Why call airliners tubeliners?

[HighBypass 2,339]

29 minutes ago, SteveW said:

Now I'm hungry - I could eat a tube-steak.

Whilst tuning in on your tranny! 

 

11 minutes ago, charliearon said:

A little better is a Picpoul de Pinet from the south of France.  Had that with our lunch in Sete.

Ahem! From tubeliners to a discussion about haute cuisine! I love Hangar Chat

[W2DR 1,860]

Sometimes we Americans refer to the television as the boob tube. I don't think it means the same thing in the UK 🙂.

[SteveW 1,792]

There's also the saying when, for example, some idea is dropped or backfires with "that's gone down the tube", referring to the conduit connecting the lavatory to the sewer.

[Ray Proudfoot 8,960]

2 hours ago, W2DR said:

Sometimes we Americans refer to the television as the boob tube. I don't think it means the same thing in the UK 🙂.

Our definition is more interesting. 😁

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/boob_tube

[charliearon 3,024]

20 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Our definition is more interesting. 😁

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/boob_tube

Interesting young lady in the boob tube! 😁

[Dominique_K 10,149]

32 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Our definition is more interesting. 😁

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/boob_tube

Television is overrated.

[W2DR 1,860]

2 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Our definition is more interesting. 😁

https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/boob_tube

Somehow I just knew your definition would be more interesting 🤣

[martin-w 3,235]

14 hours ago, Dominique_K said:

Television is overrated.

 

But not if its a good science fiction series, film, or a good Discovery science documentary.

[Dominique_K 10,149]

1 hour ago, martin-w said:

 

But not if its a good science fiction series, film, or a good Discovery science documentary.

Well, it seems to me that the Brit definition of a boob tube  lends itself to discovery too. 

Edited February 12, 2021 by Dominique_K

[787flyer 633]

Well, did you know that Cockney rhyming slang for "tube" is Oxo Cube?

https://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/slang/oxo_cube

Try figure that one out!

 

and before somebody asks (!), a Cockney = a native of East London

[Dave Morgan 68]

Returning to a couple of earlier questions, I first thought that apron might have come from the French "éperon" as in the part that sticks out from the piste d'atterrissage. Then I recalled the naval origin of many aviation words (captain, tiller, rudder, navigation, aeronaut et c.) and decided that apron is also naval in origin. A dock apron is the manoeuvring area for the loading and unloading machinery. The construction of dock aprons led me on to the dam wall, which has an apron spread out before its foot, suggesting that 'apron' has been in use for a long time in the context of a flat hardstanding adjacent to something else. @Dominique_K could remind me of the French for a concrete apron, which would deal with a large part of my waffle.

The word origiates in the Latin "mappa" meaning a small cloth and the foregoing examples may have no more obscure an origin than a similarity to a cloak spread over a muddy puddle...

In the UK, ramps are inclined and lead smoothly from one level to another. Can you have (other) horizontal ramps in the US?

Concerning biscuits and gravy... in the UK the dish would be called savoury scones with a meat-based white sauce. It doesn't roll off the tongue quite as easily. Just reading through a couple of online recipies is making me hungry. Coming obscurely back to aviation, the sauce looks less like a bechamel base and more like a vol-au-vent filling.

UK gravy is the thickened juices from the bottom of a roasting tin. I first encountered the Canadian version of that wonderful staple, chips & gravy (which answers the question of what to have with your fries...), only a fortnight ago. It seems a bit rich but worth a try.

Regarding the original post, tubeliner makes me imagine a construction method like pipework, where short lengths of tube are attached end to end. I think some large aircraft are built that way. My biology teacher once pointed out during a lesson on digestion that humans are also just a funny-shaped tube.

Does anyone else here call chocolate digestives "half-coated"?

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[Dave Morgan 68]

On 2/11/2021 at 7:00 PM, charliearon said:

Interesting young lady in the boob tube! 😁

I wouldn't be surprised to find a streaming website with that name... 

[Dominique_K 10,149]

38 minutes ago, Dave Morgan said:

@Dominique_K could remind me of the French for a concrete apron, which would deal with a large part of my ..

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 Apron comes from the French « naperon », a small  tablecloth, according to the Merriam Webster.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apron

 In colloquial French, an airport apron is a tarmac, yes we use the English word 😁 ! 

[Dave Morgan 68]

44 minutes ago, Dominique_K said:

 In colloquial French, an airport apron is a tarmac, yes we use the English word 😁 ! 

My thanks Dominique.

I suppose then it's not a French spur.

My battered OED gives this derivation for apron: an apron from the middle english a napron from the old French naperon, the diminutive of nape (used in English as nap on a billiard table and as nappe in geology) from the Latin mappa meaning a napkin.

-kin being a diminutive suffix means that napkins are just small tablecloths.

I spend far too much time on my own. I'm off now to have a bath in the gin.

[HighBypass 2,339]

On 2/12/2021 at 1:40 PM, aldridgem said:

Well, did you know that Cockney rhyming slang for "tube" is Oxo Cube?

https://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/slang/oxo_cube

Try figure that one out!

Well, I'm guessing that the tube they are referring to is the London Underground railway and Oxo Cube just rhymes.  Mind you, Oxo cubes (stock cubes) are used to make gravy and the Underground has trains, so a tenuous link because of gravy train perhaps?