First there was the Airbus announcement of further troubles for Airbus A380 deliveries which 2164th alertly picked up and cleverly blogged with a photo of an inverted A380 and a caption entitled "May Day, May Day, May Day." Subsequently, a Der Spiegel writer doing a story on Boeing's reactions, evidently found none but did find the Elephant Bar's "Mayday" schadenfreude. Not only did the Elephant Bar get a mention but 2164th's clever inversion of the Airbus photo was featured at the Speigel website.
Well, needless to say, things got very busy at the Elephant Bar when that airbus load of Germans landed. From around 11:00 a.m. thru the rest of the day the EB was swamped with dozens, possibly hundreds of foreigners, mostly from Germany but also from England, Italy, Eastern Europe, Australia, New Zealand and as far away as Kabul, Afghanistan. One customer, a Mr. 1bigmac1, a European airline employee, engaged in a lively exchange with Rufus on whether or not Europe is socialist. The debate escalated into virtual fisticuffs and as Mr. 1bigmac1 was leaving the EB, Teresita threw a beer bottle, hitting Mr. 1bigmac1 squarely in the back. It was an eventful ending to a busy day at the Elephant Bar and "a good time was had by all."A380-DEBAKEL
Bei Boeing-Fans grassiert die Schadenfreude
Von Matthias Streitz
Boeing held back itself yesterday and today elegantly - speakers and management avoided it to commentate the problems directly with airbus. Also in the Blog of Boeing marketing boss Randy Baseler is not a contribution to the concerns in Hamburg and Toulouse.
"Airbus? I see no Airbus"Amerikani fans and friends of Boeing am there less reserved. The political Blog "The Elephant bar" opens one with the heading "May Day, May Day, May Day" - and shows under it the picture head over flying A380. "the bad messages for EADS Chart will show still more badly", stand under it. Another American Blog contribution titelt: "airbus? I do not see Airbus". Der Boeing share having the breakdown messages of the rival already upward helped. At the New Yorker stock exchange the papers of the US manufacturer added Dow Jones 30 yesterday by 2,3 per cent and set themselves thereby in the guidance index to the point. Also on Wednesday Boeing in the early US trade forum forum airbus A380 won - (k)ein case for the Politik?Diskutieren it with other SPIEGEL-ONLINE-Lesern!248 of contributions, newest ones: Today, 11,58 clock of Dominik MenakkerBoeing shareholders speculate on the fact that the airbus problems could give a thrust to the competition model 747-8. Boeing had presented this revised variant of the jumbo jet at the end of of 2005. So far the Americans could in-collect 30 orders for the freight variant of their XXL jumbo jet - for those
Everyone raise your glass to 2164th for doing a fine job especially with the photos and artwork hanging in the Elephant Bar. He's already gotten international notice. Good job, Deuce!
(now as long as the muzzies don't see us....)
Neither Wretchard nor Runtchard can match that!
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1BigMac1 said...
ReplyDeletegak, gak, GAK!
"Airbus? Ich sehe keinen Airbus"
ReplyDeleteAmerikanische Fans und Freunde von Boeing sind da weniger zurückhaltend.
Das politische Blog "The Elephant Bar" macht mit der Überschrift "May Day, May Day, May Day" auf - und zeigt darunter das Bild eines kopfüber fliegenden A380. "Die schlechten Nachrichten für EADS werden noch schlimmer", steht darunter.
Ein anderer amerikanischer Blog-Beitrag titelt: "Airbus? Ich sehe keinen Airbus".
Der Boeing-Aktie haben die Pannen-Nachrichten des Rivalen bereits nach oben geholfen.
An der New Yorker Börse legten die Papiere des US-Herstellers gestern um 2,3 Prozent zu und setzten sich damit im Leitindex Dow Jones 30 an die Spitze.
Auch am Mittwoch gewann Boeing im frühen US-Handel.
Correction:
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macht mit der Überschrift
"May Day, May Day, May Day"
"Eine neue Concorde"
ReplyDeleteGotta be 1bigmac attack!
With Boeing fans the damage joy grassiert
ReplyDeleteUS ban sparks online gaming meltdown
ReplyDeleteThe online gambling sector was in meltdown in the UK on Monday morning, as the fallout from last week’s moves in the US to tighten anti-gambling laws sent shockwaves through the sector.
Legislation passed in Washington on Friday would outlaw the processing of bets taken on-line by banks and credit card companies. The act now only requires the signature of the US president to bring it into effect, a move which is expected in the next two weeks.
Rufus says:
I'll ply them with my song.
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"VIVYAN: He ordered pizza for us. He offered us beer, but we were minors at the time and we both declined. "
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Will the EB sponser me for the ElderPage tm Program?
Uhmmm! BEER!
The King is Dead!
ReplyDeleteLong live the King!!
You know what I'm Sayin?
ReplyDeleteGeorge Will writes
ReplyDeleteTo Rush Limbaugh's 20 million receptive listeners, Hastert, referring to Republicans as "we," said:
"We have a story to tell, and the Democrats have -- in my view have -- put this thing forward to try to block us from telling the story. They're trying to put us on defense.''
It is difficult to read that as other than an accusation: He seems to be not just confessing a cover-up, but also complaining that a cover-up was undone by bad manners. Were it not for Democrats' unsportsmanlike conduct in putting "this thing'' forward, it would not be known and would not be disrupting Republicans' storytelling...."
It's always someone else's fault, sorta like dealing with my 15 year old.
Mr Hastert and his crew should hit the highway, let Mr Bush use his veto pen, if the Dems pose such a risk, to US and America.
As I've heard on the radio
"A country boy can survive"
Remember, there is a story to tell, let's not allow reality to get in the way.
ReplyDeleteNo matter if it's in Baghdad or DC, Catch & Release, it's the Republican way.
Whether it's killing US troops or cyber stalking young boys...
Just don't "do it" again, okay?
Bob Novak continues on this story that many thought:
ReplyDelete"Won't last a week"
But by this week, Republicans were turning on their own leaders with difficult questions. Why did the unusual attention paid to teenage boys by a homosexual man not flash warning signals? Why did Shimkus not alert his Democratic counterpart on the page board, Rep. Dale Kildee of Michigan? Above all, why was Foley urged to run again?
These questions are being asked by not only rank-and-file House members but by elected members of the leadership. Indeed, Hastert, Majority Leader John Boehner and Majority Whip Roy Blunt all were acting disjointedly as the scandal broke this week (with Boehner publicly declaring it was the speaker's responsibility). The failure of the 109th Congress to satisfy the Republican conservative base seems linked to failure to deal effectively with Mark Foley.
I am Libby,
ReplyDeletethe Exception that proves the rule.
The Hardball Political Warrior is prosecuted.
ReplyDeleteThe Hardballs sleazy easy gets a pass in Ophraworld.
Courtesy DC Trogs.
"My church made me do it."
ReplyDeleteThat and that damned Rufus and his
Ethanol.
Those are the "conservative" columnists. The "other" side just talks about "process", not sex.
ReplyDeleteThe "management" of the House, just as Ms Noonan foresaw with regards Iraq.
But with SEX as the under current, it plays, for the Dems, so much sweeter.
Pelosi, Rangel, Murtha, Leaky Leahy.
ReplyDeleteConyers
ReplyDeleteHillary, JFK2, Algore.
ReplyDeleteI didn't think the story would last a week either. Wrong again. What is the story? Homosexual congressman comes on to young homsexuals, near-homosexuals or not-sure-homosexuals.(choose one). These so called children are at best having a giggle or playing hide the weenie on the keyboard. You have a billion people on the internet and most are not doing reasearch papers. Got to go. It sounds like a case of "IMcumming" to me.
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ReplyDeleteIngraham:
ReplyDeleteYou are saying categorically that neither you or your staff knew anything about this?
Mr. Speaker: (Editor Caint remember... too late, too hard)
Ingraham:
Foley was stopped under the influence trying to get into the page dormitory.
Mr. Speaker: (Editor Caint remember... too late, too hard)
That Editor be me.
Jeesh.
Vast left Wing Conspiracy.
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Ingraham,
Santorum, Steele, all punished for the transgressions of the trolls.
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Speaker:
When we found out about the IM's, we put a stop to it.
Did you delete the 1bigmac1 comments?
ReplyDeleteI cant find them anywhere...
I missed all the fireworks I guess.
Hats off to ya, deuce
The big mac is under May Day May Day. nice to see you back pastry, check in more often. We have mandatory formations over here.
ReplyDeleteHere ya go darkpastry
ReplyDeleteParade Rest!
ReplyDeleteMay day, may day, in the comments about 2/3rds down
ReplyDeletethe mac attack is still there.
Oh, bears shit in the woods
Preeesent, Penuses!
ReplyDeleteat ease, doug
ReplyDeleteWe'll have to dut down on your dose of vitamin V
ReplyDeleteWhew!
ReplyDeleteI thot we were at wowa.
good to know.
Doug, you know anything about the wretchard impersonator? it is very funny. I think you should do one as C-4.1.
ReplyDeleteAt Ease, Indeed.
ReplyDeleteC-4.1 on Web 2.0
ReplyDeleteBack to Ophra,
ReplyDeletezzzzzz,
the heat of the meat is inverse to the angle of the dangle
ReplyDeletei suspect that well-known shape-shifter habu is at the root of "runtchard".
ReplyDeleteMike Gallagher trades 1 hour of Air Time in exchange for the Kansas Church Wackos not F....... with the Grieving Amish Mourners.
ReplyDeleteGood trade, listen to Gallagher interview the wackos.
why?
ReplyDeleteDead GIs are god's wraith for not killing homos.
That is their spiel, to hell with them and their god.
Hastert has canceled all fund raising for the week.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Gallagher will slice and dice them?
ReplyDeleteBeats bothering the mourners.
I'm all for him giving them the time, but why listen?
ReplyDeleteRadio time is a wierd commodity.
Basicly worthless, but it can achieve outlandish multiples.
Clear Channel, it's been reported, wants to sell more than a few of it's radio stations.
Guess you heard Howard Stern is wanting out of SatRad & hoping to get back into TerRad.
ReplyDeleteThat was a rumor, buddy, last I saw it was denied. But it's hard to say for sure, in the entertainment business. Could sirius become a program syndicator, for ter radio. Better believe it.
ReplyDeleteSat radio is like HBO, but you have to buy a special TV. When the subscriber is fed ads, they feel ripped off, which, in a way, they are.
But advertising often ads editorial value to a media product.
As I told wretchard, at the beginning of the two post requests,
Content is King
Long live the King!
you bet--channels are increasing in number and capacity at orders of magnitude greater rates than content availability.
ReplyDeleteI've been holding a small block of Sirius for it seems like forever, waiting for what i do not know.
ReplyDeleteProximately, to get back to the 7 i paid for it--tho that is a false proposition--only the price today and tommorrow are within the realm of action.
ReplyDeleteMr.2164th,
ReplyDeleteCongrats!
2164...CONGRATS a million times..Your Elephant Bar is no an International Meeting Place....and you sir coordinates,nurtured , and brought to fruition this free press watering hole....
ReplyDeleteThe very best,
Habu
Well, buddy, I'm in at five, rode it to nine.five, was aimin' for ten.
ReplyDeleteHolding at 4 and some, last I looked.
Howard is still an undervalued asset. A Sirius terrestial show could be the backbone of a whole network of programing options.
Still a superior option than XM, to listen to or own, I think.
I agree--and they've got that winner CEO--both co's stocks got ho-hum when the auto mfr's announced factory installs, and the stocks didn't catch fire. Circles come 'round, tho.
ReplyDeleteruins, that's the prob--habu sent him to the "school of electrocution". now he's skeered of fences.
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