The remaining lunch-time links don’t form a unifyable theme, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t worth following:
- Wither PSA? Remember the days when it was cheap to fly? Not so much, anymore. The WSJ has an interesting piece on how Southwest’s prices aren’t so discount these days. Evidently, they are cheap if you by far in advance, but as you get closer to the flight, the price goes up until they sometimes exceed the non-discount carriers, even if you add in baggage fees. In other airline news: American Airlines has stopped accepting bulky strollers at its gates. So evidently, you need to pack your child in your carry-on luggage (actually, you can still use umbrella strollers, just not the really big, over 20 lb ones).
- Seeing Red. An interesting “frequent flyer” story from an opthamologist who operates a flying eye hospital. He flies into poor countries, often on commercial flights, but flies out on the eye hospital. This creates all sorts of security questions. They often don’t believe there is a flying eye hospital, but there is: a DC-10 jet that’s fully equipped to teach and provide eye care no matter where they are in the world.
- Dennys. Seven boys from Trabuco High in Orange County have attempted to get into the Guiness Book of World Records by eating Denny’s pancakes for 24 hours! You see, Dennys has an “all you can eat” pancake special, and their goal was to to order it for $4 , and then to continue ordering refills — for 24 hours straight. They ended up consuming 301 pancakes, for an average of 43 hotcakes per person — or about 7,000 calories per kid for the pancakes alone. To break up the routine, the boys occasionally ordered bacon. They ate so many pancakes that the Denny’s manager had to run out during the night for more ingredients for batter. One kid vomited in a bush on the patio, and another almost fell asleep on the toilet. For variety, the boys put hot sauce on the pancakes. One crushed a hotcake into a glass of water to “eat” it in a different form. Don’t feel like pancakes? Dennys’ is offering a sundae made with vanilla ice cream, maple syrup and bacon bits.
- The End. Just because no one has posted it yet: Jack Kevorkian has died, unassisted.
