Airline Slang

[Laurence Horn]

At 11:05 AM -0500 2/13/03, Duane Campbell wrote:
>On Thu, 13 Feb 2003 00:12:12 -0500 Bapopik at AOL.COM writes:
>
>>  AIRLINE SLANG
>
>For a couple of years I did a weekly radio show with a woman who had been
>a flight attendant. After the show we would always go out for "crew tea".
>On a short layover, they were not allow to drink, so every airport
>waitress knew how to serve crew tea -- tea cups and a tea pot full of
>beer.
>
>D

Ah, another ironym!  Some crew tea to wash down the Welsh rabbit and
prairie oysters.

L