Tuesday, February 28, 2006

Wipe This

I was glancing at the snail mail spam newsletter from Delta Airlines and I noticed that they used walkie-talkie as a verb.

Fortunately, I was sitting on the throne while reading.

Posted by bjkeefe at 1:20 PM

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Once upon a time Milt Bass got a letter scrreaming at his review ofa play (or maybe book.) MIlt replied, "I am reading your letter with deep concentration. I am sitting in the smallest room in the house. Soon your anger will be behind me."

8:58 PM, February 28, 2006
Anonymous said...

Wait ... why was Delta using "walkie-talkie" at all, as a verb or otherwise?

Something to do with how they're shafting the pilots?

As far as I'm concern, the only person who should speak the term "walkie," in any context, is Wallace as he invites Gromit to "go walkies."

4:09 PM, March 01, 2006
bjkeefe said...

LOL @ both of the above! That Milt has a much classier way of putting things.

Clare -- Delta was verbing with "walkie-talkie" because they were doing some kind of tie-in with a couple of cellular companies. Apparently, you sign up for cell service, get a phone that has 87 features, get some frequent flier miles, . . . . zzzzzzzzz. Yeah, me, too.

I'd like for there to be less free stuff and product tie-ins. I'd like cell phones that actually work as phones, and I'd like airplanes to be as tolerable as riding the bus.

5:27 PM, March 01, 2006
Jinnet said...

Verbing weirds language!

-- Calvin & Hobbes

10:42 PM, March 08, 2006
Anonymous said...

I'm not sure when Milt Bass wrote, but Winston Churchill said something like this during WWII, perhaps he stole it from Milt or vice versa.

If verbing wierds language, then surely nouning wierds verbing -- and vice versa. :-)

2:30 AM, March 09, 2006
bjkeefe said...

Jinnet (or maybe Bill Watterson) wins major points for succinctness.

And knowing Milt Bass as I do, I would expect that if he quoted Churchill without attribution, I am sure it is because he credited the reader with being sufficiently literate. But thanks, TC, for informing me.

4:41 AM, March 10, 2006

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