything, but you know what they say, kid with the Zapper and thou shall be zapped!
You know, I can’t help but look at the first photo and wonder why those guys are trying to put out a fire with high pressure cake frosting.
Vodka makes me laugh.
I laugh at the taser — Ha!
And Scotch is better.
~hic~
@69 … http://www.flymytoenails.com