Overheard at American Airlines Flight 1919

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But she's beautiful when she cums

Cato the Younger Younger on March 31, 2011 at 10:38 AM

Are you complaining, Dan? You shouldn't. You yourself, in your writing, have contributed to this vulgarization of the English language.

Chris in Vancouver WA on March 31, 2011 at 10:38 AM

hear not here

Andy_Squirrel on March 31, 2011 at 10:39 AM

You said purchase twice.

/he must really like purchase agreements.

on March 31, 2011 at 10:40 AM

that's rich! Also now I know the word nattily.

yourmom.com on March 31, 2011 at 10:40 AM

Pittsburgh to Dallas. Yeah, that fits.

CarlosDesastre on March 31, 2011 at 10:40 AM

You should make the sign of the cross over her and intone "Omnibus santorum."

rob! on March 31, 2011 at 10:41 AM

@ 3. My first thought as well. I hate being on the grammar police but I've been forced to read through tens of thousands of pages of documents with some of the most atrocious grammar for the last 8 weeks and I don't want to see it on slog. *sigh*

moosefan on March 31, 2011 at 10:43 AM

I can forgive the cussing. But mispelling hear as here?

LML on March 31, 2011 at 10:44 AM

First class is so much more interesting than steerage.

Aaron on March 31, 2011 at 10:44 AM

Apologizing to YOU for swearing? I would love to have seen your expression Dan.

Nancy S on March 31, 2011 at 10:46 AM

I think I just hung up with that woman. (from the accounting office at the stranger)

tra on March 31, 2011 at 10:49 AM

Maybe Dan just hered her rong.

laterite on March 31, 2011 at 10:52 AM

Did she really say "purchase" twice? Because that makes no sense.

Lavode on March 31, 2011 at 10:52 AM

(sent from my I-phone)

lukeiscool on March 31, 2011 at 10:54 AM

Sorry, sorry. Dashing off Slog post while doors were closing. Mistakes we're made.

Dan Savage on March 31, 2011 at 10:55 AM Stranger Staff

and what was your riposte? "No fucking problem, fuckface!"

scary tyler moore on March 31, 2011 at 10:55 AM

Hey, don't complain. Bet your bottom dollar that the flight attendants will be giving her (and therefore you) good service ...especially if you act like you're her husband.

saxfanatic on March 31, 2011 at 10:56 AM

gawd people DAN IS FUCKING ILLITERATE

get over it....

on March 31, 2011 at 10:57 AM

Pics or it didn't happen.

Fifty-Two-Eighty on March 31, 2011 at 11:02 AM

@2 Fuck is a fine Anglo Saxon word that's been around for hundreds and hundreds of years. It taught vulgar how to be vulgar, honey.

Canuck on March 31, 2011 at 11:05 AM

@9, Ha ha!

@20, you know she's got to be awesome in the sack.

seatackled on March 31, 2011 at 11:14 AM

@ 21 and it's also a highly versatile word ...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Q1g8HAAm…

moosefan on March 31, 2011 at 11:17 AM

And who the hell flies American Airlines? Shit, I haven't flown on one of their planes in 15 years. (They don't "do" Denver.)

Fifty-Two-Eighty on March 31, 2011 at 11:18 AM

@23 Very nice! (I love that word...)

5280, the last time I flew on AA, I swear it was like what I've read about Aeroflot...I don't think the plane had had an upgrade since 1972. There were definitely no USB ports in the seat backs.

Canuck on March 31, 2011 at 11:22 AM

@25 I've flown on Aeroflot. The service on Aeroflot (on a domestic flight to/from Moscow) is much better than the service you get on most US domestic flights.

nokidsandthreemoney on March 31, 2011 at 11:29 AM

It's not everday that you get to be part of a dinner theater production of a David Mamet play.

on March 31, 2011 at 11:30 AM

Flying first class as usual, huh, Dan?

stilettov on March 31, 2011 at 11:34 AM

@5: Natty is a word that always sounds to me like it should mean the its inverse. When I hear the phrase "natty sweater", my mind first conjures a picture of a sweater with a snag in it, and then I have to forcibly move to a picture of a fashionable and neat sweater.

Canadian Nurse on March 31, 2011 at 12:13 PM

Actually, there's no evidence for "fuck" being Anglo-Saxon (though most people think it's Germanic). Shit, turd, and arse are found in the Old English corpus.

Oh, and cunt is from the Latin "cunctus," meaning crack.

I wrote about this in grad school. Probably the best part of the experience.

leek on March 31, 2011 at 12:21 PM

I think I might have said "No fucking shit, bitch. I hope you gave the fucking slackers hell!"

She sounds cool!

despicable me on March 31, 2011 at 12:28 PM

Hahahahahah! So polite!

idaho on March 31, 2011 at 12:59 PM

Gotta love it. *Did* you say anything? I can only imagine :)

BEG on March 31, 2011 at 1:13 PM

People are gonna die.

sirkowski on March 31, 2011 at 1:18 PM

"You must not be familiar with my work..."

John Horstman on March 31, 2011 at 1:53 PM

That's funny... I was just complaining about my new pet peeve, which is older men (specifically, the older male executives at my clients), who pointedly do not swear because I am present, or who look at me and apologize for swearing after doing so. This has been happening a lot lately, for some reason. My response today to “Pardon my French”: “That’s okay, I actually speak French fluently."

Julie in Eugene on March 31, 2011 at 3:15 PM

I'd have simply told her "I don't fucking mind."

MythicFox on March 31, 2011 at 4:53 PM

Ya know, when I was a kid you could be arrested for lacking the bare intelligence needed for knowing what was and wasn't appropriate public speech.

Too bad this woman wasn't born 2 decades sooner. She could share her foul mouth with the hookers in a holding cell. She and they have much in common as far as class goes.

Seattleblues on March 31, 2011 at 8:14 PM

@39

Careful darling. Some call that freedom of speech, that pesky thing you claim to love. ;-)

svensken on March 31, 2011 at 9:39 PM

Weren't you *on* the flight, not *at* the flight?

KingofQueenAnne on April 1, 2011 at 12:38 AM

@39: Yes, it really is unfortunate that the days are past when women knew how to behave appropriately.

What's even more shocking is that this "lady", and I use the term very loosely (though not as "loose" as someone with her guttermouth probably is - har har!), was permitted to travel on her own. She even seems to have a job of some sort.

She clearly needs a husband who knows how to keep her in her place.

Backyard Bombardier on April 1, 2011 at 12:54 PM

ha ha. I'm dumb. Just figured out fifty-two-eighty. From Denver. Got it.

orora on April 1, 2011 at 4:58 PM

ha ha. I'm dumb. Just figured out fifty-two-eighty. From Denver. Got it.

orora on April 1, 2011 at 5:01 PM

double dumb.

orora on April 1, 2011 at 5:01 PM

Don't feel bad. A lot of people don't figure it out very quickly.

Fifty-Two-Eighty on April 1, 2011 at 5:07 PM

poor chap, her husband or boyfriend.

solicitor on April 2, 2011 at 12:44 AM

Actually, all that is your inference entirely unsupported by anything I wrote.

Though you're right that an inability to speak or write without recourse to profanity is telling about morality and general classiness. Just look at Savage if you don't believe me. The man has no class, no morals, no ethics and he can't string together a sentence on any subject without using 'fuck' at least once.

Seattleblues on April 2, 2011 at 12:18 PM

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