Fair Dinkum

[Abe]

It's a phrase that's been uttered by both President George W. Bush and actor Paul Hogan, but Delta Air Lines apparently still doesn't like it said on its flights.

The term in question is the benign Australian phrase “fair dinkum,” which as an adjective means “real” and as an expression means “Seriously?” or “For real?”

Aussie Sophie Reynolds muttered the idiom this week on her Delta connection flight on SkyWest Airlines when she rejected the snack crackers offered, asked for pretzels instead and was told there weren’t any.

One person’s trash is another person’s treasure — and in this case, one person’s slang was another person’s swear word. The flight attendant misunderstood what Reynolds said and thought she was cursing at her.

The crew asked for her passport and told her swearing at attendants was against the law.

When Reynolds, 41, emerged from the plane in Pittsburgh, Pa., there were three uniformed police officers waiting for her to tell her about the federal rules prohibiting cursing at the flight crew.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292920,00.html

[monkey spanners]

Sadly people see what they expect to see (or hear) If someone expects to be sworn at, swearing they will hear.

jon

[monkey spanners]

Well, that killed that one stone dead LOL

[Brian_UK]

I suppose she was lucky not to have landed in the UK.

Our lot would have had a field day