Originally Posted by
scambo1
I'm a tool because I use popeye. I also say roger. The few times in my life I have said popeye, I've never had a controller not understand. They must understand tooldom.
You are now less clueless:
Brevity code - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia but you still may be tumbleweed.
I am not the one that said someone was a tool for using these terms, I simply said that neither I or the former military guy I was flying with knew what the term "popeye" meant. To throw out a psychological term, I think you might be "projecting."