13
May
2008
Posted by: Mark Ashley

From the classic comedy archives: The language of travel, sliced and diced as only George Carlin can. Flight attendants in the audience will either nod along with agreement or recoil in horror at the delegitimation of their workday vernacular.

For those whose sensibilities are offended by this sort of thing, beware of F-bombs, F-bombs, and more F-bombs! (And the occasional reference to adult behaviors that are still technically illegal in some states.) So the audio isn’t safe for work. Unless your co-workers are themselves in the habit of barraging each other with f-bombs. In which case, the videos below will be incredibly tame, and you probably have a better time at the office than I do.

Part one:

Part two:

Categorized in: travel
3 Comments

3 Responses to “Aerolinguistics, deconstructed”

  1. Jimmie Says:

    holy crap. Thank you for brightening my otherwise monotonous day. I haven’t lol’d like this in a while.

  2. Dootz Says:

    I am sitting in a Hong Kong Starbucks – having traveled here from North America, unwittingly subject to the language Carlin so capably demolishes – and laughing so hard that I am sure I am breaking centuries-old laws against public displays of amusement.

    ********
    http://meadonmanhattan.wordpress.com/

  3. Tearing apart airline lingo, great laughs ahead | SimpliFlying Says:

    [...] First spotted on the “Upgrade: Travel Better Blog“ Tags: airline humor, comedy Posted under Brand Xperience, Uncategorized [...]

Leave a Reply