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So, Bete created a Web site -- www.FlightHumor.org -- where visitors could submit their humorous stories and jokes about flying. More than 16,000 people visited Web site since it opened last September. In addition to picking winners, the site has been a winner, too. It was named a top ten "indispensable Web site for travelers" by SmarterLiving.com and one of the Houston Chronicle's "100 favorite travel Web sites." Six humor columnists from Ohio, North Carolina, Texas and Japan, plus Bete, judged the entries. Bete characterized the judging process as "a lot like American Idol but without the whining and crying." The first-place true passenger story went to Jim Murray from Saint Paul, Minn. "On a flight from Anchorage to Tokyo, the flight engineer went back into the passenger cabin," wrote Murray. "An elderly woman passenger stopped him and asked him what the temperature was. 'It's 70 degrees, madam,' he replied, adding, 'But outside it's 30 degrees below zero.' 'Young man,' the woman demanded, 'What were you doing outside?'" Tracy Barrus from Star, Idaho, submitted the first-place true story from a pilot. "I needed a flying fix one Saturday, so I loaded my wife and 6-year-old daughter into a rented 182 and flew from Boeing Field in Seattle to Tacoma Narrows Airport for lunch," wrote Barrus. "Our twenty-mile flight over Puget Sound lasted only nine minutes, but to a first-grader who had never crossed a body of water in an airplane before, it must have seemed like an exotic journey indeed. As we walked across the ramp toward the airport restaurant, she placed her tiny hand in mine and asked, 'Daddy, do people here speak the same language as us?'" The winning original joke -- actually a poem, called " High Cuisine" -- was awarded to Dominic Martia from Sarasota, Fla. All airline passengers agree, the food in flight is awful.Other contest winners can be read at the flight humor Web site, which also includes the award-winning comedy film, "Wrighting the Wrongs," and links to humor columns about flight and flying. "While we picked two winners in each
category, we don't like to consider the other entries losers," said Bete.
"Our official position is that our contest was overbooked and some entries
were bumped. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope those who
didn't win will fly with us again someday."
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