Originally Posted by
xyzzy
Last night's (June 4, 2008) 11pm snooze cast on WNBC in NY had a segment on this. They said the idea of charging airline passengers by weight was, "...Being discussed on Internet chatrooms." A few minutes later, Jay Leno had a joke about this.
IRC? Now I'm starting to get nostalgic back to the days of 1996! I should call up WNBC or Jay Leno and ask what chatroom it was....