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Post by Ratty on Jul 3, 2020 23:52:51 GMT
An oldie ....
Scientists at Rolls Royce built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners and military jets all travelling at maximum velocity.
The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windshields.
American engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on the Windshields of their new high speed trains..
Arrangements were made, and a gun was sent to the American engineers.
When the gun was fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurled out of the barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to smithereens, blasted through the control console, snapped the engineer's back-rest in two and embedded itself in the back wall of the cabin like an arrow shot from a bow..
The horrified Yanks sent Rolls Royce the disastrous results of the experiment, along with the designs of the windshield and begged the British scientists for suggestions.
You're going to love this......
Rolls Royce responded with a one-line memo:
"Defrost the chicken."
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Post by gridley on Jul 4, 2020 0:19:23 GMT
An oldie .... Scientists at Rolls Royce built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners and military jets all travelling at maximum velocity. [snip] "Defrost the chicken." Heard this one several times, with different groups and details cited. Which led me to wonder: what is the joke which you've heard the most different variants of? Not looking so much for "why did the chicken cross the road" as ones like this, but you've heard it as NASA sending the chicken launcher to EASA, Rolls Royce sending the gun to the US, the Brits sending it to the French... always with the punchline being "thaw the chicken." I'm pretty sure I've heard three variants of this one and at least five of the oldie that ends with "I'm a lighthouse. Your call."
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Post by sigurdur on Jul 4, 2020 1:11:10 GMT
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Post by Ratty on Jul 4, 2020 2:11:31 GMT
An oldie .... Scientists at Rolls Royce built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners and military jets all travelling at maximum velocity. [snip] "Defrost the chicken." Heard this one several times, with different groups and details cited. Which led me to wonder: what is the joke which you've heard the most different variants of? Not looking so much for "why did the chicken cross the road" as ones like this, but you've heard it as NASA sending the chicken launcher to EASA, Rolls Royce sending the gun to the US, the Brits sending it to the French... always with the punchline being "thaw the chicken." I'm pretty sure I've heard three variants of this one and at least five of the oldie that ends with "I'm a lighthouse. Your call." At my age, there are few I haven't heard. My real problem is remembering WHO I have told them to ......
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Post by Ratty on Jul 4, 2020 2:14:09 GMT
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Post by nautonnier on Jul 4, 2020 3:45:49 GMT
An oldie .... Scientists at Rolls Royce built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at the windshields of airliners and military jets all travelling at maximum velocity. [snip] "Defrost the chicken." Heard this one several times, with different groups and details cited. Which led me to wonder: what is the joke which you've heard the most different variants of? Not looking so much for "why did the chicken cross the road" as ones like this, but you've heard it as NASA sending the chicken launcher to EASA, Rolls Royce sending the gun to the US, the Brits sending it to the French... always with the punchline being "thaw the chicken." I'm pretty sure I've heard three variants of this one and at least five of the oldie that ends with "I'm a lighthouse. Your call." Reminds me of a true casualty report in the RAF There is a distant RAF outpost on one of the islands in the St Kilda group around fifty miles or so further into the Atlantic than the Outer Hebrides. There was no runway on the island and running a helicopter out there from Stornoway was considered a little risky. So mail and food deliveries were by light aircraft. The average windspeed over the moor of the main island was in the 50kts range and so the aircraft would fly into wind over the moor and reduce speed to just above the stall which often gave them less than walking pace ground speed then they would drop the mail and supplies from the aircraft at around 15ft above the heather near the reception party, then climb away and fly back to Stornoway. Came the day the aircraft with supplies arrived and the wind was light and variable. However, it had flown all the way from Stornoway so the crew decided to drop the mail and supplies anyway. Needless to say the mail was not really bothered about hitting the heather at around 65kts but the large mail sack with the supplies burst open. The casualty report was that the corporal was collecting supplies when his shoulder was dislocated by a frozen chicken.
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Post by Ratty on Jul 4, 2020 7:27:32 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Jul 4, 2020 12:26:08 GMT
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Post by acidohm on Jul 4, 2020 16:28:34 GMT
Real image....🤯🤯🤯
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Post by nautonnier on Jul 4, 2020 17:55:47 GMT
"Diablo 12 Gauge Pistols, Nickel and Blued Finish Collectors Set with Rosewood Finish Grips
Barrel Length: 6″ Length Polished Double Barrel Side-by-side, smooth-bore Barrel Type: Break Open Polished Double Barrel Side-by-side, smooth-bore Overall Length: 10” Caliber: 12 Gauge"
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Post by missouriboy on Jul 4, 2020 20:48:18 GMT
Hmmm. Jaguar. Drives like a Sausi. Looks like a Saudi. Last name spelled like a Saudi. Flight risk? You bet. Could also be Kuwaiti or Emirati. Daddy's not gonna be happy.
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Post by sigurdur on Jul 4, 2020 23:17:19 GMT
Who would guess that being on an Interstate road could result in pedestrian injuries??
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Post by missouriboy on Jul 5, 2020 5:05:38 GMT
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Post by duwayne on Jul 5, 2020 13:20:06 GMT
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Post by sigurdur on Jul 6, 2020 1:10:12 GMT
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