Air anyone?
The Note is chuffed with a follow-up we received to last week’s pondering aloud about Perth landmark, Jacobs Ladder.
While our article offered a few cheeky suggestions on how the 100-year-old, stairway-cum-fitness-centre could be taken into the modern era, an avid reader relayed the best idea for the hillside pedestrian corridor.
“What you need is an oxygen bottle at the top,” said the reader, a Jacobs regular.
The Note presumes this would come dispensed automatically for a fee? Maybe also offering heart monitoring and the direct transfusion of isotonic liquids?
Smooth operator
The Note has always been bemused by the American practice of having promotional numbers like 1300-NEWSYSTUFF. As if anyone really remembers that?
However, a colleague provided us with a far more useful example this week: that of Captain Trevor Jensen, a pilot with Flight Safety Foundation.
In asking all the tough questions about FSF’s air safety program, our intrepid reporter got to the best of them all – why does Capt Jensen’s mobile telephone number end with 767 767?
“Is that coincidence or what?” the question was posed. Nope, responded our Bigglesque aviator, the number was from ancient times when Capt Jensen worked with long-gone Ansett and its Boeing 767 fleet had been grounded because of maintenance issues.
After the event, a mate in Telstra gave him the number so he could easily remember it. The Note reckons some people have all the smooth landings.