Explain the origin of "kettle" for me
Dec 18, 2017, 9:43 am
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I sat in front of a lady one time who had brought along some sort of hotplate or a little crock pot or something, and she was rather put off when the FA wouldn't let her plug it in. "How are we supposed to re-heat our lasagna?" was all I heard for the next two hours, over and over.
Dec 18, 2017, 12:55 pm
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How much time is saved? Two or three minutes? The Kettle doesn't know any better. The impatient person behind them who takes it upon themselves to butt into their conversation is acting like a jerk.
Dec 19, 2017, 12:11 am
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You're right, eh. I should have let them go to the ticket counter to stand in line just to confirm with the TA that they were indeed sitting next to each other and then spend more time in the security line and potentially miss their flight. That would have been a jerk move.
Dec 19, 2017, 5:14 am
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You're right, eh. I should have let them go to the ticket counter to stand in line just to confirm with the TA that they were indeed sitting next to each other and then spend more time in the security line and potentially miss their flight. That would have been a jerk move.
Last edited by Badenoch; Dec 19, 2017 at 5:36 am
Dec 29, 2017, 12:05 am
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As unsophisticated as Ma and Pa Kettle were, on YouTube they "prove" convincingly
that 5 x 14 = 25 (parallels Costello's [of Abbott and Costello] "proof" that 7 x 13 = 28--Ma and Pa Kettle seem more convincing.
that 5 x 14 = 25 (parallels Costello's [of Abbott and Costello] "proof" that 7 x 13 = 28--Ma and Pa Kettle seem more convincing.