PARIS paper plane lands in Spanish school textbook We're delighted to report that our legendary Paper Aircraft Released Into Space (PARIS) mission has appeared in a Spanish language textbook, agreeably exposing young minds to stratospheric Playmonaut tomfoolery. The book in question is Brújula 5 ("Compass 5"), aimed at 3rd year primary school kids in Valencia... The cover of …
But I'm not sure how the PARIS mission suddenly goes off onto a tangent into videogames for the last question though.
Maybe if you're lucky one of the other chapters goes into detail about how to apply for permission from officialdom. Or maybe that requires a whole textbook...
Lester, you do realise just how much trouble you're going to be in for reprinting that 6 year old picture of the illustrious apprentice boffin, don't you?
At least if she's anything like my proto-teenager semi-boffin first-born and her self-image control...
Top marks for getting into literature though. Maybe the next step is an English (ish) language version for the American market, to subvert their youth into pestering the FAA?
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I'm put in mind of the Melanesian cargo cults - imagine coming back to Spain many years from now to find the locals worshipping statues of Lester Haines and his magical plane.
That would explain Spain's ghost airports. They weren't part of a real estate scam, they were instead attempts to lure Playmonauts from beyond the stars, a la the Nazca lines. But in Spain. That's my theory anyway.
Have one for getting into print and stimulating young minds.
As an afterthought, it is thought by some that the slang word bevvy is an Anglicisation of the Spanish word for drink 'Bebida' brought back to the UK by Wellington's troops after fighting Napoleon on the Peninsular, particularly as there is little or no difference in Spanish between B and V, they are interchangeable most of the time.
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