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Where old planes, ships, and dominoes go to wait for a comeback that rarely comes.

means A storage site (or a slang term, as in dominoes/scrabble) for things withdrawn from active use but not quite discarded — often decommissioned vehicles or leftover game pieces.

from Literally a yard for bones — originally a place where animal carcasses or skeletal remains were dumped or processed, like a knacker's yard. The term later drifted figuratively to mean any place where retired, derelict, or disassembled things are parked and left to rust or rot: aircraft graveyards in the desert, ship-breaking docks, junkyards of old cars. Its use in games like dominoes and Scrabble (the pile of unused tiles) is a later, more playful extension of the same 'resting place for the unused' idea.

desert storage
air force parks thousands of jets in arizona heat
dry climate logic
low humidity stops rust, so parts stay reusable
domino slang
the leftover tiles pile nobody wants to draw from
shipbreaking yards
beached tankers get stripped for scrap metal there too
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