The Post missed a trick in the headline.*
From The New York Post:
Delays, canceled flights and being stuck in the middle seat may no longer be people’s biggest air travel concerns.
A new possibility awaits: double-decker-style airplane seats for coach. Just like the bus, one row is above another with the top level reached by stairs.
“Fresh hell just dropped,” tweeted author Amber Sparks in response to a CNN article about the design.
Others on social media also reacted to the seats. Writer Kaz Weida tweeted: “I’ll be back to comment on this once my claustrophobia lets me breathe again.”....
....MUCH MORE, including pics.
*As noted in the outro from "What Fresh Hell Is This? "Windows 10 could start bullying people into using a Microsoft account to install" (MSFT; EVIL)":
When Dorothy Parker used the first half of the headline she meant it. See after the jump....
And on Ms. Parker:
...When Dorothy Parker used the line I purloined as our intro, she...was...not...kidding.
From Quote Investigator:
...the testimony of journalist Vincent Sheean who was Parker’s friend: 1
Additionally, Quora has a finance angle in one of their usages:
When Dorothy Parker used the first half of the headline she meant it. See after the jump....
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Mark my words, the day is coming when the peasants storm the castle.And on Ms. Parker:
...When Dorothy Parker used the line I purloined as our intro, she...was...not...kidding.
From Quote Investigator:
...the testimony of journalist Vincent Sheean who was Parker’s friend: 1
“When it came time to leave the apartment to get a taxi, you could see this look of resolution come on her face,” he said. “Her chin would go up and her shoulders would go back; she would almost be fighting back fear and tears, as if to say to the world, ‘Do your worst; I’ll make it home all right.’ If the doorbell rang in her apartment, she would say, ‘What fresh hell can this be?’—and it wasn’t funny; she meant it.Quote Investigator has earlier uses by other people but the Parker is the one I knew of.
Additionally, Quora has a finance angle in one of their usages:
Of note, the quote “What fresh hell is this” is used in Vanity Fair, Volumes 43-45, Issue 6, page 41 - Condé Nast, 1935, article.
“And so the doctor groaned and cursed as he awoke to the persistent ringing of the telephone beside his bed. He looked at his watch and noted that it was three a. m., before he picked up the receiver. "What fresh hell is this, George?" said Dr. Bonnard to the night clerk. "Can't tell you, Doc. Old man in 607 says he must have a doctor right away. Name is Fred Warren and he comes from Stapleton, Staten Island." "Some fat Yankee stock broker who thinks that fifteen-mile wind outside his window is another hurricane ...”Fat Yankee stockbrokers via Google books.
Ms Parker's first husband, Edward Pond Parker II was a stockbroker.
Her first published poem was in Vanity Fair
On the day of her birth there were four active hurricanes in the Atlantic including the 1893 New York Hurricane which was skimming the New Jersey coast as she was being born on Ocean Avenue, Long Branch NJ.
Weird.
Also at the New York Post:
There. I don't feel so crabby about the airplane seats.
