# OK. Can we make that the last of the goddamn planes to come down on NYC this year? **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [November 14, 2001, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-can-we-make-that-the-last-of-the-goddamn-planes-to-come-down-on-nyc-this-year/93228 "2001-11-14T00:59:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dalovindj](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@dalovindj](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalovindj)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2001, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-can-we-make-that-the-last-of-the-goddamn-planes-to-come-down-on-nyc-this-year/93228/1 "2001-11-14T00:59:44Z")
Enough. Fate, God, Terrorists, Cigarette Smoking Man, what-the-fuck-ever has control over this shit: Enough is E-fucking-nuff. It’s like I’m watching a movie where New York is getting pounded, only I can smell the explosions from my house. Please, give us an uneventful Holiday season. I just want to chill . . . DaLovin’ Dj ---
**Author:** ![Xploder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a183cd/32.png) [@Xploder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Xploder)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2001, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-can-we-make-that-the-last-of-the-goddamn-planes-to-come-down-on-nyc-this-year/93228/2 "2001-11-14T01:00:54Z")
A-fucking-men. ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2001, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-can-we-make-that-the-last-of-the-goddamn-planes-to-come-down-on-nyc-this-year/93228/3 "2001-11-14T01:13:46Z")
I’ll drink to that. ---
**Author:** ![Rosebud](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rosebud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rosebud)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2001, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-can-we-make-that-the-last-of-the-goddamn-planes-to-come-down-on-nyc-this-year/93228/4 "2001-11-14T01:22:10Z")
A-double-fucking-men. If I never hear a news anchor say “all bridges and tunnels into the city are closed” again it’ll be too damn soon. ---
**Author:** ![alice\_in\_wonderland](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alice_in_wonderland/32/176_2.png) [@alice\_in\_wonderland](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alice_in_wonderland)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2001, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-can-we-make-that-the-last-of-the-goddamn-planes-to-come-down-on-nyc-this-year/93228/5 "2001-11-14T01:25:38Z")
How’sa 'bout no planes ANYWHERE coming down for the rest of the year. I’ll drink to that! ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2001, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-can-we-make-that-the-last-of-the-goddamn-planes-to-come-down-on-nyc-this-year/93228/6 "2001-11-14T01:56:15Z")
The Onion, when it came back from hiatus after 9/11, had the headline, “Life turns into bad Jerry Bruckheimer movie.” Would that make this the crappy sequel with the same plot that isn’t as big as the original? ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2001, 2:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-can-we-make-that-the-last-of-the-goddamn-planes-to-come-down-on-nyc-this-year/93228/7 "2001-11-14T02:02:39Z")
The indubitable **Hamadryad** shared this link with me in my LJ, and it pretty much sums it up: [An Open Letter to God](http://www.tomatonation.com/openletter.asp). ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2001, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-can-we-make-that-the-last-of-the-goddamn-planes-to-come-down-on-nyc-this-year/93228/8 "2001-11-14T02:07:48Z")
Here’s hoping… ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2001, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-can-we-make-that-the-last-of-the-goddamn-planes-to-come-down-on-nyc-this-year/93228/9 "2001-11-14T03:21:33Z")
Please. Pretty please. ---
**Author:** ![galen\_ubal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/galen_ubal/32/4440_2.png) [@galen\_ubal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/galen_ubal)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2001, 3:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-can-we-make-that-the-last-of-the-goddamn-planes-to-come-down-on-nyc-this-year/93228/10 "2001-11-14T03:31:03Z")
Definitely. I’m getting tired of wincing every time I hear the words “…New York City today…” And I’m VERY tired of it being the first thing I see on the news. I’d like to go back to my old conception of NYC as an intersting place I’d like to visit, but only briefly - no slam to NYCers, I’m just a small town boy. But I’d like to think of it as THE Big City, not as a tragic place. ---
**Author:** ![Hamish](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a5b964/32.png) [@Hamish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamish)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2001, 7:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ok-can-we-make-that-the-last-of-the-goddamn-planes-to-come-down-on-nyc-this-year/93228/11 "2001-11-14T07:06:18Z")
Ugh… I wonder who will be the first to call this one God’s vengeance – Falwell or bin Laden? ☹