Hey Buzz, we serve healthy food because we want our customers to keep coming back. I cannot understand serving a Cheeseburger and Fries unless you want to kill your customers and decay your client base....

I keed I keed.

I don't know ACL. I've had more medical emergencies on my flights lately then I can ever remember. Maybe some tasty, fat food is the answer. Apparently, our healthy stuff isn't doing the trick.

Alright, it's time for the MARSHALL PLAN.

Now it could really be called the FORGOT TO BID PLAN, but that just doesn't have quite the ring and besides, when my dad was asked why I wasn't named a Junior he said "I didn't want my name on that train wreck." I feel the same here.

So the Marshall Plan... I mean the MARSHALL PLAN.



Those 250 CRJ-200s, 65 CRJ-700s, 50 CRJ-900s equals 20,850 seats.

That's about 139 MD88 flights in the 149 seat configuration. So here is what I... or Mr. Marshall... propose:

1. Permitted Aircraft for Category A (those are the DCI operations under a CPA) and C operations (American Eagle in LAX under an RPA) are now limited to non-jet aircraft seating no more than 65 passengers in a two seat configuration. This can include the ultra expensive Dash 8-400 or cheap used ATR 72-500s:



1.A. Any DCI operating aircraft under this new plan shall have a longevity based pay that lasts no longer than 5 years with starting FO pay no less than 70% that of starting Delta FO pay and the rest of their pay set by Delta Pilots via an annual vote.

1.B. Any DCI that gives Delta pilots rights to reserve their jumpseat in advance, identical to Delta's current policy, then that airline shall receive super preferential stuff.

2. Category A operations are limited to flights within 250 nm from the departure airport.

3. Per the Buzzpat Amendment, Section 1.O is hereby deleted.

4. All former flights vacated by DCI jets because of the new rules to Section 1 will now and forever be handled as either a nonstop or 1 or 2 stop flight aboard a Delta Air Line's Airbus A319, A320, McDonnell Kickass Douglas 88 or 90, possibly former AirTran 717, 737-700 and -800, Boeing 757 and 767, Airbus A330, DC-10, DC-3, L1011, 767-400, 747-400, 747-800 and whatever else mainline owns at the moment.

5. Delta Air Lines shall scour the boneyards of former airliners for cheap cool airplanes and present the blast from the past. Such as converting 727s into two engine airplanes with a fake third engine or something similar.

If the Marshall Plan does not wet your appetite to a return of the good ole days then the statue, see if anyone can name the individual or better yet where that statue resides, then here is a new hood ornament for the plan.

I guess when you do an image.google search the movie Forgetting Sarah Marshal comes up right there with the Marshall Plan:



There. You happy?

Why yes. Yes I am.

Carl

I Love.

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Isn't the statue at the Marshall Center on the border of Germany/Austria (Geilenkirchen sp)

BTW George Marshall was a really bright guy and an amazing statesman.

He was but this statue is not in Germany, in the States. And you still have time to quote the Sarah Marshal plan.

I googled it, apparently there is one at Dodona Manor, VMI, Pennsylvania, and maybe others.

Isnt VMI's claim to fame that their class rings are considered weapons due to their size.

YouTube - This Is My Rifle. This Is My Gun

AH really? That sucks. Sorry to send you on a chase, yes, that statue is at VMI where he attended.

As to the rings, I'm sure they're over the top. My brother went there when it was a very poor school as it fought the state over women.



You know the only time I have ever seen him referenced in popular movies or modern movies is during Saving Private Ryan. But of course I don't see many movies so maybe there were more but that was the first for me.

Speaking of Ermey, did you know he was in Apocalypse Now?

Anyways, this is from a Kubrick interview from the Rolling Stone:

Full Metal Jacket seemed a long time in the making.