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"As we hit the treetops, jump out of the plane quickly!"
(Pilot Peter Manser in New Guinea, giving jungle crash-landing instructions,
 in The Bush Pilots, Time-Life editors, 1983)
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"This can of spices is not totally stale! Tell me, Doctor, do you smell... Pies?"
(Ptomkin, assistant Pharmacognosist - strip 335 of Dr. Barnacle and the Banana Fiends)
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"...One more night of this and I shall be ready for the madhouse.
These South Sea Islands aren't all what they're made out to be."
(Algy, in Biggles in the South Seas by Captain W. E. Johns, 1940)
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"Great minds think in the same volcano craters."
(Osgood Weems, 1927)
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"They are ill discoverers that think there is no land,
when they can see nothing but sea."
(from The Advancement of Learning, by Francis Bacon)
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"...Jacques Schneider's original wish to promote interest
in seaplaning had degenerated into a madcap struggle for
speed supremacy using planes built only for racing
and good for nothing else."
(from 'The Story of the Schneider Trophy Race' in This Was Air Travel
by Henry R.Palmer, Jr. - 1962)
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Q: "How do you find out when there is a pilot in the room?"
A: "She will make sure to let you know."
(Old airport joke, via Mauricio Tavares, 2008 - with a modification)
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"The roar that poured from the clipped exhaust stacks
mixed with the blat of the props as they bit into the spray
and created a din that could be heard for miles, a long, high pitched howl
that sent shivers of delight through the crowds lining the shore."
(from 'The Story of the Schneider Trophy Race' in This Was Air Travel
by Henry R.Palmer, Jr. - 1962)
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"The Italian planes, blowing black smoke from their exhausts,
their engines screaming, cut the pylons wide, while the Americans
in their more maneuverable ships banked vertically around them."
(1926 from 'The Story of the Schneider Trophy Race' in This Was Air Travel
by Henry R.Palmer, Jr. - 1962)
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"In honor of the Tai Erh Chwang victory, he wore his full-dress
uniform. On one lapel was pinned a CIO Transit Workers button
which had somehow gotten into China."
(From Murder, Chop Chop by James Norman, 1941)
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"The students zigzagged across the field on foot,
elbows extended like wings and dipping from side to side."
(From Murder, Chop Chop by James Norman, 1941)
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"Her," said Nevada. "She's a coyote if I ever seen one!"
(Nevada in Murder, Chop Chop by James Norman, 1941)
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"...I've not had the slightest desire to return to Europe.
It's not easy to explain.  You'll grant that a satisfactory life
must be based on reality? I find reality here."
(Dr Kersaint in The Hurricane by Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall, 1936)
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"I am always careful, that's why I'm here on
the damn Island with the ukeleles and the grass skirts
 and not back home where I belong."
(Mr. Maddock, in Think Fast, Mr. Moto, by J.P. Marquand)
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"...And security is not enough: far from it! The people of these
islands have been taught better. They live in the present, enjoying
the simple occurrences of each day as it comes."
(Dr Kersaint in The Hurricane by Charles Nordhoff & James Norman Hall, 1936)
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"Wild flowers, including many species of orchids,
grew in luxuriant profusion among giant maidenhair ferns,
and hung in garlands from tree-ferns. Thousands of guinea-pigs
scampered away in front of them."
(Biggles in the South Seas by Captain W. E. Johns, 1940)
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"The fronds of the palms clattered in the steady trade winds
above their heads like the flapping wings of unseen birds."
(Think Fast, Mr. Moto, by J.P. Marquand)
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"He puts the famous in blasphemous."
( Mauser, on his Whiteboard )
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"Amuse yourself, please, after this. Bathe in the warm seas.
See the other pretty girls. Listen to the lovely music.
Sit in the sun and think, but not about this affair, Mr. Hitchings.
You are out of it now."
(Mr. Moto, in Think Fast, Mr. Moto, by J.P. Marquand)
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"You're a palpable fact, Miss Hitchings, and I have
always been told to stick close to palpable facts."
(Wilson Hitchings in Think Fast, Mr. Moto, by J.P. Marquand)
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"Anyone that animals speak to, or offer aid to, wins."
(Joseph Campbell)
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"Kokovoko - an island far away to the South and West.
It is not down in any map; true places never are."
('Ishmael' in Moby Dick, via Herman Melville)
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"The Island had changed from
a distant, pagan paradise of gods and drums to
an outpost of a nation that was half a fortress, half a garden."
(Think Fast, Mr. Moto, by J.P. Marquand)
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"Annual Earnings [USA circa 1933]: Stenographer/bookkeeper, $936;
Registered Nurse, $936; Doctor, $3382; Railroad Exectutive, $5064;
Airline Stewardess, $1500; Airline Pilot, $8000."
(This Fabulous Century 4: 1930-1940, Editors of Time-Life Books)
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"Always make the game interesting for the referee,
or he'll make it interesting for himself."
(D.L. Arneson)
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" Tour Book - The Ireland of Dr. Moreau "
( Mauser, on his Whiteboard )
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"Everyone talks about the rich, but nobody eats them!"
(Billiam Goodfellow, circa 1930)
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"Well, your heart's in the right place. That'll make it easier to hit."
( Mauser, on his Whiteboard )
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"A little well gotten will do us more good
Than lordships and scepters by Rapine and Blood."
( R. Saunders, his Almanac )
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"Never play pool with a man who brings his own table."
( Erik Baker, quoted in the WORDS WORDS WORDS blog )
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"<Homing in on your destination by radio bearings>
always sounded very reassuring in publicity releases.
We pilots knew better and wondered if our superiors did."
(Horace Brock, Pan Am seaplane pilot, in Flying the Oceans, his autobiography)
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"It will only take three or four days, unless it takes longer."
(From the Casino Island Clinic -- as reported by D.L.Arneson)
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"After the feast the young men, decked with flowers,
appeared with guitars, ukuleles, and a kerosene drum...."
(from My Samoan Chief by Fay G. Calkins)
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"Golly!"
(Miss Amelia Bourne-Phipps, as heard by several reputable witnesses, circa 1936.)
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"Tillamooka feasting & folkways may account for the arrival of
"Potlatch Claws"and her visiting canoe fleet during Winter Solstice."
(from "A Plausible Relation of the Spontoonie Isles"  by Walter E. Traprock, F.R.S.S.E.U.)
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"It's not their fault: They were banana bred."
(Tally Time At the Banana Boat by Dr. Morris Barnacle, DDS)
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"Impossible People: The aviator who said, 'Jump!'
when asked what was the last word in aeroplanes."
(Elizabeth Hayklan, cartoonist, Impossible People (by JERI), circa 1934)
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"Be careful! The ancient pyramids are rife with secret traps!"
(Myra Foxworthy, Aridia's Minister of Culture in a Tale Spin episode)
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"Impossible People: The man who thanked the pilot
for the two flights--his first and last."
(Elizabeth Hayklan, cartoonist: Impossible People (by JERI ), circa 1934)
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"But those guns had been put on only to cope with
Chinese bandits and bong-piaus -pirates- who endangered
peacetime commercial flying."
(The Three Mosquitos by Ralph Oppenheim - circa 1940)
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"A man making his first Transpacific hop as chief pilot
should tend to his knitting, particularly if his work on this hop
would decide his superiors to keep him on."
(Transpacific Plunder by Frederick Painton, in Argosy magazine 12 September, 1936 )
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"The Clams! The Clams in the walls!"
(At the Minneapolis of Madness by J.Maxwell Young)
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