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Re: GW Bush's acid test on recent trip to Triangle, NC. Too bad it could not match the purple koolaid

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From: Bender
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 2004 08:21
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On Sun, 11 Jul 2004 03:37:30 -0400, Dweezil Dwarftosser
<f4wcs@yahoo.com> wrote:


>
>You are aware that no one in the Air Force ever uses the
>term "tarmac" to indicate any portion of the flightline,
>ramp, parking pad, taxiway, runway, or anything else?
>
>Bozo reporters, on the other hand,  evidently love to use the
>word, thinking it sounds as though it were airfield-related
>jargon.
>

from dictionary.com

tar�mac (t�rmk) n.  A tarmacadam road or surface, especially an
airport runway.

tarmacadam
adj : covered with paving material [syn: asphalt, macadam,
macadamized, tarmac]
n 1: a paving material of tar and broken stone; mixed in a factory and
shaped during paving [syn: tarmac] 2: a surface paved with compressed
layers of broken rocks held together with tar [syn: tarmac, macadam]
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Subject: Re: GW Bush's acid test on recent trip to Triangle, NC.  Too bad it  could not match the purple koolaid
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