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Now that AirTran (along with Delta, and several other airlines) offers in-flight Wi-Fi, the Atlanta-based carrier features an exceedingly gentle and roundabout reminder on its web site asking passengers not to watch porn on crowded airplanes.

The reminder appears on AirTran’s Internetiquette page, a primer on overal in-flight Wi-Fi politeness.

Movie and TV buffs might appreciate the site’s mock PSA videos. They feature actor Peter Graves reviving his memorable deadpan comedic role Captain Clarence Oveur, pilot of the doomed airliner in the 1980 disaster comedy Airplane!

Here’s Graves in one of Airplane!’s best and most frequently quoted scenes:

(Tip of my captain’s hat to Jim V. who spotted former 99Xer Steve Barnes in the commercial).

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PEEP HOLE: Jaclyn Jose as Nayda in 'Serbis'

A Golden Palm nominee at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, Serbis is like no multi-generational slice-of-life film you’ve ever seen. Philippine director Brillante Mendoza sets his bumptious drama at a failing adult movie house in the sprawling Philippine city of Angeles. The Pineda family not only manages the porn theater, but they also live under its roof, just a few flights of stairs away from films such as Bedmates and Young Screwpine.

Serbis’ first scene sets a tone of exhibitionism and voyeurism, as a teenage daughter vamps in the nude before a mirror while her schoolboy nephew peeps at her. The ironically named Family movie theater practically simmers with surging libidos. A young would-be painter lances a boil on his buttock in an early close-up, which interferes with his girlfriend’s subsequent visit. The Pinedas presumably turn a blind eye to the down-low prostitution that accompanies the screenings, as young rent boys and she-males ask “Serbis?” to prowling movie patrons. Serbis resembles the bawdiest work of novelist John Irving, or perhaps trash filmmaker John Waters most serious moments.

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Calling all bespectacled, no-nonsense women who steal the spotlight from their potential bosses when they’re not killing moose! Your services are requested for an “adult-themed video production” here in Atlanta.

The wonderful ladies at Pecanne Log unearthed this gem:

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A pointless, brutal war and serial violations of the Geneva Conventions are apparently not the only things staining the honor of U.S. military personnel.

According to Rep. Paul Broun, R-Georgia, government-assisted masturbation (in the form of pornographic magazine sales at military facilities) is “denigrating the moral standing of our troops both here and abroad.”

To protect America’s servicemen and women from rubbing one out on Uncle Sam, Broun has proposed something called the Military Honor and Decency Act.

Broun ’splains:

“As a Marine, I am deeply concerned for the welfare of our troops and their mission,” said Broun. “Allowing the sale of pornography on military bases has harmed military men and women by: escalating the number of violent, sexual crimes; feeding a base addiction; eroding the family as the primary building block of society; and denigrating the moral standing of our troops both here and abroad. Our troops should not see their honor sullied so that the moguls behind magazines like Playboy and Penthouse can profit. The “Military Honor and Decency Act” will right a bureaucratic–and moral–wrong.”

Idiotic, yes, but it’s also kind of sweet. The poor Congressman thinks our troops still get their porn from magazines.

(Tip of the jimmy hat to Erick at Peach Pundit for bringing it to my attention and brownsox at Daily Kos for reminding me today that it was brought to my attention.)

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