Sky Mall Pop Quiz
Thank goodness for Sky Mall—that catalogue of oddball products supplied as entertainment for the passengers of most commercial airlines. But does anyone actually shop from it, or even know what its items are meant for?
Danny Gregory and
The Staff put together a test for its odder merchandise.
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Danny Gregory first learned to swim in the canal behind the Lahore American School, to kill ticks at Canberra Grammar School, to snap bras at the Kibbutz Givat Brenner, to light a match with one hand at Princeton University, and to mount sheep at the Northwestern School of Taxidermy. He is the author of
several books and
the obligatory blog and lives in Greenwich Village (with his first wife and son), where he does not attend NYU.
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