* * * * * Flag of Canada. Flag of Vancouver. Departing Seoul on the evening of 16 th December 1988, I began my first trip to Vancouver. Launching a flight of nine hours and thirty minutes - across the black North Pacific - and concluding our journey at an altitude of 37,000 feet. And it was at this point of my trip that I experienced a strange anomaly, apropos the fabulous “Singapore Girl.” Which the airline had a tendency to “pimp-out,” through its expensive advertising campaigns. Our attractive female flight attendants could be dropped inside one of two categories: “Player” or “Non-Player.” The “Non-Player” had recently joined the airline, and was very timid and single. A pilot didn’t have a hope in hell of getting a date wi...