[Ads-l] 'Fighter-jet' redux (sorta)

[Jonathan Lighter]

Berkeley and Northwestern graduate, news-show host, novelist, and former
Bush WH Communications Director Nicolle Wallace of MSNBC described police
armored cars/trucks outside of Parkland High School  as "tanks" at least
twice today.

See above, 12/7/16.

JL

On Sun, Sep 10, 2017 at 7:55 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> An amateur reviewer of_Dunkirk_ on IMDb calls Spitfires "fighter jets":
>
> "The fighter jets didn't miss a single enemy and safely touched down on
> the sea and beach."
>
> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5013056/reviews?filter=hate;
> filter=hate;start=50
>
> JL
>
> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 10:03 AM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com
> > wrote:
>
>> Yeah, but "turboprop" is now preferred.
>>
>> Don't know if there's a technical diff between the two terms.
>>
>>
>> JL
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 11:07 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 6:59 AM, Jonathan Lighter <
>>> wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>> > the
>>> > > propellers on ATR's are driven by a jet engine
>>> >
>>>
>>> A "prop-jet," as once was said?
>>>
>>>
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