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Curling also boasts its own lingo. Some of Flyby’s favorites...
...rules are largely unchanged from that first small competition. Participants ("Mo Bros", in the Movember lingo) organize as individuals or on teams to grow the best mustache they can during the month of November, raising money from sponsors. Movember has even invented a way for women to participate - "Mo Sistas" support the cause and raise money on their own, with some sporting a mustache necklace (which consists of small mustache emblems available in a variety of colors and styles). (See video of the battle of the beards...
...typical, understated aviation lingo, the pilots of Northwest Airlines Flight 188 suffered a "loss of situational awareness" on Oct. 21 when their plane shot past its destination, Minneapolis, and continued flying for another 150 miles. After the flight from San Diego with 149 people aboard spent some 78 minutes out of contact with air-traffic control - a period that reportedly ended only when a concerned flight attendant contacted the pilots by intercom - the plane turned around over Wisconsin and landed safely. The pilots told authorities they were discussing "airline policy" during their odd detour, though many observers believe a more...
Catching crabs is bad in any context, but can be especially so for rowers. For the uninformed, such crew lingo may be startling, but it’s just a sample of what will be heard this upcoming weekend at the 45th Annual Head of the Charles Regatta...
...longer have to wait “16 in” until the next shuttle. The shuttleboy text message system – a lifesaver for the many quad residents who have misplaced their shuttle cards on a rainy day – has changed its text message lingo. The once bootleg responses that abbreviated minutes as “in” instead of “min” and often ended with an ellipsis of four periods has started to respond to texts with far more normal parlance...