Is That a Bomb or a Tumor?
TSA screeners already pat us down and scan our bodies, notes Ricky Sprague, so they might as well do a "brief but thorough" medical exam while they're at it. At When Falls the Coliseum, Sprague explains why "combining our healthcare and airline terrorism solutions is a winning idea whose time has finally come."
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Let's not give them any ideas... even in jest.
"It's naht a tuumohr."
Stop whining! You kids are soft. You lack discipline!
There EES no BAHTHROOM!!!!!
Great idea, but unfair to those who don't fly often. Maybe we should have flight vouchers as well (to government aproved destinations of course).
When they take criminal's DNA they should probably screen them for genetic diseases as well.
""(to government aproved destinations of course).""
Is hell an actual destination?
I remember reading just a few months ago that the british government was considering giving vacation vouchers to poor people because they need vacations too.
It would be comic gold to stand in line behind Arnold while he's saying, it's not a tumor.
That's not a tumor. ... THIS is a tumor!
Hey, why not?
Warning: Synaptic seepage detected ... Welcome to Newark
/obscure?
Whoa.
Reviewers pan the movie but I like it.
Sir, I'm going to have to ask you to step in to the proton beam therapy line.
Great, now they'll start confiscating polyps along with nailclippers.
The TSA does indeed frown upon deadly obesity
Abominable!
Excellent! And while we're at it, we'll make the patdown a massage!
It would be comic gold to stand in line behind Arnold while he's saying, it's not a tumor.
Is hell an actual destination?
Great, now they'll start confiscating polyps along with nailclippers.
Just have people lie down and get rolled through a CAT scan instead of a metal detector.
The cat scan will pick up any bombs they have hidden about their intestines, as well as any tumors.
Is that a bomb or a breast? This merits closer examination...
You think this is a laugh? Just wait till some terrorist decided to have a bomb surgically implanted in his guts... then the whiners will all be screaming for CAT scans too. You think I'm kidding? Just go back to '95 (pre Valu-Jet) and suggest that one should have to present an ID to get on a plane... people would have laughed in your face.
"Just go back to '95 (pre Valu-Jet) and suggest that one should have to present an ID to get on a plane... people would have laughed in your face."
those were the times....
"Watch out! He's got an appendix and it's armed and ready to blow! Everybody back!"
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