Slog - Comments on More Sun Country Madness http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/07/more_sun_country_mad Last week I posted about Sun Country airline's mysterious passenger safety pamphlet, which features what looks like a drawing of Willy Wonka about to de-plane down the passenger slide. Then, this past Monday, Dan Savage (who just took his own trip on Sun Country) pointed out that I'd somehow missed another curious addition to the airline's pamphlet: Again: WTF? Willy Wonka and a ballerina on the same flight? Are they in cahoots? Is it some sort of devious (and costumed) hijacking plot? Or is it just a coincidence? And just how are those "brace positions" supposed to save you when... Copyright 2007 Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:13:08 -0800 Wed, 19 Jul 2006 05:11:05 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Will in Seattle Actually, I've seen this on other airlines too. I think it's for small jets.

They decided people were too scared, perhaps, and tried to inject some humor?

Although I have flown next to a clown and a juggler once.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/07/more_sun_country_mad#c392453 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/07/more_sun_country_mad#c392453 Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:31:45 -0800 Comment by schmoo These KILL me! Hilarious!

I doubt the airline would do this on purpose. Can someone call them?

]]> schmoo http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/07/more_sun_country_mad#c392472 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/07/more_sun_country_mad#c392472 Wed, 05 Jul 2006 15:52:04 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle oh, and you survive a plane crash head first into a mountain the same way you survive a car going headfirst into a mountain.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/07/more_sun_country_mad#c392483 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/07/more_sun_country_mad#c392483 Wed, 05 Jul 2006 16:04:36 -0800 Comment by Peter Several years ago, I talked to the head of a small design agency in the Olympia area that had an idea to pitch airlines on the idea of new safety card graphics incorporating various public domain celebrities like Marilyn Monroe and Albert Einstein taking part in plane evacuations and so on, I think in an attempt to get people to pay more attention to the graphics on the card...

]]> Peter http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/07/more_sun_country_mad#c392714 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/07/more_sun_country_mad#c392714 Wed, 05 Jul 2006 17:48:04 -0800 Comment by konstantConsumer it also looks like, in that first photo, that you can't have cigarettes, or lit blunts, but until joints are okay.

]]> konstantConsumer http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/07/more_sun_country_mad#c392902 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/07/more_sun_country_mad#c392902 Wed, 05 Jul 2006 19:26:54 -0800 Comment by kasa Well after reading the first post on this I went to airtoons.com, and one of thier cartoons has a style very similar to that of Sun Country's... and is featuring a cowboy. In chaps.


Definitely on purpose.

]]> kasa http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/07/more_sun_country_mad#c393076 http://slog.thestranger.com/2006/07/more_sun_country_mad#c393076 Wed, 05 Jul 2006 21:06:31 -0800 Comment by Justin Sun Country graphic designer's idea of humor...

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Odd.

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