(well, mine anyway)
Skywriting! I'm just putting it out there that any man who proposes to me in skywriting will win my hand in marriage*. If he is the pilot who does the writing, that gives him a bunch of bonus points.
Having gone to the airshow on a windy day and a not windy day, I was thinking about smoke and aerobatics. Which led me to think about skywriting. I think this is a fantastic craft, which apparetnly is making a bit of a comeback! I was informed today that I missed seeing some skywriting over my own town a couple of days ago. It's just as well, since the prop wash from my saffron-colored airship would mess up the letters....
Here is an educational film strip from 1935 about skywriting.
*Some exclusions may apply.
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In Hajimete no Aku, the protagonist (he's not the hero—because he's a supervillain mad scientist called "Kill-Em-All Dr. J"), at one point, kisses the heroine, when she doesn't want him to. Then, in typical romcom manga fashion, he makes it worse by his apology—writing "Kyouko, I'm sorry for kissing you" all over town, including in sky-writing (that'd be a bitch with kanji). Because that's how to make things better when you embarrass a girl.
ReplyDeleteSo, not always the way to a woman's heart. Then again, he's basically got Invader Zim's social skills (and his cape does a mean impression of Zim's backpack), so he's probably a special case.
I'm thinking of naming a character in something "Secundus Bösfelt" in his honor, that being as close as I can get to "Akuno Jiro", his real name, in a Western language.