Posted by Richard Crowley on 03/19/06 20:30

"Dan Wenz" wrote ...
> Thanks again to responders! You showed your age by using the word
> "zeppelin". I'll bet you call that food storage device an icebox
> instead of a refrigerator :-) Actually, right after WWII my parents
> did have an icebox until refrigerators were back in production.

The only zeppelins I've seen are on the History channel.
They had all crashed before I was born. OTOH, "zeppelin"
is used frequently to identify the cloth over frame enclosures
used around microphones. I suspect that they use the word
because they do resemble miniature zeppelins.

OTOH, only a few miles from where I live & work is one
of the few makers of commercial ligher-than-air craft left
on the planet. http://www.americanblimp.com/

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