Caltrops - Let's Not Play





	[quote name="Commander Tansin A. Darcos"]Sarcasm is used to comment on someone's remarks. While it can often be very humorous, it doesn't have to be. And sometimes it isn't. The movie <i>Airport</i> has a number of sarcastic jibes at someone else's statement: There's this one where Joe Patroni wants to get a plane that's stuck in the mud next to the runway back on the runway, and he's arguing with the pilot from Flight 45 who messed up and drove it off in the first place, who refused to use full power on the engines to push it back: <font color=violet>Joe Patroni</font>: You chickened out on me! I told you I wanted all the power you got! <font color=violet>Capt. Benson</font>: Full throttle and this plane would be standing on its nose. <font color=violet>Joe Patron</font>i: You might fly these things but I take them apart and put them back together again. If you had any guts we'd be on the runway by now. <font color=violet>Capt. Benson</font>: You felt it vibrating? Another 10 seconds and we'd have had structural damage. <font color=violet>Joe Patroni</font> <font color=yellow>[infuriated]</font>: Who do ya think you're talking to, some kid that fixes bicycles? I know every inch of the 707! Take the wings off this and you could use it as a TANK! This plane is built to withstand anything... <font color=yellow>[points thumb at Benson]</font> except a bad pilot. <font color=violet>Capt. Benson</font> <font color=yellow>[to Bakersfeld, standing next to Patroni]</font>: You might tell your mechanic that I've got three million miles in the air. <font color=violet>Joe Patroni</font>: And two and a half feet into the ground. There's also an error in this dialog. And another one that points out the stupidness of the question. <font color=violet>Demeresti</font>: When I'm flying over 200,000 pounds of 707 I want a runway that's mighty long, and mighty dry. <font color=violet>Bakersfeld</font>: It'll be dry all right, but not very long. <font color=violet>Demeresti</font>: What's that supposed to mean? <font color=violet>Bakersfeld</font>: Runway 29 is closed. A jockey from your flight 45 tried to take a shortcut across the field. And he didn't make it. <font color=violet>Demeresti</font>: What are you doing about it? <font color=violet>Bakersfeld</font>: Well, when the snow melts in April, we'll get it out. I don't think either of these are for comedic relief, they're there to point out the ridiculousness of the other person's statements. [/quote]