Media idiocy

[Unisaw]

I have KING 5 news playing in the background.  The weekend anchor was covering the FedEx aircraft fire at the Ft. Lauderdale airport.  My ears perked up when she said the pilots were able to eject.  Huh, I never knew MD-10s were equipped with ejection seats.

[Fly320s]

New feature installed by FedEx.

[Perd Hapley]

New feature installed by FedEx.

Parafreight.Or would they just call it FallEx?

[Fly320s]

Parafreight.Or would they just call it FallEx?

FedEject?  FedExEx?  ExFedEx?

[Unisaw]

FedEx must have installed self-healing aluminum skin as well.  In the film, the aircraft skin above the cockpit is clearly intact.  I guess it wasn't dramatic enough to say the crew crawled through a window and descended on a rope.

[230RN]

Sounds like another inappropriate use of the thesaurus.  They think "similar" or "related" words meant to stimulate thinking (which is what tthe thesaurus is for) were actually synonyms.

I'm surprised they didn't have them "spew" from the plane... or "be banished".  Work backwards from this:

http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/eject?s=t

 

[RocketMan]

"Hello, KING5, you screwed up the report on the FedEx plane fire.  Ain't no ejection seats in those old DC-10 freighters."
"But, but, but that's what the AP wrote!"

[Hawkmoon]

Sounds like another inappropriate use of the thesaurus.  They think "similar" or "related" words meant to stimulate thinking (which is what tthe thesaurus is for) were actually synonyms.

I'm surprised they didn't have them "spew" from the plane... or "be banished".  Work backwards from this:

http://www.thesaurus.com/browse/eject?s=t

That's just one of the unintended consequences of the publishing industry's move to reformat thesauri into "Thesaurus in Dictionary Form." Once you recast a thesaurus into a list of words, it becomes functionally indistinguishable from a dictionary of synonyms. I currently have six real thesauri on my desk, ranging from a hard-cover edition to a paperback version of the hardcover edition, to a somewhat smaller version of the paperback ... and then three copies of a smaller version that was published a number of years ago by PocketBooks. I don't use them as often now as I used to, but IMHO a real thesaurus is indispensible to anyone who wants to write.

[HeroHog]

That model was a BOTTOM ejecting unit...

[230RN]

That model was a BOTTOM ejecting unit...

LOL !

That's just one of the unintended consequences of the publishing industry's move to reformat thesauri into "Thesaurus in Dictionary Form." Once you recast a thesaurus into a list of words, it becomes functionally indistinguishable from a dictionary of synonyms. I currently have six real thesauri on my desk, ranging from a hard-cover edition to a paperback version of the hardcover edition, to a somewhat smaller version of the paperback ... and then three copies of a smaller version that was published a number of years ago by PocketBooks. I don't use them as often now as I used to, but IMHO a real thesaurus is indispensible to anyone who wants to write.

Twue, twue, vewy twue.