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Courtesy of The Joy of Tech by Nitrozac & Snaggy http://thejoyoftech.com

On the heels of launching new anti-privacy rules at their online news site, The Huffington Post, AOL announced today that it will buy Delta Airlines for a reported $5 billion dollars and will set a progressive new standard for air travel. To exemplify their progressive thinking, AOL Chairman and CEO Tim Case announced that all passengers will be required to fly naked.

“It is our goal to maintain a civil environment for air travel, ” stated Case who was fully dressed in an expensive Brooks Brothers suit, “and we believe that by mandating that all travelers fully expose themselves, we will be providing an atmosphere of humility and vulnerability that will naturally translate into a more civil and entertaining experience, especially for our management staff.”

Case detailed how mandatory nudity for travelers who fly their airline will be very much to their benefit.

“There are bad people out there who are willing to use our airlines as national platforms to promote their hatred. The expense of paying for sufficient staff to provide the required security and screening is, frankly, money that could be going into our pockets as profits. So, putting our customers first, we devised this policy to save us money and manpower and allow us to see everything about our customers before they can even step onto our planes,” Case said. “Having this degree of control over our passengers will give them a freedom like they’ve never had before.”

Required nudity on their airline would yield many benefits for passengers, according to Case.

“Going through security screening will be a breeze, there will be no pockets to empty and no shoes or belts to take off. Passengers will no longer need to worry that the person sitting next to them on a plane may have a bomb strapped to them. If they spill a drink or food on themselves during the flight, their clothes won’t be stained and they can clean up good as new with just a towelette. And it will be a real conversation starter on those long flights.”

In response to questions about how fliers would feel about this new intrusive requirement, Case replied, “At AOL, we have a wide open and wide ranging executive meeting each week in an architecturally unique, glass domed conference room we built specifically for that purpose. We call it The Bubble. We’re always in the Bubble and when we asked each other how our customers would feel about this new policy, we all agreed that they would love it. Which works out exceptionally well for us because it was originally conceived just to make our lives easier. There was no need for marketing research, we know all we need to know thanks to the time we spend in The Bubble.”

Traveling nude does present some challenges which Case addressed. “Naturally, our travelers won’t be able to carry their ticket or ID in their pockets so to support this far more civil way of flying, at check in we will apply tattoos on our passengers’ bodies that display all their personal information, their names, addresses, phone numbers and ticketing information so that they can easily be completely identifiable by our staff. We see absolutely no downside for passengers to have their personal identity displayed publicly, especially women and children. Props again to The Bubble!”

Case expressed unbridled enthusiasm about the way they are reshaping the airline industry. “We are thrilled to be able to offer this revolution in air travel. By treating all of our customers as probable terrorists, we prevent any of them from acting like terrorists which leads to a more civil environment for all. And this allows us to slash our staff and work hours that would have been required to treat everyone as an individual. And as a corporation, that’s a win-win for us!”

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Quick Brown Dog
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Quick Brown Dog

Hi AdLib. Great article. “The Onion” envies you for that level of LULZ 🙂

Quick question, though: is Tim Case the son of longtime AOL CEO Steve Case, or is that a typo (intentionally?) mixing current CEO Tim Armstrong with Steve Case?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Armstrong_%28executive%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Case

OppositionResearch
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Wishing that we true… we’d fly Delta from now on!

My wife and I don’t just fight for freedom — we *use* it. 🙂

McKMN
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McKMN

Today, very behind the times, I quit HP (and FB) after trying to leave a comment. I won’t lie, I was going to miss HP….atleast the HP I joined in 2010 and up to the new format.
I needed to find a site to replace it. So, I googled “REALLY HP, connect to FB, REALLY…you (BLEEPED) up” sans bleep. Your “Huffpo/NSA” article was on top. It hooked me and I signed up.
After registering I found this article….and now, AdLib, I’m positive I made the right choice. Huffpo who?

cal haughtly
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cal haughtly

My HP moderator badge allows me to select one article of clothing…I’m picking a hat.

Quick Brown Dog
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Quick Brown Dog

Very good, sir. As I’m sure you know, people are not wearing enough of them. 😉

Allymax
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Allymax

AdLib – you forgot to mention that Delta’s frequent fliers would be grandfathered in and permitted to wear clothes – oh wait, AOL has reevaluated that clause and members of the public who don’t like the new requirement can fly elsewhere.

Summertown
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Summertown

And fly we did, just not on Delta.

Counterglow
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Counterglow

I’m sensing that there may be one or two Huffington Post refugees sheltering here. 🙂

kesmarn
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You are sensing right, Counterglow! Welcome to the Planet!

Counterglow
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Counterglow

Thank you kindly. Sorry for the delayed response. I don’t have things properly configured yet, nor do I have a lot of time to spend right at the moment.

IBWatching
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IBWatching

Brilliant satire, AdLib.

And as always in satire, we find the real truth.

Ruby Tuesday
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Ruby Tuesday

Oh IB you’re here, how nice. I did not want to keep my HP name and could not find how to upload a picture!

IBWatching
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IBWatching

Hi Ruby.

I’m here…

But I also kept my account at HP.

As much as I despise their lying ways, I feel I need to keep fighting for liberal views, and unfortunately HP still has, and always will have, the readership to make those views better known.

So I bit the bullet and verified through FB.

However, it is a ghost town over there right now.

Ruby Tuesday
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Ruby Tuesday

Yes, I’ve been to HuffghostownPost today! I can’t leave either, too attached. Unless they decide to kick me out of course. I had not made one impolite comment and they put me on time out!

Fergie1
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Fergie1

Hi Ruby, I closed my account at HP two days ago and it feels great. No withdrawal symptoms whatsoever. It fact it was liberating. A Time Out? That sounds very juvenile. I was finding the articles less and less interesting anyway and the shallow comments by so many just bored me.

Nice to see you here at Planet POV. Great people and supportive. The trolls at HP were beyond dealing with for my taste. I gave it the good fight early on but too many people with a small view of the world were depressing!

Anyway, welcome!

Ruby Tuesday
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Ruby Tuesday

Thanks Fergie! 🙂 I’m glad to be here! But I still miss the old home. Maybe one just has to grow fonder of new design and people, demands time…

IBWatching
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IBWatching

By the way…

To upload an avatar image you must register and do it through https://en.gravatar.com .

Your avatar will then follow you around to other sites that use their system.

Ruby Tuesday
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Ruby Tuesday

Thank you IB!HP is incredibly empty!Comments at the lowest low. They banned me for 72 hours, I guess due to my support to the petition…

OppositionResearch
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Hi there!

You don’t need HP. It’s hard to “get liberal views out there” in such an atmosphere of censorship and HP’s *infantile* inability to take criticism.

I had no trouble making a clean breakaway.

Ruby Tuesday
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Ruby Tuesday

Thank you opposition. Yes, the atmosphere is the worst possible. The rate of perfectly correct comments censored is absurd, one practically cannot speak, at least about certain subjects (HP). Still,I have trouble making a clean breakaway. I’m so used to HP, it’s …inexplicable! But I’m very glad we’re meeting here, so many of us! Without having to walk on eggshells!

Quick Brown Dog
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Quick Brown Dog

Hi RT 🙂 If/when you do decide to leave, you’ll be more than welcome in the exodus — and because that exodus is growing, eventually Huffnpuff will have some regretful sentiments following your departure…

youtube.com/watch?v=eYx_NfnoHL8

“Sure I’m gonna miss you, too…”

Ruby Tuesday
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Ruby Tuesday

Thank you Quick Brown Dog! 🙂 I’ve been searching here and there, feeling a bit homeless actually. According to Forrest Grump HP already lost 5 million commenters!

jjgravitas
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jjgravitas

A clear case of “Be careful what you wish for.”

Fergie1
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Fergie1

As an ex-airline employee for one of the big boys, this was doubly hilarious Ad. And need I mention clever, clever, clever analogies had me laughing all the way through. Sadly most airlines today do operate in The Bubble – not like the good old days. And so goes AH and HP.

pinkpantheroz
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I see one minor, insignificant problem with the nakedness of everybody. How do you know if it is a real flight attendant telling you to bend over and assume the position? Oh, yes, I forgot that staff and frequent flyers can clothe themselves anyway they want, because they have dispensation, except of course for the older loyal clients!

Kalima
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Good job that I don’t live there and prefer trains. Eewww!!

Thanks for my morning laugh again, AdLib. Hilarious!!

Ok, off to throw out the trash, anything to throw out apart from the TP and the majority of the GOP, my bin isn’t big enough for all of those crazy buggers.

mugwump
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mugwump

I found your HP NSA article on the internet two days ago; now this amazing satire “AOL To Buy Delta Airlines.” I have reached the tipping point and registered as another HP refugee. Nice work!!

funksands
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Ad, I heard the Planet is going to force us to register with Hickory Farms and Gridr before we are allowed to comment. Care to comment?

Algebra Palin
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Algebra Palin

i no longer like the word ‘civil’ and its variations.

KillgoreTrout
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Funny stuff Ad. I was laughing out loud just reading the headline. I guess such travel would really beef up the numbers in the mile high club!