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    November 29

    May 12

    Best Chicken Joke

    A chicken and an egg are lying in bed. The chicken is leaning against the
    headboard smoking a cigarette, with a satisfied smile on it's face.

    The egg, looking a bit disgusted, grabs the sheet, rolls over, and says,
    Well, I guess we finally answered THAT question!"

     

    March 18

    Jeff Foxworthy on "Ontario":

    Jeff Foxworthy on "Ontario":



    If you consider it a sport to gather your food by drilling through
    36 inches of ice and sitting there all day hoping that the food will
    swim by, you live in Ontario.


    If your local Dairy Queen is closed from September through May, you
    live in Ontario.

    If you instinctively walk like a penguin for six months out of the
    year, you live in Ontario.

    If your dad's suntan stops at a line curving around the middle of
    his forehead, you live in Ontario.

    If you have worn shorts and a parka at the same time, you live in
    Ontario.

    If you have had a lengthy telephone conversation with someone who
    dialed a wrong number, you live in Ontario.

    YOU KNOW YOU ARE A TRUE ONTARIAN:
    1. "Vacation" means going South past London for the weekend.

    2. You measure distance in hours.

    3. You know several people who have hit a deer more than once.

    4. You often switch from "heat" to "A/C" in the same day and then
    back again.

    5. You can drive 110 kph through 2 feet of snow
    during a raging
    blizzard, without flinching.

    6. You design your kid's Halloween costume to fit over a snowsuit.

    7. Driving is better in the winter because the potholes are filled
    with snow.

    8. You know all 4 seasons: almost winter, winter, still winter and
    road construction.

    9. Your idea of creative landscaping is a statue of a deer next to
    your blue spruce.

    10. Down South to you means London ...


    11. Your 1st of July picnic was moved indoors due to frost.

    12. You have more miles on your snow blower than your car.

    13. You find 0 degrees "a little chilly."

    March 29

    Things you've always wanted to know!

    If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.

    (Hardly seems worth it.)

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    If you farted consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb.

    (Now that's more like it!)

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    The human heart creates enough pressure when it pumps out to the body to squirt blood 30 feet.

    (O.M.G.!)

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    A pig's orgasm lasts 30 minutes.

    (In my next life, I want to be a pig.)

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    A cockroach will live nine days without its head before it starves to death.

    (Creepy.)


    (I'm still not over the pig.)

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    Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour.

    (Do not try this at home......maybe at work or school.)

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    The male praying mantis cannot copulate while its head is attached to its body.
    The female initiates sex by ripping the male's head off.

    ("Honey, I'm home. What the....?!")

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    The flea can jump 350 times its body length. It's like a human jumping the length of a football
    field.

    (30 minutes...can you imagine?)

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    The catfish has over 27,000 taste buds.

    (What could be so tasty on the bottom of a pond?)

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    Some lions mate over 50 times a day.

    (I still want to be a pig in my next life...quality
    over quantity.)

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    Butterflies taste with their feet.

    (Something I always wanted to know.)

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    The strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.

    (Hmmmmmm........)

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    Right-handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people do.

    (If you're ambidextrous, do you split the difference?)

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    Elephants are the only animal that cannot jump.

    (OK, so that would be a good thing....)

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    A cat's urine glows under a black light.

    (I wonder who was paid to figure that out?)

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    An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.

    (I know some people like that.)

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    Starfish have no brains.

    (I know some people like that too.)

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    Polar bears are left-handed.

    (If they switch, they'll live a lot longer.)

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    Humans and dolphins are the only species that have sex
    for pleasure.

    (What about that pig?)

    80's kid

    This is sort of Gender specific and applies to girls more then guys but its still funny!

    You know you grew up in the 1980's if . .
    You ever ended your sentence with "psych"
    You solved the Rubics cube.....by peeling off the stickers
    You watched the pound puppies
    You can sing the rap to "the Fresh Prince of Bel-Air"
    You wore biker shorts under your skirts and felt stylish
    You yearned to be a member of the Baby-sitters club and tried to start a
    club of your own.
    You owned those little Strawberry Shortcake pals scented dolls
    You know what 'Whoa' comes from Blossom
    Three words: M.C. Hammer
    You thought it would be great to have a friend named "Boner"
    You can sing the entire theme song to "Duck Tales"
    If you played the chipmunks Christmas album all year long!
    Remember reading Kool-Aid man comics
    You ever watched Fraggle Rock
    You had plastic streamers on the handle bars of your bike
    You remember When it was actually worth getting up early on a Saturday to watch cartoons
    You wore a pony tail to the side of your head
    You saw the original Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles on the big screen
    You got super-excited when it was Oregon Trail day in computer class at school
    You made your mom buy you one of those clips that would hold your shirt in a knot on the side
    You had a Kirk Cameron poster on your bedroom wall
    You played the game "Mash" with friends at school
    You wore a Jordache jean jacket and you were proud of it L.A. GEAR
    Your mother wouldn't let you have garbage pail kids
    You wanted to change your name to Jem in Kindergarten
    You remember reading "Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing" and all the Ramona books
    You know the profound meaning of "Wax on,Wax off"
    You wanted to be a Goonie
    You ever wore fluorescent, neon if you will, clothing
    You wanted to be on StarSearch
    You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose fell off
    You took Lunch pales to school
    You have ever pondered why Smurfette was the ONLY female smurf
    You remember the craze, and then banning of slap bracelets
    You still get the urge to use "NOT" at the end of every statement you make
    You remember Hypercolor T-shirts
    Barbie and the Rockers was your favorite band
    You remember Punky Brewster
    You loved Howard the duck
    You thought Sheera and He-Man should hook up
    You thought your childhood friends would never leave because you exchanged "friendship bracelets"
    You ever owned a pair of Jelly Shoes
    After you saw Pee-Wee's Big Adventure you couldn't stop saying "I know you are but what am I?"
    You remember "I've fallen...and I can't get up!"
    You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline skates
    You ever got seriously injured on a slip and slide
    You know not to mix poprocks and soda (but did it anyway!)
    You have played with a 'skip-it'
    You had or went to a birthday party at McDonald's
    You learned oldies songs by watching Alvin and the Chipmunks
    You had a Glow Worm or watched the cartoons
    You remember dancing along with the Bangles in "Walk Like An Egyptian"
    If you remember Heathcliff the orange cat
    You saw the California Raisins Christmas claymation special
    You've gone through this list occasionally saying "That wasn't from the 80's"
    You remember Popples
    DON'T WORRY, BE HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!!!
    You wore socks over tights with high-top Reeboks
    You wore like 8 pairs of socks at once, scrunched down
    MISS MARY MACK MACK MACK ALL DRESSED IN BLACK BLACK BLACK.....
    You remember boom boxes instead of CD players
    You remember watching both "Gremlins" movies
    You remember the Transformers
    You know what it meant to say "care bear stare!!" and you had a favorite
    You remember Rainbow Bright and My Little Pony Tales
    You remember watching TV thinking Doogie Howser was hot!
    You remember Alf, the little furry brown alien from Melmac
    You remember the large amounts of hairspray used
    You remember those very stylish headbands
    You remember Vicky the Robot
    You remember Eve Garland from Out of this World and how she could stop time by pressing the tips of her index fingers together and talking to her dad through a glowing cube in her bedroom
    You remember the beggining of New Kids on the Block
    You remember watching The Cosby show
    You remember Mr.Belvadere
    You remember Michael J. Fox in Family Ties and Back to the Future
    You know all the names of the gang from "Saved by the Bell"
    You know all the words to Bon Jovi's "shot through the heart" song

    March 24

    ATC conversations

    Pretty Good ones here....

    Real Air Traffic Controller Conversations
    Tower: "Delta 351, you have traffic at 10 o'clock, 6 miles!
    Delta 351: "Give us another hint! We have digital watches!"

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    "TWA 2341, for noise abatement turn right 45 Degrees."
    "Centre, we are at 35,000 feet. How much noise can we make up here?"
    "Sir, have you ever heard the noise a 747 makes when it hits a 727?"

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    From an unknown aircraft waiting in a very long takeoff queue: "I'm
    f...ing bored!"
    Ground Traffic Control: "Last aircraft transmitting, identify yourself
    immediately!"
    Unknown aircraft: "I said I was f...ing bored, not f...ing stupid!"

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    O'Hare Approach Control to a 747: "United 329 heavy, your traffic is a
    Fokker, one o'clock, three miles, Eastbound."
    United 239: "Approach, I've always wanted to say this... I've got the
    little Fokker in sight."

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    A student became lost during a solo cross-country flight. While
    attempting to locate the aircraft on radar, ATC asked, "What was your
    last known position?"
    Student: "When I was number one for takeoff."

    ************************************************************

    A DC-10 had come in a little hot and thus had an exceedingly long
    rollout after touching down. San Jose Tower noted: "American 751, make
    a hard right turn at the end of the runway, if you are able. If you
    are not able, take the Guadalupe exit off Highway 101, make a right at
    the lights and return to the airport."

    ************************************************************

    There's a story about the military pilot calling for a priority
    landing because his single-engine jet fighter was running "a bit
    peaked."
    Air Traffic Control told the fighter jock that he was number two,
    behind a B-52 that had one engine shut down.
    "Ah," the fighter pilot remarked, "The dreaded seven-engine approach."

    ************************************************************

    Taxiing down the tarmac, a DC-10 abruptly stopped, turned around and
    returned to the gate. After an hour-long wait, it finally took off. A
    concerned passenger asked the flight attendant, "What, exactly, was
    the problem?"
    "The pilot was bothered by a noise he heard in the engine," explained
    the flight attendant. "It took us a while to find a new pilot."

    ***********************************************************

    A Pan Am 727 flight waiting for start clearance in Munich overheard
    the following: Lufthansa (in German): "Ground, what is our start
    clearance time?"
    Ground (in English): "If you want an answer you must speak in
    English."
    Lufthansa (in English): "I am a German, flying a German airplane, in
    Germany. Why must I speak English?"
    Unknown voice from another plane (in a beautiful British accent):
    "Because you lost the bloody war."

    ***********************************************************

    Tower: "Eastern 702, cleared for takeoff, contact Departure on
    frequency 124.7"
    Eastern 702: "Tower, Eastern 702 switching to Departure. By the way,
    after we lifted off we saw some kind of dead animal on the far end of
    the runway."
    Tower: "Continental 635, cleared for takeoff behind Eastern 702,
    contact Departure on frequency 124.7. Did you copy that report from
    Eastern 702?"
    Continental 635: "Continental 635, cleared for take off, roger; and
    yes, we copied Eastern... we've already notified our caterers."

    **********************************************************

    One day the pilot of a Cherokee 180 was told by the tower to hold
    short of the active runway while a DC-8 landed. The DC-8 landed,
    rolled out, turned around, and taxied back past the Cherokee. Some
    quick-witted comedian in the DC-8 crew got on the radio and said,
    "What a cute little plane. Did you make it all by yourself?"
    The Cherokee pilot, not about to let the insult go by, came back with
    a real zinger: "I made it out of DC-8 parts. Another landing like
    yours and I'll have enough parts for another one."

    **********************************************************

    The German air controllers at Frankfurt Airport are renowned as a
    short-tempered lot. They not only expect one to know one's gate
    parking location, but how to get there without any assistance from
    them. So it was with some amusement that we (a Pan Am 747) listened to
    the following exchange between Frankfurt ground control and a British
    Airways 747, call sign Speedbird 206.
    Speedbird 206: "Frankfurt, Speedbird 206 clear of active runway."
    Ground: "Speedbird 206. Taxi to gate Alpha One-Seven."
    The BA 747 pulled onto the main taxiway and slowed to a stop.
    Ground: "Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?"
    Speedbird 206: "Stand by, Ground, I'm looking up our gate location
    now."
    Ground (with quite arrogant impatience): "Speedbird 206, have you not
    been to Frankfurt before?"
    Speedbird 206 (coolly): "Yes, twice in 1944, but it was dark, and I
    didn't land." 

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    AN UNSCHEDULED REFUELING STOP

     

    Perhaps a Junk might be a safer mode of travel....

    AN UNSCHEDULED REFUELING STOP


     LOOK AT THIS ENGINE.....The aircrew obviously had more balls then brains.

    Hard to believe anyone would take off with an engine in this condition.

    This is an excellent example of why any prudent traveler should generally stick with North American carriers, Western European carriers and a few other carriers like Quantas, Air New Zealand, and Singapore.

    A pilot for a Chinese carrier requested permission and landed at FRA (Frankfurt, Germany) for an unscheduled refueling stop.  The reason became soon apparent to the ground crew: The Number 3 engine had been shut down because of excessive vibration, and because it didn't look so good.  It had apparently been no problem for the tough guys back in China: they took some sturdy straps and wrapped them around several of the fan blades and the structures behind, thus stopping any unwanted  windmilling  (engine spinning by itself due to airflow passing thru the blades during flight) and associated uncomfortable vibration caused by the suboptimal fan.

    Note that the straps are seatbelts....how resourceful!                                           

    After making the "repairs", off they went into the wild blue yonder with another revenue-making flight on only three engines! With the increased fuel consumption, they got a bit low on fuel, and just set it down at the closest airport  for a quick refill. That's when the problems started: The Germans, who are kind of picky about this stuff, inspected the malfunctioning engine and immediately grounded the aircraft.

    (Besides the seatbelts, notice the appalling condition of the fan blades.)

    The airline operator had to send a chunk of money to get the first engine replaced (took about 10 days)  The repair contractor decided to do some impromptu inspection work on the other engines, none of which looked all that great either.

    The result: a total of 3 engines were eventually changed on this plane before it was permitted to fly again.

     

     

     

     

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