--- On Wed, 25/3/09, Venkat Mangudi <s...@venkatmangudi.com> wrote:
> From: Venkat Mangudi <s...@venkatmangudi.com>
> Subject: Re: [silk] Daring trains..
> To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
> Date: Wednesday, 25 March, 2009, 12:12 PM
> Deepa Mohan wrote:
> > the Railways? Come to it, what is the system on
> aircraft? Not even the
> > all-detail Arthur Hailey has talked about this....
> >
> This used to be one of those questions that popped up after
> a nice round
> of drinks with friends. Of course, every one got creative
> at that time.
> I think some people warily looked up whenever a flight was
> overhead too. :-)
>
> Seriously, it's all collected during the flight and dumped,
> if I may use
> the expression, at the airport. If you carefully notice,
> two tubes get
> attached to the plane at the airport. One of them is for
> fuel.
>
> V
The well-read reader, dear reader, would recall the incident of a large, very
large lump of ice with other embedded sediment dropping out of the skies onto a
house and demolishing most of the house - fortunately with little or no damage
to the humans resident. On examination, it turned out to be the detritus of the
plumbing system of a plane, presumably from a passing plane that felt the
urgent need for a dump, to use the felicitous expression used above by V-i.
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