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efhmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 03:35 PM Original message |
Very important security question. Can I now take my knitting needles |
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Oreo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 03:36 PM Response to Original message |
1. Here's the TSA website |
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efhmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 03:40 PM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Thanks, I see that I can. So is the world now safer than it was before |
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truth2power (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 04:13 PM Response to Reply #1 |
27. Prohibited: meat cleavers, swords, spearguns??...rofl! |
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efhmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 04:28 PM Response to Reply #27 |
33. Yeah, that site was fun, wasn't it. How about people with zero good |
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Ravenseye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-29-05 11:09 AM Response to Reply #27 |
48. On British Airways the list includes Catapults |
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efhmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-29-05 11:25 AM Response to Reply #48 |
51. How about spitballs? They could be made with the travel magazine, |
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Ravenseye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-29-05 11:37 AM Response to Reply #51 |
53. I can't find it but there used to be a makeshift weapons site |
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GrpCaptMandrake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 03:37 PM Response to Original message |
2. As long as they're not Al Qaeda knitting needles! n/t |
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efhmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 03:43 PM Response to Reply #2 |
6. I have the same knitting project I started before the ban and |
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GrpCaptMandrake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 04:22 PM Response to Reply #6 |
29. Just try not to hum any songs in Arabic |
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efhmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 04:24 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. But if I am humming, how will they know that they are in Arabic? |
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GrpCaptMandrake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 04:28 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. Precisely my point! |
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efhmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 04:35 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. Ahh, a code. It make me think of something I heard once that long, long |
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ProfessorGAC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-29-05 09:14 AM Response to Reply #31 |
40. You Could Be Singing In 9 Tone |
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NMDemDist2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 03:37 PM Response to Original message |
3. yes but not your lighter |
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NanceGreggs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 03:42 PM Response to Original message |
5. Actually, it depends ... |
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efhmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 03:45 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. Well, you certainly know the answer to that one. I have a "Wild and |
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NanceGreggs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 03:57 PM Response to Reply #8 |
16. Well, if you plan on wearing it to the airport ... |
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efhmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 04:02 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. You are too clever and funny. They are my "weapons of mass |
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NanceGreggs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 04:10 PM Response to Reply #18 |
25. For me, too! |
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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 03:43 PM Response to Original message |
7. Yes, but only if you are sitting in First Class |
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efhmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 03:47 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Seem like even the most inane behavior has become invasive these |
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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 04:23 PM Response to Reply #10 |
30. Straight ones, about a foot long |
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efhmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 04:26 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. Good gravy. There are people who have technical terms for how one |
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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 04:46 PM Response to Reply #32 |
37. Heh, the terms are an old family joke |
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efhmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 05:13 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. Thanks, for giving me that vignette of a wonderful family. Too bad, so |
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TechBear_Seattle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-29-05 09:12 AM Response to Reply #38 |
39. Spoke to my mom about the tradition |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 03:49 PM Response to Reply #7 |
11. i also saw them recently in exit row |
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kath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 03:53 PM Response to Reply #7 |
14. Using a circular needle (or perhaps the short "scarf" needles) helps to |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 03:47 PM Response to Original message |
9. you have always been able to take knitting needles on the plane |
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efhmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 03:49 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Told this repeatedly by the person who runs the yarn shop here. I called |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 03:51 PM Response to Reply #12 |
13. they are allowed on northwest airlines |
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efhmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 03:55 PM Response to Reply #13 |
15. Do you have any idea what taking an aran isle sweator off of those |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 04:06 PM Response to Reply #15 |
24. no i didn't know that |
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kath (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 04:02 PM Response to Reply #13 |
19. I have flown several times with knitting needles in the past year with no |
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efhmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 04:04 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Well, I should have known not to call the airlines but to go here for |
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Gormy Cuss (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 04:15 PM Response to Reply #12 |
28. They have been allowed for a while |
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efhmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 04:30 PM Response to Reply #28 |
35. I give up checking after a while. It such silliness I felt sure it would |
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ProfessorGAC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-29-05 09:21 AM Response to Reply #9 |
41. Huh? |
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efhmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-29-05 11:01 AM Response to Reply #41 |
44. I know for a fact that you could not take them at one time because I |
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ProfessorGAC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-29-05 11:08 AM Response to Reply #44 |
47. And Yet I Can't Take Mine? |
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efhmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-29-05 11:21 AM Response to Reply #47 |
49. I was thinking about this and perhaps they think they might be filled with |
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ProfessorGAC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-29-05 11:30 AM Response to Reply #49 |
52. Yeah, But Mine Are Empty In The Packages |
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efhmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-29-05 11:53 AM Response to Reply #52 |
55. It is stupid and there should be a way to change it. Can you get a |
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ProfessorGAC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-29-05 12:58 PM Response to Reply #55 |
56. Don't Know |
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efhmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-30-05 08:46 PM Response to Reply #56 |
57. But what happens if the airline loses your bags? I think a cleverly |
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sweetheart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 03:58 PM Response to Original message |
17. up to a certain size |
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efhmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 04:06 PM Response to Reply #17 |
23. Yep, that would be my plan, but I am sure my telephone is being tapped |
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sui generis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 04:05 PM Response to Original message |
21. not the ones filled with anthrax and the missile homing device |
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juslikagrzly (646 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 04:06 PM Response to Original message |
22. I knit every time I fly |
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efhmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-28-05 04:10 PM Response to Reply #22 |
26. No lighters for me. They are home with the only thing I light, my candles. |
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Maiden England (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-29-05 09:31 AM Response to Original message |
42. Heck I had a cross stitch needle confiscated once... |
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efhmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-29-05 11:05 AM Response to Reply #42 |
46. Yet, they are letting things back on now that actually do have the |
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Missy Vixen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-29-05 10:45 AM Response to Original message |
43. Do you have bamboo circular needles? |
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efhmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-29-05 11:03 AM Response to Reply #43 |
45. That's is what I was told by my local shop owner but the airlines said |
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crispini (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-29-05 11:23 AM Response to Original message |
50. I took mine on three months ago. |
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efhmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Dec-29-05 11:49 AM Response to Reply #50 |
54. I I think perhaps this change took place a while back but I was just |
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Jawja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Dec-30-05 08:50 PM Response to Original message |
58. You won't hear that from me. |
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