Monday, February 1, 2010

Amazing Constantinople it Isn't

How many mistakes can one travel writer make in a single paragraph?  This minor marvel of journalistic feature writing appears in the British Airways high life in-flight magazine  January 2010 edition in the section "Navigator Intelligence"...

Please write to Tim Hulse, acting editor high.life@cedarcom.co.uk - saying that Nikos World  (O level geography grade c) sent you.
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  1. El DienteFebruary 1, 2010 at 5:26 PM

    Is that bit of yellow "stuff" on the bottom of the page a partly chewed peanut spat out in disgust?

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  2. NikosFebruary 1, 2010 at 5:43 PM

    El D,
    Well spotted but sadly BA don't even give peanuts out these days on "full service" 2 hour flights to Vienna. In fact that was probably a partly masicated fragment of sunflower seed from the skybitesgold branded package of budgy food that proclaims fly, nibble, enjoy.

    N

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  3. NikosFebruary 1, 2010 at 5:46 PM

    *****update*****

    News from the forensic lab - yellow stuff is "savoury bite" but chemically similar to Travelodge scramble eggs.

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  4. El DienteFebruary 2, 2010 at 4:31 PM

    Yummy!

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  5. Gadjo DiloFebruary 4, 2010 at 7:55 AM

    Of course if they'd put speech marks around "in Europe" then they'd have gotten away with it. Or added "allegedly".

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  6. NikosFebruary 4, 2010 at 10:26 PM

    Hello Gadjo

    If Israel can enter the Eurovision song contest then you could say that Asia Minor is in "Europe", but Ankara is the capital of Turkey and my Great Aunt is Bulgarian!!

    And Istanbul is in Europe!!!

    N of the Hellespont

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