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• The responses below mention the following works (a few added)
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• Story I heard when I was getting my private on Long Island
  Local fellow working his way up had padded his logbook with extra twin time....
• Airplane Humor Here are some actual humorous statements by several airline flights crews.
  Occasionally, airline attendants make an effort to make the "in-flight safety lecture" a bit more entertaining....
• Hilarious Flight Information from the Airline Employees Occasionally, airline attendants make an effort to make the "in-flight safety lecture" and their other announcements a bit more entertaining.
  Here are some real examples that have been heard or reported...
• I heard this exchange between Baltimore Approach and a C-172 about 3pm on March 1st.
  I missed the first part of the exchange, but the part I did hear follows....
• The Poles have a saying about how communist governments rewrite history
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• Several years ago I heard a pilot check in with approach control with the following (names changed because I don't remember them)
  [said with an exaggerated Southern drawl] Birdseed Approach, Barnburner 123 with you at seven thousand, with Information -- excuse the expression -- Yankee....
• LIFE IN THE SLAW LANE by Kip Adotta It was Cucumber the Fi
  Summer was over. I had just spinached a long day and I was busheled....
• The Wizard of Zone Once upon a time in Depression-era Kansas there was a little black boy named Zachary X (pronounced "ex" not "ten") who lived on a farm.
  He was an orphan, a cheap device to garner your sympathy....