Quirky humor show An Idiot Abroad is better travel TV than all those happy and shiny shows on the tube.

Engineers from Intel build the world's biggest chimes and powers them by flinging themselves at it.

Now and then, airline attendants make an effort to make the in-flight safety presentation and their other announcements a bit more entertaining. Here are some of the better ones that are flying around the web.

What follows are some real life transcriptions of the occasionally funny exchanges between the air traffic controllers and pilots. Make up your own mind whether this makes it more or less safe to fly with the comedians in the air

We had 'staycation' and 'mancation' but the travel industry has come up with some new terms lately