CHRISTOPHER,
     In a message dated 02-08-98 you wrote ...
>  >      No problem, I figured the new lurkers on the echo could use a
> peek
> inside a directory, and it might fuel further discussion.
>
>  >         Which taxiway did they clip?
>
>  JS> The papers did not say. It just said he taxied off the "tarmac"
>  JS> and got stuck in the mud. :)
>
>         "Tarmac"?  Isn't it politically incorrect to tar and feather a
> person
> of Scottish decent?   What kind of people are those media clowns?
         Someone in the media read a World War One "Flying Aces" pulp 
magazine and picked up the term... If the look in a current dictionary, they 
will see the term is a "Trademark" for a bituminous binder, similar to 
tarmacadam, for surfacing roads, airport runways, parking area, etc. -- 
chiefly Brit.
        They can not spell and do not now history of last week....
   -=*  Jim Sanders  *=-
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