Side note: You WILL be asked to divulge your weight and it WILL be written on your ticket in big red figures. If you choose to lie about your weight, you might feel a bit of panic as the plane takes off, worrying that everybody else might have lied, too. Not that I have any exp...
That whole digression reminds me of an internet meme I read recently that said that the first fax machine was invented in 1843 and it was called an electric printing telegraph. That’s thirty years BEFORE the Revolutionary War, just to put things into linear perspective. I was reading about ...