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

[Doug Harris]

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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