# Scrooge is booted off of an American Airlines flight

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [December 27, 2014, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrooge-is-booted-off-of-an-american-airlines-flight/708309 "2014-12-27T23:11:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2015, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrooge-is-booted-off-of-an-american-airlines-flight/708309/21 "2015-01-03T05:52:47Z")

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> [@Tread](#):
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> Probably a rant about irregardless not being a word. 😃

It would be an incorrect rant, then.

[https://www.google.com/search?q=irregardless&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-Address&ie=&oe=&gws\_rd=ssl](https://www.google.com/search?q=irregardless&sourceid=ie7&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-Address&ie=&oe=&gws_rd=ssl)

However, bitter as it is, the point is well taken. Quite amusingly, I oft pride myself on never using the _word_.

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**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2015, 5:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrooge-is-booted-off-of-an-american-airlines-flight/708309/22 "2015-01-03T05:54:18Z")

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> [@TBG](#):
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> He’d still be in the wrong, though. The proper thing to do is, if you celebrate something else say “happy festivus” or whatever, or else just say “thanks” and go about your day. Giving a lecture to someone just being friendly is assholish whether you then go crazy on them after the lecture or not.

Not everybody is friendly, you know.

Many of my friends call me ‘wittyharry’.

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**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\
**Post date:** [January 3, 2015, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrooge-is-booted-off-of-an-american-airlines-flight/708309/23 "2015-01-03T14:21:04Z")

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> [@Baker](#):
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> Then he got agressive when the flight attendant inside also said “Merry Christmas.” Screaming, ranting, acting scary. It was decided he wasn’t safe to have aboard so security ushered him off the plane.
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> Sometimes things _ **do** _ have a happy ending!😃

> [@Muffin](#):
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> Was it rolling or in flight when they ushered him?

They dropped him onto the treadmill. Boy, if they thought he was screaming and ranting _before_…

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**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2015, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrooge-is-booted-off-of-an-american-airlines-flight/708309/24 "2015-01-05T20:44:38Z")

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Lucky the guy didn’t respond this way to NYC cops!

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**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\
**Post date:** [January 6, 2015, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrooge-is-booted-off-of-an-american-airlines-flight/708309/25 "2015-01-06T23:11:53Z")

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> [@MyFootsZZZ](#):
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> Well, I for one, don’t care when people wish me a Merry Christmas. There was a time, however, when it irked me, so when a complete stranger said “Marry Christmas” out of the blue…

Ah, so you are one of those merry=marry=Mary nutters.  
😉

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