# Dead People flying a Plane **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 25, 1999, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-people-flying-a-plane/9986 "1999-10-25T16:54:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 1999, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-people-flying-a-plane/9986/41 "1999-10-27T05:34:00Z")
Flora: Actually, I got the reference. Maybe you didn’t get my reference of the reference. The villagers with torches in Frankenstein were motivated by ignorance and fear, because they didn’t understand the monster. I assumed you were smart enough to understand that reference and apply it to us, indicating that those of us who disagree with you are doing so out of ignorance and without thought. Sorry if I misunderstood the depth of your thinking. ---
**Author:** ![Dirty\_Devil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a3d4f5/32.png) [@Dirty\_Devil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dirty_Devil)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 1999, 5:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-people-flying-a-plane/9986/42 "1999-10-27T05:35:00Z")
Wow, Flora. You just blew the respect I had for you with that comment. What a cold, bitchy thing to say. You are, indeed, an icy old woman. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 1999, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-people-flying-a-plane/9986/43 "1999-10-27T05:40:00Z")
I always thought the villagers with the torches were motivated by the fact that the Monster was, y’know, murdering them. * * * Uke ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 1999, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-people-flying-a-plane/9986/44 "1999-10-27T05:41:00Z")
Sorry, semantically incorrect. KILLING them. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 1999, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-people-flying-a-plane/9986/45 "1999-10-27T05:54:00Z")
I guess you folks wouldn’t have appreciated my husband’s spirited rendition of “Ghost Riders in the Sky” last night, then. 😉 This is without a doubt one of the creepiest things I’ve ever heard, but I do think you’re being a little hard on Flora. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 1999, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-people-flying-a-plane/9986/46 "1999-10-27T05:56:00Z")
I guess God could send Flora to the bbQ pit! ---
**Author:** ![Sylence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Sylence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylence)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 1999, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-people-flying-a-plane/9986/47 "1999-10-26T18:00:00Z")
Hey, Flora, what about all those people who chalk up their victory to Nike shoes or Big Bertha drivers? Wouldn’t it be ironic if Michael Jordan died when a semi full of Air Jordans overturned on the freeway? Would you get a warm glow out of that? I see more damn commercials pushing shoes in my face than I have to put up with people talking about God. My opinion of you just hit negative numbers. – Sylence * * * And now, for my next trick, I will talk in spooky half-references. ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 1999, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-people-flying-a-plane/9986/48 "1999-10-26T18:25:00Z")
That would be ironic, and hilarious in my opinion. You guys act like death is a big deal or something. We’re all gonna bite it at some point, some of us in ways that may be tragicly comic. ---
**Author:** ![Sylence](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b19c9b/32.png) [@Sylence](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sylence)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 1999, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-people-flying-a-plane/9986/49 "1999-10-26T19:11:00Z")
Yes, but feeling happy about it? – Sylence * * * And now, for my next trick, I will talk in spooky half-references. ---
**Author:** ![pricciar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@pricciar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pricciar)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 1999, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-people-flying-a-plane/9986/50 "1999-10-26T20:21:00Z")
Flora never said she was happy about the death, just that she feels the warm glow of irony. I don’t agree or disagree with her, I just think alot of people were shocked by what she said because people are so used to hearing only good things said about people after they die. pat ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 1999, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-people-flying-a-plane/9986/51 "1999-10-26T20:27:00Z")
Good point, pricciar. And I’m still waiting for manhattan to tell the joke about knickers-boy. ---
**Author:** ![manhattan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manhattan/32/7_2.png) [@manhattan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manhattan)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 1999, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-people-flying-a-plane/9986/52 "1999-10-26T20:35:00Z")
FTR, I wasn’t shocked by anything. Flora’s post was simply factually incorrect regarding the specifics of Stewart’s spirituality, and I thought it ought to be set straight. And, OK, **Ike** , but only for you. Don’t tell anybody. What were Payne Stewart’s last words? ## “I should have used a driver.” Livin’ on Tums, Vitamin E and Rogaine ---
**Author:** ![jab1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ee7513/32.png) [@jab1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jab1)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 1999, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-people-flying-a-plane/9986/53 "1999-10-26T23:29:00Z")
On “CBS This Morning”, they said the Air Force would have shot down the plane if it had strayed over a populated area. * * * Those who do not learn from the past are condemned to relive it. Georges Santayana ---
**Author:** ![Jodi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7feea3/32.png) [@Jodi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jodi)\ **Post date:** [October 27, 1999, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-people-flying-a-plane/9986/54 "1999-10-27T16:41:00Z")
In addition to the victims, I also feel very sorry for the jet pilots. One of them way talking about how helpless he felt, flying next to the plane, knowing that the people in it were incapacitated and were probably going to die when the plane inevitably crashed, and he was 50 feet away and there wasn’t one thing he could do to help them. I don’t know that I could ever get over that. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dead-people-flying-a-plane/9986.md?page=2)