"Airstrip"??? (Was "Ih-slip", I say "Aye-slip")

[Joel S. Berson]

I must be old school.  Simply, Ihslip airstrip appealed to me, as did
the opportunity for someone who grew up in the City to slur the suburbs.

Joel

At 4/10/2007 03:36 PM, Doug Harris wrote:
>Now there's a vision!
>I _do_ know what you mean, but to mind immediately sprang, upon
>reading 'airstrip', a concept of some odd (possibly obscene) show in a
>plane, then to something akin to air guitar or air drumming. I must
>admit, the former concept appealed to the imagination more than did either
>of the latter!
>(the other) doug
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>The news in Boston was air service initiated from Logan in Boston to
>"Ihslip", Long Island, known (as someone wrote earlier) mostly for
>its airstrip.
>
>Joel
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