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sdotyam Started conversation Jun 4, 2003
Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!! (true story)
Scientists at Roll 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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Apparition™ (Mourning Empty the best uncle anyone could wish for) Posted Jun 4, 2003
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abbi normal "Putting on the Ritz" with Dr Frankenstein Posted Jun 5, 2003
Best laugh today! 
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JD Posted Jun 5, 2003
Heheheh. That is a good one. Coupla months ago I heard that joke exactly as written except with the NASA engineers replacing Rolls Royce's throughout. 
Still, a good laugh, no matter what side of the pond yer on.
- JD
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The Dragonlady~There are no ugly women in the world, only neglected ones! Posted Jun 8, 2003
There is a Canadian Television show called "Royal Canadian Air Farce", and on the show, they use a "Chicken Canon" to blast many political decisions, or public figures for things they have done. It has been around for quite a few years already, too
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The Dragonlady~There are no ugly women in the world, only neglected ones! Posted Jun 8, 2003
OOPS!
My mistake!
It is a parody of "60 Minutes" actually, called "This Hour Has 22 Minutes", not "Air Farce" as I had originally stated
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- 1: sdotyam (Jun 4, 2003)
- 2: Heleloo - Red Dragon Incarnate (Jun 4, 2003)
- 3: Apparition™ (Mourning Empty the best uncle anyone could wish for) (Jun 4, 2003)
- 4: J (Jun 4, 2003)
- 5: abbi normal "Putting on the Ritz" with Dr Frankenstein (Jun 5, 2003)
- 6: SomeMuppet (Jun 5, 2003)
- 7: Vip (Jun 5, 2003)
- 8: JD (Jun 5, 2003)
- 9: The Dragonlady~There are no ugly women in the world, only neglected ones! (Jun 8, 2003)
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