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A mileage run is a trip for the sole purpose of earning frequent-flier miles; a trip to absolutely anywhere at all assuming that the fare is cheap enough so that the miles balance out the cost. Samir Bhatnagar is about 3,000 miles short of platinum status in the Northwest Airlines WorldPerks program, and he's willing to go to great lengths to attain elite status for 2006; He searches the Internet for a cheap fare to Europe, Las Vegas or the West Coast and he will most likely take a mileage run before year's end.
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| 2. | The Wings of Maynard | ||
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This can be defined as a hairstyle of an emo where the sides come down over the ears symbolising what looks like a pair of wings. People who have this haristyle can also use their wings as handlebars for various activities such as pretending you are riding a peddle bike in the Tour de France. If your needing cheap flights to foreign countries, you can always count on The Wings of Maynard! For they are Fast and Furious!
Jimmy: Oh no! Look in the sky! Its The Wings of Agmar! |
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| 3. | Airline Therapy | ||
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Airline Therapy - Cheap form of mental health where two or more unaquatinted people can chat and share their most personal thoughts with each other in the uninhibited environment of an airline flight. The fact that in 2-10 hours these two people are going to be going there separate ways, never to meet again, produces an uncommon candidness. With the advent of the internet this concept can also be applied to chat rooms & instant messenger. The flight was a killer, however my seat mate provided 3 hours of the best airline therapy I've had in a while. It really cleared the cache. Do not confuse this with, "The Mile High Club".
I originally read about this in a USA Today Life article back in the early 1990’s. The article talked about the conversations that people have with total strangers on flights. |
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| 4. | Popocity | ||
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(Pope-ocity)
The level at which you can screw the system for any sort of value. Typically referring to money and measured on a scale of 1 to 10 (10 being the highest). Jew def. 7. I exhibited a high level of popocity by regularly booking on flights I knew would be booked and then giving up my seat in order to get free flight vouchers.
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| 5. | concorde | ||
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British/French supersonic airliner, designed in the sixties and entered commercial service in 1976. A supreme technological success (and the only successful supersonic airliner), but catastrophic from a business point of view.
Concorde was designed when fuel was cheap, and when it didn't seem like there would be any objection to generating sonic booms over populated areas. By the time it was ready to go into commercial service, environmental concerns and fuel costs eroded most of the potential market. In the end, Concorde served only with Air France and British Airways, mostly flying on the New York - Paris and New York - London routes. After the first fatal Concorde accident in 2000, the fleet was grounded for over a year. The decision was finally made to retire the two Concorde fleets in 2003, and the survivors were retired to museums in Germany, France, Britain, the United States, and Barbados. No supersonic successor appears likely The last commercial Concorde flights were in October 2003.
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| 6. | TWA | ||
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TWA stands for Trans World Airlines, which is now defunct. I think it went out of business sometime during the fucking PC 90s, or maybe during the early 21st century. I took a TWA flight to Chicago, got blitzed on the bird and had some pleasant chit-chat with a righteous babe of a stewardess.
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| 7. | IKEA | ||
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Swedish for "see if you can put this shit together." OK, we got the boxes to fit in the car and carried them up 4 flights of stairs.. time to IKEA."
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