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Phil and his sick bag collection - Source: Fair Go -
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Some stories just make you sick. This week's one sure did. Actually it's about someone else being sick.
It's like one of those shaggy dog tales your Dad used to tell you:
"There was this lady on a plane. The flight got really bumpy (chorus: oh no), but the plane didn't crash (chorus: oh phew). But then everyone started throwing up (oh no) But not our lady (oh phew). The pilot said they couldn't land in Auckland (oh no), but they could make it down to Wellington (oh phew). Then the lady had to throw up (oh no). She got the sick bag out in time (oh phew) but the bag broke all over her (oh no)."
Sorry, I did warn you.
Whilst researching the tenacity of sick bags I discovered I had inadvertently become a "vomitologist".
You have awful images in your head don't you? Yardglasses, 21st
parties and student orientation gigs. The "helicopter", the "lion's
share" ... hey, calm down, it's a family show all I had to do to
get the title was collect airline sick bags for the story.
I asked the other reporters on Fair Go to pick up a bag every time
they jumped a plane so I now have a fine collection of airline sick
bags on my desk.
That makes me a novice vomitologist.
And yes there is a
website
well quite a few -
Steve the sick bag man
has been collecting for 25 years now, he has 800 and
this one's a virtual sickbag
museum.
Apparently they recently held a
convention in Helsinki. Nothing surprises me anymore.
Collectors catalogue their barf bags by the name of the airline.
Like stamps, the more obscure, the better. I'm assuming all the sickbags in these collections are like mine and mint (to use another philatilist's analogy). Otherwise that would just be well, sick.
One of the best things I learnt was the way to say sick bag in other languages - my favourite: Spuckbeutel. You gotta love the way German words sound like what they mean.
Anyway if you want to see the sickbag story tune into Fair Go Wednesday 7.30pm. I even get to try a vomit simulation test on my collection of sickbags with a special recipe based on luke warm vegetable soup (with extra carrots). Yum.
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Post new commentsaroncarson said on 2009-09-01 @ 15:55 NZDT:
lol……bosses are control freak. Just think once, they have their money in the business, and a little lack of control can lead to massive loss to the business. But why don’t the Victorian entrepreneurs would have their employees on a 70 hour week and not paid any money? That’s a crime. Steps should be taken to solve the problem. We should take lessons from history. Portal Development
benrebo said on 2009-04-09 @ 08:33 NZDT:
Hi Phil, I saw this show and fair enough - it is quackery, but do a mind experiment and everywhere you talk about unfounded, unproven, no evidence etc etc substitute in the appropriate religious epithet. There is a lot of "quackery" in real life and I wonder if on balance you would have been willing to direct the same/similar charges at, say, the pope or to call people of religious rather than weightloss faith "Not dumb people. Desperate people".
Connections said on 2009-04-08 @ 07:33 NZDT:
Hi Phil I was having problems paying my Visa card with Kiwi Bank, so I asked them to cancel it so that I wouldn't get charged all the late fees. I told them of our problems and they said they would agree to me paying $80 per month until I could pay more. I have just received a debt collection agency letter who have added $1898 on top as fees with no option but to pay the full amount + fees otherwisie I go to court. How helpful is that?
tbl said on 2009-03-26 @ 09:31 NZDT:
Re: The sick bag test. There is definately a problem with sick bags leaking. I sat next to a man on a flight into Christchurch and he used a couple of sick bags. After holding a full bag for about 10 minutes, the contents started seeping out the bottom. He had to double-bag it to stop it spilling everywhere. There wasn't enough sick bags supplied and we had to "borrow" from other passengers for the poor man, so that they could be double-bagged.
catrat07 said on 2009-03-25 @ 19:59 NZDT:
Haha brilliant, I like the poster you can get on the second website of barf bags from around the world, endless Christmas present ideas!