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Fun & Games on the Huckaplane

March 03, 2008 4:09 PM

ABC News' Kevin Chupka Reports: The Huck-a-press and some of the younger staffers have plenty of time in the air when we can't be on our phones and wireless devices.

When all the work is done we try and catch as many winks as we can in an attempt to stave off trail fatigue. From that necessity has risen a game we call "nap tag" -- when people are sleeping on the plane we make signs with a sharpie and snap a photo of an unsuspecting napper with the sign.

Almost every member of the traveling press (including yours truly) has been both victim and victimizer. Having easily torn through the press and junior staff we went in search of some bigger "gets."

Some good examples of late are Chuck Norris with a sign that read "MH (Mike Huckabee) Can Beat Me Up" or Minute Man Project founder Jim Gilchrist with a sign that read "This Suit Made in Mexico".

But on Monday we landed the big catch: the candidate himself.

As former governor Mike Huckabee slept, his daughter Sarah snuck a sign near him reading: "If I Close My Eyes This Feels like Air Force One".

Sweet dreams as the Republican contender heads into Ohio and Texas, contests in which pundits say Senator John McCain, R-Ariz., may finally be able to claim enough delegates to reach the GOP's magic number of 1191.

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