Qantas goes Guinness and Aboriginal translations

Well what a week. The TWU strikes were on and then off but no matter, Qantas struggled on.   And oddly enough all ran smoothly.

I am on the 3PM flight thus week and a meal was not on the menu but a snack was. What we did get was the Qantas entry for the Guinness Book of Records Viennese Éclair.  It got me thinking about that magical 1984 movie Ghost Busters with Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Sigourney Weaver and Stay Puft Marshmallow Man, I can feel seat fever coming on and it in only a 1:20 minute flight!

On another interesting topic, I did some research this week into Aboriginal names in corporate Australia and found that the literal translation for Qantas in ALL ancient Aboriginal dialects is “late or delayed”.  Well they got right!

Home at last and I look forward to next week’s adventure. And the upside is only 11 weeks remaining in Canberra this year before Christmas holiday shutdown.

Stay tuned,

D

7/10/2011