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Old Nov 11, 2011 | 8:44 am
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Originally Posted by KoKoBuddy
Watch out, you're about to fall off that high horse and you might get hurt.

Pan Am is a night time weekly soap opera. It's fluff.

Not every show has to be a "thinking" show like Mad Men. Sometimes, you just want to veg in front of the TV and look at pretty things for an hour.

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If you want to veg out, you should go all the way like I do and watch professional wrestling. Those guys are always pushing the stupidity/fluff envelope. Roland Barthes, one of the greatest French philosophers of this century wrote an elegant essay praising professional wrestling.

PS I too am a child of New York 60's and recall the excitement of flying/ going to Idlewild airport. I'll admit, the show does give a little of this flavor.

I invite everyone to see my post on TIA airlines:

http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/trave...-airlines.html

to hear about some really crazy FA's from back then.
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