If it makes you feel any better, "back in the day," I was a Shorts 3-30 Captain at the FIRST "Piedmont Regional Airline." Anyone who remembers the Shorts knows three things:

1. They're ugly
2. They're slow
3. They're ugly...oops, said that
4. The PT6's left a LOT of soot on the vertical stabs

So...there we are one day, me and my F/O, taxiing out of the BWI ramp, behind another "pig." Piedmont calls for taxi in a very professional voice, hoping to beat us out to Rwy 28.

The ground controllers response? "Roger, follow the dirty pair of Shorts to 28."

Sometimes ya can't win.........