News and notes from around the interweb:
- Whippets are mostly illegal, right? Yet you can still earn and redeem points for them. Everything has a loyalty program, which first really hit me when I saw a blood bank devaluing theirs a decade ago, and first saw a marijuana and munchies delivery service offering rewards including a free eighth for participating in their refer-a-friend program.
- Credit score is now a dating app FICO isn’t all you need to know about someone but it does convey useful information.
- How Israel finally took out the man responsible for the hijacking of TWA 847 in 1985 – and the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut three years earlier.
- On a United Airlines flight from Seoul to San Francisco, a business class passenger reports waking up hungry and asking for food,
They reluctantly offered me a grilled cheese sandwich and some soup… “give me 6 minutes.” … 25 minutes later they politely dropped off this delicacy. Unfortunately they forgot the soup.
- These are… soft pretzels?
- Lufthansa is using artificial sharkskin to streamline airplanes
Based on the sandwich, it seems fortunate that they forgot the soup.
I wish slang wasn’t used in the title, it isn’t a good habit to assume a general readership knows such terms. Until I looked it up, all I knew about the first word was, “The whippet is a British breed of medium-sized dog”, and I doubt if anyone is banning them.
Whippet is a small sighthound. Whip-it is a brand of CO2 cartridge used to make whipped cream. Perhaps the spelling in the headline should be corrected.
More informative title would be “From Nitrous Oxide Whippets to…”
Asia-based airlines provide better food on demand for long haul economy passengers than U.S.-based do for business class.
Good on Israel for their success .
I knew that whippets are dogs that look like greyhounds. I had to find out why they are mostly illegal. As for the United Airlines “food”, with all the reports of what people get on United flights, I wonder why people continue to abuse themselves flying United instead of taking one of the other options.
Whippets are are cookie made by Dare. Dare Whippet Original cookies are a decadent classic. Made better with real chocolate, no artificial flavors and 0g trans fat.
Well I’m surprised that such a varied gathering doesn’t understand the decades-old nickname for nitrous oxide. Perhaps it’s best to avoid any other obvious-to-most terms like shakedown, rigged, or bat out of hell to avoid confusing or frightening people.
With the use of the word whippets, you can safely assume that Señor Leff is a child of the era of Nancy Reagan’s “Just say no” campaign on American TV and in American schools where kids got some class time to learn about the various reference terms to drugs being abused across the country.
@NoraJones Not CO2. N2O
But yes, Whip-it Cream Chargers.