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Souls on board is a way of asking number of living humans on board — so there’s no confusion when asked how many are alive on the flight whether we should be in
by rwc 8y ago
Souls on board is a way of asking number of living humans on board — so there’s no confusion when asked how many are alive on the flight whether we should be including dogs, cats, parakeets or the dead guy in a cargo casket being transported.
- Archio 8y agoThere's also the confusion between "passengers" vs "crew" vs "children" or "babies". Souls conveniently includes all of those groups and excludes irrelevant factors like dead bodies.
- oconnor663 8y agoI feel like "souls" is not at all clear about the dogs :)
- matt-attack 8y ago...and the atheists. I for one find the nomenclature a bit unprofessional.
- FireBeyond 8y agoOften times in health care, particularly insurance, reference is made to "how many belly buttons", which handles pregnancies and the like (no belly button until birth).
- robotresearcher 8y agoSignalling SOB* instead of SOS might be risky. * Save Our Bodies
- jwhitlark 8y agoI'd always hear it was derived from Save Our Ship, but in reality, it's a backronym, and was chosen simply because it was easy and clear to transmit in Morse Code. https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2014/07/01/sos-mayday/ https://blog.oxforddictionaries.com/2014/07/01/sos-mayday/
- refurb 8y agoI for one find the nomenclature a bit unprofessional. Why? One of the definitions of "souls" is "a human being; person". You find it unprofessional because it's also used in a religious way?