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Thursday, July 29, 2010

Transportation / Religion Overheard by Dan Savage at the Airport

Posted by on Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:49 PM

"Oh my god, there are nuns in habits on our flight—that's bad luck, isn't it? Like flying with a high school football team."

 

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gloomy gus 1
If it's Helen Reddy in one of those habits, he should look for Karen Black as a flight attendant serving drinks to a tipsy Myrna Loy. Karen will be landing the plane, eventually.
Posted by gloomy gus on July 29, 2010 at 4:58 PM
gloomy gus 2
Oopsie, I forgot the obligatory:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV18ISPtV…
Posted by gloomy gus on July 29, 2010 at 4:59 PM
3
Oh relax, they're probably just suicide bombers in disguise.
Posted by FeralTurnip on July 29, 2010 at 5:25 PM
wisepunk 4
THERE IS ONLY ONE RIVER, THERE IS ONLY ONE STREAM!
Posted by wisepunk on July 29, 2010 at 5:51 PM
Urgutha Forka 5
The nuns are probably all whispering to each other, "Oh my god, there's a gay, sex-advice columnist on our flight - that's bad luck, isn't it?"
Posted by Urgutha Forka on July 29, 2010 at 6:07 PM
6
Must be traveling to Hawai'i. One of the few places in the US where I have run into nuns still wearing their form of the burka.
Posted by Fairhaven on July 29, 2010 at 6:54 PM
7
It's only a problem if one of them plays guitar and has her guitar on the plane. Or if she's due to retire tomorrow. That's also a bad sign.
Posted by Alice Dreger http://www.alicedreger.com on July 29, 2010 at 7:25 PM
emma's bee 8
@2: I feel so privileged to have grown up in the '70s.
Posted by emma's bee on July 29, 2010 at 7:39 PM
gijo by the bay 9
What if they are a high school football team in nun drag so Dan won't hit on them? Think about it....
Posted by gijo by the bay on July 29, 2010 at 7:43 PM
10
And the Nuns look to each other & say "Look- there's that snarky, bitter ol' 'Journalist-Wanne-Be Troll Dan Savage'! Isn't he bad luck to have on a flight?".

Dan- as a gay guy aged 42 who's been out since i was 15- i gotta say- you embarrass the fuck outa me, dude- as a gay man who is supposed to be a journalist, EPIC fail.
Posted by CheekyMonkey68 on July 29, 2010 at 7:56 PM
Canadian Nurse 11
@10: You do realise that all of your vitriol is going towards a post made by Bethany about a statement that Dan overheard, right?
Posted by Canadian Nurse on July 29, 2010 at 8:57 PM
CheekyMonkey68 12
Ooops. (face palms)
Epic fail on Monkey's part for mis-reading.
Thank you.
But - i still stand behind what i said about Dan. Sorry.
Cheers!

Posted by CheekyMonkey68 on July 29, 2010 at 9:49 PM
sirkowski 13
They're gonna rape Dan. For Jesus.
Posted by sirkowski http://www.missdynamite.com on July 29, 2010 at 10:00 PM
CheekyMonkey68 14
#13 Oh, thank you. I don't feel so bad about my gaffe now.
And i got a huge laugh out of that as well. Cheers!
Posted by CheekyMonkey68 on July 29, 2010 at 10:16 PM
15
I didn't think nuns used planes:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfrICFsKX…
Posted by carrma on July 29, 2010 at 11:51 PM
16
what an awkward exchange i just read
Posted by ya sup you're dumb monkey on July 30, 2010 at 2:32 AM
Timmytee 17
I'm sure in the early days of flying it was considered unlucky to have a woman on board.
Posted by Timmytee on July 30, 2010 at 2:58 AM
gloomy gus 18
@17, ha! No doubt. Or a Catholic or Jew or anyone not-quite-white.
Posted by gloomy gus on July 30, 2010 at 7:37 AM
CheekyMonkey68 19
#16 Nope, not a dumb monkey- but when i am, at least i own up to it.. as i did here.
Well- i mainly just wanted to snark at Dan and i mis-read as i said before. Still- to Dan: snark snark snark LOL
Posted by CheekyMonkey68 on July 30, 2010 at 1:37 PM

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