It's just a little patch of carpet with a few chairs, but the sign makes people smile.
"See? You're getting recombobulated right now," Melissa Fullmore said Tuesday morning to another traveler who was putting on his belt.
Airport draws smiles with 'recombobulation' sign [JS Online]
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Do they still have the really GREAT used book store
in the terminal?
Bought so many books once, I had to go buy another
bag for them, and check the bag!!!
@dohtem: "But.. but.. half the fun is trying to put my belt back in while holding my shoes, phone, wallet, jacket and keys and trying to get out of the way of other passengers coming through the metal detectors."
You forgot to mention the interminably rude officers screaming at you to "keep it moving" before your crap even comes out of the X-Ray machine.
]]>I miss Half Price books, Renaissance Books, but most of all Harry W. Schwartz's, the best book shop in the world. Milwaukee is a literary lover's paradise.
]]>btw, I did not help fund that
]]>They let you get your "constitution" together at an airport named after a convicted felon. Nice.
I guess airplanes are truly a "series of tubes," so maybe the naming is somewhat appropriate....
]]>At Heathrow, the recombobulation area is a 5-acre duty free.
]]>That being said, I would like to be recombobulated too.
]]>TOM
]]>I have a "Recombobulation" area next to my bed...
for the ladies...
giggity.
]]>I call it the "maybe there's some toilet paper in the other bathroom" walk.
]]>"We know why you fly."
;)
Moose.
]]>Moose.
]]>Wow- harleys, beer, sausage, low cost of living, lake michigan, festivals every weekend in summer...you must be hard to please.
I am surprised at the harsh tone so many comments have taken. I think it's funny and way to smile when travel can be such a pain in the poo-er these days. There are a few Milwaukee TSA agents that also have a kind of schtick, rap, stand up routine to help remind people what they should be prepared for while standing in line. Again, it helps a little and people actually end up listening to the guys because they are at least trying to be friendly and funny.
Not from there, just travel there quite a bit. Nuthin wrong with it - the sign or the city.
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]]>"Security! That man said he was going to "bomb u late", uh "recon bomb you later" er, something about a bomb!
Where upon you're whisked away and cavity searched before being locked up.
]]>@libbybee:
I do a fair amount of lurking...
Milwaukee is only funny when Alice Cooper says it in Wayne's World :)
]]>I recombobulate all the time. And by recombobulate I mean do nothing.
]]>"Scotty beamed me twice last night. It was wonderful."
]]>@nerdychaz: And I'd say none of it was wasted.
]]>@chipslave:
I rather be in Milwaukee than Chicago. F the Cubs.
@dohtem: HNL (Airport in hawaii) has always had places immediately after TSA checkpoints to site and gather everything up. As far as I can remember, so did LAX, san francisco, and vegas.
]]>Funny.
More airports should have something on the other end of security anymore. I've been to a few that don't really have any seats at all. When you see an old man holding his shoes and belt looking for a place to get dressed again and a recombobulation sounds all the more apropos.
]]>Really? Did these TSA dipshits really just figure out that we might need a place to and collect ourselves and put all our stuff back after the freedom search? It's been 7 years!
]]>@Canino:
Ok... but just a little.
]]>From Urban Dictionary:
recombobulate
1. put something back the way it was, or into proper working order
2. To gather one's thoughts or composure
"After Jake broke his mom's lamp, he spent many hours with a hot glue gun to recombobulate it. "
I don't know if I like that word in an airplane-related context.
]]>Next time you think that nothing about Milwaukee makes you smile, remember that beer comes from here. And that makes a lot of people smile.
]]>@chipslave: Not even if you say it with an English accent?
]]>Nothing about Milwaukee makes me smile...
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