Random Note For WOTY #7

[Laurence Horn]

On Dec 3, 2013, at 12:16 PM, Neal Whitman wrote:

> I seem to recall reading about something like this a few years ago; they were calling it the "Taco Copter." Perhaps its time hadn't come.
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> Or...
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> ...it was a hoax: http://eater.com/archives/2012/03/27/tragedies-the-tacocopter-was-just-a-hoax.php
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> Neal
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That is really too bad.  It could have been equipped with a tacometer to calculate delivery costs.

LH
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> On Tue, Dec 3, 2013 at 11:54 AM, David Barnhart <dbarnhart at highlands.com> wrote:
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>> Research this morning on #6, _drone deliver_, has revealed _delivery drone_
>> which dates back to at least 2009.
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>> Cars will be pooled and not seen as a vital part of everyday life. Delivery
>> drones will replace trucks. Beth Neil, "Your Home 2029," The Mirror (Nexis),
>> April 27, 2009, p 10
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> And today's word from Paul McFedries' Wordspy site is "dronejacking,"
> presumably an occupational hazard of delivery drones.
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> http://www.wordspy.com/words/dronejacking.asp
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