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Air Traffic Report

Dan Savage
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1
Sorry you're marooned somewhere. Damn funny headline!
Puty on January 11, 2011 at 10:25 PM Report this
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Go find a bar, stat!
Cephalodude on January 11, 2011 at 10:27 PM Report this
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Good news: the snow is letting up a bit.

Bad news: bars are closing so employees can make it home.
Dan Savage on January 11, 2011 at 10:29 PM Stranger Staff
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You could start drinking now, and then do tomorrow's Letter of the Day...?
Canuck on January 11, 2011 at 10:29 PM Report this
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Find a duty-free shop and buy a bottle.
StuckInUtah on January 11, 2011 at 10:31 PM Report this
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Cool story bro, you should start a blog
watchout5 on January 11, 2011 at 10:40 PM Report this
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Booo! Bad Rabid Snow Cats! Keeping Dan from getting where he wants to go!
Lissa on January 11, 2011 at 10:46 PM Report this
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OMG! Seatac was fine last night when I passed through! I'm glad I didn't get stranded in Seattle much as I love the place -- it's C-C-O-L-D up there! Warmer here in San Diego. Have a good trip and thaw out in Miami...
BEG on January 11, 2011 at 11:04 PM Report this
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Oh Dan, You know you relish the fact that you have a dirty look.
Urgutha Forka on January 11, 2011 at 11:06 PM Report this
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Holy shit - your FB schedule shows you with 15 speeches totally crisscrossing the country next three months. Take your vitamins.
gloomy gus on January 11, 2011 at 11:14 PM Report this
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P.S. In the immortal words of Rob Delaney, "Every time you fart as you're walking through first class getting on a plane, Jesus high-fives your grandmother."
gloomy gus on January 11, 2011 at 11:31 PM Report this
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You go Mystique Summers Madison! "Bitch, I am from Chicago!"
no8do on January 11, 2011 at 11:39 PM Report this
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Take a picture of your seatmate.
Kat on January 11, 2011 at 11:51 PM Report this
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yeah, I wanna see the seatmate.
gnossos on January 11, 2011 at 11:56 PM Report this
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I take exception to your abuse of the word "literally" and have included this helpful guide so that you may amend your ways.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/literally

stilettov on January 12, 2011 at 12:08 AM Report this
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@15: thank you! The man is supposed to be an editor, and doesn't know the difference between literally and metaphorically. (Unless Dan meant that he was having a coronary at that moment).
eclexia on January 12, 2011 at 12:19 AM Report this
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Take a pic of the seatmate!!

@16&15

I think he was casually writing since he's probably on his iphone or other small devise.
svensken on January 12, 2011 at 12:46 AM Report this
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The suspense is literally killing me.


You keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
David Wright on January 12, 2011 at 12:49 AM Report this
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@literally: Stranger writers have been flogging abuse of literally for a while now. I think it's an inside joke.
gnossos on January 12, 2011 at 12:51 AM Report this
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@literally: Somehow I think it's not the first time he's seen that Oatmeal strip. I sense alot of sarcasm.

http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/20…
Leaning Westward on January 12, 2011 at 12:59 AM Report this
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leave your earrings on so fool think you forgot that shove then wait until y'all dark up in the air mostly sleepin, and then right after that last pass from the attendant, side eye your seat mate, snatch that heifer's weave and cut her to the white meat.
.. you from CHICAGO !
reverend dr dj riz on January 12, 2011 at 1:03 AM Report this
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@21, "to the white meat" FTW. @11 FRU (for runner-up). Braaap.

I just watched the 358 slide backwards down the hill instead of forward up it. It's not just frequent fliers who are having trouble getting places in this.
Fnarf on January 12, 2011 at 2:41 AM Report this
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Good rule of thumb; treat everyone as if they were a blogger with a rabid base of thousands of readers and a digital camera.

Dan, I know you aren't above freaking fellow passangers the fuck out by doing your regular job in view of them. Crank up that font size, angly the laptop towards Asshole Businessman and make the SLLOD a response to the freakiest and most frightening email you've recieved lately.
Lynx on January 12, 2011 at 3:54 AM Report this
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@18 et al
I think when one self diagnoses oneself as dying as a result of a situation it is fair for that person to suggest that they are literally dying. e.g. "This plastic bag over my head is literally killing me." Lord knows I have felt that way while sitting on an airplane. As it turns out I was being irrational - but it was hard for me to make that call at the time.

Besides, we literally won't be able to pass judgement on his use of the word until he gets himself up out of that seat, now will we?
jnonymous on January 12, 2011 at 4:40 AM Report this
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I am a small, round, baby-faced female and it happens to me all the time. I have had men step around me because they assumed that I wasn't in their boarding group.

Remember what Benny Hill said about assuming?
samanthaf63 on January 12, 2011 at 6:01 AM Report this
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Made it to Miami alive—took off in what looked like a freaking blizzard. Couldn't believe we were zooming down that runway.

Anyway, didn't sleep on the plane. So now I'm literally going to bed! Literally!
Dan Savage on January 12, 2011 at 6:11 AM Stranger Staff
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Wink, wink "literally" going to bed said the sex columnist : ) Get it? Know what I mean? Know what I mean?
jnonymous on January 12, 2011 at 6:17 AM Report this
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Rev Riz, thanks for making me spit out my coffee...
Canuck on January 12, 2011 at 6:22 AM Report this
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Nicely done, @12. That was going to be my comment!
TimesTwo on January 12, 2011 at 6:26 AM Report this
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My favorite part of this post is that you have concern for the poor airport lady standing there in the snow with her orange flashlights, just doing her job. What are the chances anyone else in first class cares? Good karma, Dan. Glad you made it safely.
Donna on January 12, 2011 at 6:40 AM Report this
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Welcome to Miami, Dan!! Be sure to make your way up to Fort "Liquordale" while you're in south FLA.
Gigglewolf on January 12, 2011 at 7:17 AM Report this
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@27 I'm thinking he would have been perfectly comfortable using the Anglo Saxon for that, actually...nudge nudge, wink wink.
Canuck on January 12, 2011 at 7:23 AM Report this
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@32, say no more, ;-)!
gr8lakesgrrl on January 12, 2011 at 9:01 AM Report this
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Dan, were you really that mad at eventual seatmate? I think I can hear his "Oh my God!" all the way out here in the remnants of the storm on the eastern Seaboard.

Watch out you don't bruise your karma, dan. You might have to come back as Sarah Palin's grandson!
BrotherBob on January 12, 2011 at 9:03 AM Report this
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Lol. Great Mystique Summers Madison reference.
Zach on January 12, 2011 at 9:24 AM Report this
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AHAHAHAHAHA. Ottawa is less snowy than everywhere else for once! EAT SNOW BITCHES! AHAHHAHAHAHAAHHAA.
Caralain on January 12, 2011 at 9:47 AM Report this
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@12 - You beat me to it! I totally heard her voice in my head when I read that line. I'm sure Dan did, too, where he wrote it.
Kevin_BGFH on January 12, 2011 at 9:50 AM Report this
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if I had to take the redeye I'd literally kill myself
myr on January 12, 2011 at 10:45 AM Report this
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People who get worked up over literally are literally idiots.
giffy on January 12, 2011 at 10:49 AM Report this
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Ps "You have almost exceeded your data plan allowance for this billing period. Additional charges will apply."

Thanks, Slog.
Canuck on January 12, 2011 at 11:00 AM Report this
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Just saw something that said there is snow in all 50 states right now except Florida - Dan is just too, too hot right now!
Jaymz on January 12, 2011 at 12:17 PM Report this
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Opps - I literally was repetitive there... too fast, too fast.
Jaymz on January 12, 2011 at 12:20 PM Report this
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Dude! Dirty? Photos! Let's see just how dirty you are!
lewlew on January 12, 2011 at 12:35 PM Report this
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really - do you think *Alaska* airlines is afraid of snow??!? Jezos.
happyhedonist on January 12, 2011 at 9:37 PM Report this
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@41: Per-kb data plans? Did we hit a decade-long time warp? :-)

(I only recently was made aware of the fact that the US is one of the only places, and possibly the only place, on earth with unlimited data plans, not just for mobile devices but also for land-line ISPs. WTF multinational telecom companies? And double-WTF for AT&T moving back in that direction here in USA. I thought bandwidth was supposed to get cheaper as time goes on, not more expensive.)
John Horstman on January 13, 2011 at 11:12 AM Report this

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