Kings of FlyerTalk
 

You know, I was just looking at the total number of messages, and there are just over 5,000 total messages in all of Flyertalk (that's a rough estimate, I did not use a calculator, maybe someone who has more spare time than I could add them up ...). Of those 5,000 messages Catman has 661 and Rudi has 878 ... that 25% of the total between them (over 10% each)! I knew you guys talked a lot ... but I didn't realize it was that much!

I did not count how many messages I had on
FLyerTalk but thanks for the heads up Beckles.

Don't know about Rudi, but I see myself
as the "cat court jester" of FLyerTalk (But
I do provide relevent information... unless
the first winner from the ad hoc meeting!)
CATMAN

I am Rudi and Catman! I just love talking to myself, don't you agree? Yes, I agree.

Sour grapes, PremEx? Still rankling that your posts weren't considered irrelevant enough to win the emmett_nancy_roberto award?

.sdrawkcab gnihtyreve gnipyt yrt dluoc uoY

Cat types really fast, so I am surprised that the Ol' Tom has only posted 600+. How do he do it?

I must confess here (I can't sleep without this confession first) - the NYC meeting with CatMan (and the "side-car"-drink and beers) had only one real purpose - to avoid CatMan of taking profit from my Internet-absence during my journey ...

ok - after this confession I feel now much better (sorry CatMan).

Hmmm. I see this could develop into quite a competition. You "rookies" better count your fingers before leaving your keyboards!

That's ok, Rudi. To me you are the champ.

All I want is to get some good tips here and
make some great friends. And I have already.

That's my reward! (Sounds like a Hallmark
card, doesn't it.)

And I guess I can type faster with 10 fingers
and eight paws at work! CATMAN

Since Rudi and I have been crowned "kings
of FlyerTalk" by Beckles, then maybe we should hold elections for members of our
"royal court."

I guess there can't be two kings so I give
Rudi the title and I'll be "Chair-purrson of the Board." to take over when Rudi has to
go on the road.

Any suggestions on cabinet positions?

And I thought about the Flag for our little
"nation:" An open suitcase with a plane
flying overboard (for added touch, one cat
popping out of the suitcase while the other
cat sits on the top of the plane. This is my
own suggestion!)

OK GUYS, the campaign is on!!! CATMAN

I should clarify... we are taking ideas for
the titles of the various members of our
Royal court, so I'll leave it to your folks!

We haven't decided how big our court should
be.

But there will be soft blue carpet for when
Merry FLyer pays a visit! CATMAn

Catman, we gotta talk about this flag thing that you mentioned. I think having a flag is wonderful, however, it has to have a LONE STAR and be red, white, & blue, and be flown over the Alamo before it is legal. Now, instead of suitcases, we need to use saddlebags and have a silhouette of a Longhorn Steer on them.

now I have several problems

1) we Swiss killed all (austrian and german) emperors and kings in 1291

2) our constitution (REALLY) still nowadays does not allow any Swiss to accept royal titles (or any honors) from royalities (and being a king is excluded anyway) - for the nobel-prize our governement had to give these Nobel-exceptions-rules for a general vote before Einstein was allowed to accept (as the first swiss holder of a nobel prize).

3) kings wouldn't be allowed to eat anything before it hasn't been tasted by the "Chair-purrson of the Board" - but I am not willing to share my swiss chocolate with anybody.

4) the flag: when I first did some skiing in the US I couldn't believe how friendly people did great me with my national emblem (till I found out that it was the sign of the ski-patrol).

Rudi, Sorry for the flag stuff. So, in honour of "Rudi the Great" we can put a Rolex in the saddlebags and have a picture of a Swiss Army Knife engraved on the saddlebags.

TRUE stories about the "Swiss army knive".

1) the Swiss army (officers included) could (and did) never afford such knives (nor the so called "Swiss army watches") but they (the so called "genuine" ones are produced at two sides in Switzerland by "Victorinox" and (as a "swiss-french-version" by "Wenger").

2) in latin, arabian and islamic countries giving/showing a knive is a rudeness and declaration of war (never give our knives as a gift there).

3) My Swiss "army knives" I had as gifts with me (before I changed to chocolates) were confiscated as arms at several airports (Baghdad, Cairo, Teheran, Jeddah).

true story about the "Swiss" Rolex: the geneva-based company belongs to Mr. Jamany - the former Saudi-Arab leader of OPEC.

and one more typically frequent-flyer Swiss product: SWISSAIR is headed by Mr Katz (US-citizen and former manager of AA).

mega-multi-postings, Rudi... 914 posts for you, 682 for Catman... At least Swissair is led by Mr Katz (miau, miau) - it's a feline conspiracy.

I don't think that being a mock-king would go against the Swiss constitution, and I have a few suggestions for the 'royal court'
* a court jester (emmett_nancy_roberto?)
* machiavelli/james bond type (Merry Flyer? - for getting his guests into the BA lounge. As long as he likes his martinis shaken not stirred...)
* icecream taster (jaws43?)

may be your right baobab - but i really don't like that king/queen/prince/princess - stuff very much.

but I admit:
crownings, marriages, deaths of king/queen/prince/princess televised in Switzerland get ratings of 101% and a lot of Swiss tears (at least that was about the rating when Diana was buried - and - what a real shame - when a week later mother Theresa died I think the TV rating for the ceremonies was about 2%).

Very interesting info on Swiss Army Knives and Watches. I received a fake Swiss Army Watch recently, maybe, someone will comment on it (except it looks fake I suppose) and I can share these tidbits with them.

Ok, I'll drop the Royal Court idea. Thanks
for your imput.

IN fact a few of my friends reminded me that
the Americans got rid of the king over two
hundred years ago... and why bring that stuff
up.

Thanks for the imput guys, especially you
Rudi. You saved me from being thrown off
the boards!

Maybe just a club of FlyerTalk contributors
would work better.

But I do like my flag idea. I think the
Texas version is copyrighted. CATMAN

I am the king.

thanks baobab (I didn't even notice katz = cat in german). So CatMan: Swissair should be your only airline of choice.

As long as we put the white on the bottom and the red on the top(TEXAS is opposite, along with adding the saddlebags, etc., the flag will be OK. We could also put Swiss chocoloate in there but, as with Blue Bell, it would melt. So, we'll just melt the Swiss chocolate and put it on the Blue Bell ice cream. Nine Hundred how many postings?
The North Atlantic fiber must really be hot!

If we open a couple of more threads like this one, perhaps Rudi and Catman can continue their conversation and quickly close in on 1000 posts! All kidding aside, both Rudi and Catman have offered a number of helpful suggestions. But I think things have gotten a bit carried away and would appreciate a return to the topic (FF programs) at hands. Thanks!

Sorry if I got carried away, MileKing (can't
speak for the others) but sometimes I am
having so much fun I can't stay focused.

But it shows you guys have a better sense of
humour than some of the people I work with.

Thank you for your patience. CATMAN

I'm going to post this reply *after* reading Catman but *before* I read MileKing's post! How about:
Beckles as the Duke of Delta (and keeper of the Crowne Room Jewels)?

Jaws as the Count of Continental?

Jimboliguy as the Autokrator of American?

Mileageaddict as the Noble of Northwest?

PremEx as the of Knight of United?

How could I forget Merry as the Baron Adjunct of British Airways???

Noble of Northwest, eh? The way I have been throwing most of my business at United this year (with the NW strike, etc.), I will be known as the... Nothing at Northwest pretty soon!

roberto could be the Buffoon of Braniff and Emmett_s the Evaporated of Eastern.

The way I've been chiding CO about upgrading the Onepass program, I will either be know as the Courtjester of CO, or the Censor of CO

MileKing: in my alps I learned, once the avallenge is rolling - don't try to stop it - either never join the risky people by staying far away from "the topic", or try to avoid it at the last second by stepping/surfing/skiing aside or if you get caught, try to stay on top of it (controle it and yourself).

Much later - in summer - try to (re-)arrange the endangered zones in a way that the avallenge will not be a repeated catastroph by providing obstacles (trees, artificel fences, etc).

Rudi, Surely you studied under Confuscious or
you taught him.

There we go Rudi - you can be the Confucius of FlyerTalk - there's nothing in the Swiss constitution against being a philosopher-king, is there?

For MileKing's sake - perhaps we should post an "Omni" warning in the thread title when going off on tangents like this one, so that those who only want to read about FF topics can avoid anything other than chat about miles. Personally, I find that the tangential threads tell me more about the other contributers' personalities, and I like that.

Catman has definitely been less of a policeman since his trip to Maui!

baobab is obviously the
Baroness of British Airways

Rudi, I think I made a great big blunder. I gave baobab a title and I'm not sure about it, so I say "Excuse Me" to baobab and retract the title and change it to "BOSS" of
British Airways.

Being a 'boss' is fine with me. It gives me some toy soldiers to play with while I try to convince companies to jump through all the hoops that will allow me to accept paid employment.

Until then it's purely for charity!