Hello Jim!
Monday February 09 1998, Jim Sanders writes to Christopher Tarana:
 >>  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?
 JS>          Someone in the media read a World War One "Flying Aces" pulp
 JS> magazine and picked up the term... If the look in a current dictionary,
 JS> they will see the term is a "Trademark" for a bituminous binder, similar
 JS> to tarmacadam, for surfacing roads, airport runways, parking area, etc.
 JS> -- chiefly Brit.
 JS>         They can not spell and do not now history of last week....
Tarmac is also named after a building company based in the UK.
Vince
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