Re: [aus-soaring] BORING Or was it really gliding.

[Patrick Miller]

You really had to be around when the newsgroup seemed to be dominated by anti-GFA anti-CASA anti-AG diatribes and rebuttals to appreciate BORING old gliding reports. I always scan my inbox for the boring ones first. I like traditions like calling someone "Lofty" who is really vertically challenged, or "Bluey" for someone with red hair, or the myriad of other apparently contradictory catchwords. Even "terrific" started out meaning something rather less than "good". Listen to what kids say when they think something is really excellent. I might be out of date but I've heard "sick" recently meaning "wonderful".   Of course it's got nothing to do with my day gig as a heritage bureaucrat, but maybe an interim protection order on the use of BORING while we assess its cultural heritage significance is not such a bad idea.   Nah! I'd much rather do some boring old gliding. After all, I'm a paddock landing short of my C (which sounds like one of those great Oz expressions meaning "not all there"!)   Patrick