ZRX61 wrote:
You just proved Jasons point...
I wasn't trying to disprove his point at all. I was just showing that the name Airsho was something with a long history in the CAF. It's not something that Steve Brown and the marketing department came up with last week to be a catchy new campaign slogan. Although I'm sure people that don't like it would love to blame him and the current administration. The name and the spelling has been around nearly as long as the CAF has been putting on airshows of their own and calling it "Airsho" is one of the last traditions that still exists in today's CAF. Maybe it is a marketing tool nowadays. But it hasn't always been that way.
NONE OF THE REST OF THIS IS AIMED AT ANYBODY. IT'S JUST GENERAL COMMENTS.
People forget that the CAF and all it entails was conceived and originally operated in a light hearted way. The organization was never intended to get to the size that it did. The CAF had a very serious mission but it was gone about in a fun manner. Everybody bitches about the good old boy way they did business in the past, but the light hearted part was also part of the draw. Of course the good old boy way of business wasn't always the right way and they paid for it, learned from it and have tried to do things different. The good old boy club still exists in the CAF, every unit of it. It also exists in every single organization that has more than a couple of members.
People that hate the CAF, for whatever reason, are just gonna (yes I know how to spell it but this is the way I prefer) hate the CAF. But if you don't like the spelling of "Airsho" in regards to one particular airshow in the world, put on once a year, by one particular organization and probably named that for fun more than anything else, then there is a whole bunch of fun stuff in the history of the CAF that you would hate as well. Jethro Culpepper, Throckmorton T. Beauregard, the Rebel Ball, the Geritol Award, the Order of the Brass Jackass, and the Silver Magnolia Blossom (depending on why and how it was awarded.)
As for my spelling of it in the sixth grade well that wasn't a matter of the Texas education system. I'm sure by that age that I probably had been taught enough to know that it was spelled with a W (yes I pronounce that as dubya) at the end. I certainly know my Mama could spell it. But the point of that was the paper was written about the CAF. It must have included something about Airsho and I'm sure I spelled it the way it was spelled on the program or in the Dispatch magazine or something like that. My Mama's argument was that in the context of what I wrote, the spelling I used was correct. I'm 40 years old and I still spell it "Airsho" when talking about the CAF event because no matter why it’s done or how its spelled, that is the proper name of it. All others I spell as airshow. By the way, for those that always think the teacher is right and that most of the problems today are caused by parents that interfere with the teachers decisions (I agree with that assessment), my Mama didn't go talk to the teacher because she had dared to give her baby boy a failing grade. She did it because she knew this nasty old woman was a vindictive hag that hated kids and was way past the point of needing to give it up! Anybody that went to Stanfield Elementary in Snyder, Texas during that 60yr period will still know exactly what old hag I'm talking about!
That was my really long way of saying I hardly think the CAF spelling it the way they did was the first steps (or even a step) on the road to Ebonics and the dumbing down of America. It was named in a light hearted way and its one of the very few things that has lasted through all the nonsense and political correctness.
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