"Bert Sweeney" wrote in message
news:m3LXe.2037$3S3.1084@bignews4.bellsouth.net...
> The wife and I want to go down to Disney World in December. Took the kids
> many times when they were growing up and had a lot of good times. We
> always flew Eastern, the official airline of WDW. Now that we retired the
> wife and I want to go see Mickey by ourselves. We want to fly the L-1011
> Whisperliner because we know that is the quietest plane in the sky. It
> can fly automatically without the need for pilots, it takes off and lands
> by itself. They even got those little closets to hang up your jacket
> between the seats. I was looking in the phone book for the number to the
> Eastern airlines reservations to book our tickets but had a hard time
> getting through. One place I called I got a Cuban who couldn't speak
> English. When I told him I wanted to book tickets to Orlando on Eastern
> he started yelling something about "El Grandote" and Celia Cruz. Does
> anyone know what that is all about?
>
> Anyone know the number to Eastern reservations???
Eastern Airlines is run by a bastard named Frank Lorenzo, Bert.
Celia Cruz is the former president of Cuba. Her husband, Pedro Knight, was
a former African slave. He used to run Eastern Airlines before the
revolution. His nickname was El Grandote, which means The Really Big One.
It was a reference to the size of his manhood. You know what say about
African Americans.
When the revolution started Celia and Pedro got all Eastern planes they
could out of Havana. They say Celia was a great pilot, and the US used her
several times to try to bring down the Castro government. She flew many
missions across the Florida Straight, flying low to avoid the radar, to
smuggle arms into Cuba.
President Reagan honored them with the Presidential Medal of Freedom back in
the 80's.
They live in Key West and are still flying missions to Cuba.
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