"Pete" wrote:
>"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.
Celia Cruz used to do TV commercials for Eastern way back when. There
was a whole salsa band playing in first class with Celia singing.
Too bad she was never on any of my flights. |