When you are towing your plane behind your car, you might want to check to make sure you can get out of where you got in. Just sayin'. I can't remember too many times (my memory is not as good as it used to be) seeing a car being towed anywhere, let alone out of a parking lot at a country club. When I first saw it (taking up several valuable parking spaces) I thought it was some kind of a racing boat, but I was quickly corrected by one of the locals. I, not being a local, went with the correction, and on closer inspection determined that, yes, indeed, it is an airplane. Which leads to the next question; why would someone want to TOW an airplane. It seems more logical to FLY the airplane to the intended destination, and if in fact that answer to that supposition is that there is no adequate landing strip at the final destination, then why in the hell to you want to take a plane there to begin with. You will just have to tow the plane to another destination if and when you want to fly it someplace, so why not just fly it someplace to begin with, which would also save the expense of the fancy-schmancy trailer that was (apparently) custom built to accommodate an airplane that should not be on a trailer in the first place. My head hurts...Collogue -- Verb. 1. intrigue, conspire. 2. to talk privately. confer. "We shall be pisoned wi' lime an' plaster, an' hev the house full o' workmen colloguing wi' the maids, an' makin' no end o' mischief." George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life, 1857
Did You Know? Collogue has been with us since the 17th century, but beyond that little is known about its origin. In Samuel Johnson's 1755 dictionary, he defined collogue as "to wheedle, to flatter; to please with kind words." The "intrigue or conspire" meaning of collogue was also common in Johnson's day, but Johnson missed it; his oversight suggests that sense of the word was probably part of a dialect unfamiliar to him. The earliest known use of the "confer" sense of the word is found in an 1811 letter by Sir Walter Scott: "We shall meet and collogue upon it."
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