It’s been gone for a number of years (more like 10+) on the majority of the fleet. Probably just done as a cost saving measure.

J

We’ve got a cracking good one in the US, we just don’t use it…

The official one, while inspiring and all that (thumbing its nose at the Brits as it does :)), is impossible to sing for the average person. The really good one we’ve got (America the Beautiful) is much easier to sing, less antagonistic, and a much nicer song. But nobody is willing to step up and get the thing changed.

J

Do they have any oil?

That was the VERY first thought that popped into my head! And from the perspective of the current administration in the US, they don’t matter anyway, since they’re brown people in Africa. No oil, brown skin, in Africa. Three strikes against them, and they’re outta there!

J (eagerly awaiting 4 November 2008)