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Old Oct 19, 2007 | 5:22 am
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Originally Posted by James S
At first I thought it looked like chalk on a blackboard but then my colleague came up with a more apt metaphor: the devil was cutting two lines of Columbia's finest across across his blue glass coffee table (well, he lived in LA for a while!).

This is OT of course because I don't think any BA jets fly high enough over London to leave contrails.
I saw the Shuttle coming back from a mission one night about 5 years ago from my balcony in AUS. One the radio guys described it as like watching someone drawing an arc on the sky with an orange highlighter which was pretty apt. Then he pointed out they landed in Florida 20 minutes later - a trip that would have taken us all afternoon by commerical jet.
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