Jokes for the Week Ending January 24, 2003
Colonoscopy Observations
Dr. Seuss Explains Why Computers Crash
Two Kittens Rated R for language.
25 Signs That You've Grown Up
Aviation Humor
Subject: Colonoscopy Observations
Top 13 things heard at colonoscopy...
Subject: Dr. Seuss Explains Why Computers Crash
If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, and the bus is interrupted at a very last resort, and the access of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, then the socket packet pocket has an error to report.
If your! cursor finds a menu item followed by a dash, and the double-clicking icon puts your window in the trash, and your data is corrupted cause the index doesn't hash, then your situation's hopeless and your system's gonna crash!
If the label on the cable on the table at your house, says the network is connected to the button on your mouse, but your packets want to tunnel to another protocol, that's repeatedly rejected by the printer down the hall, and your screen is all distorted by the side effects of gauss, so your icons in the window are as wavy as a souse; then you may as well reboot and go out with a bang, 'cuz sure as I'm a poet, the sucker's gonna hang!
When the copy of your floppy's getting sloppy in the disk, and the macro code instructions is causing unnecessary risk,! then you'll have to flash the memory and you'll want to RAM your ROM, and then quickly turn off the computer and be sure to tell your Mom!
WELL! That certainly clears things up for ME! I'll bet you feel better too.
Subject: 25 Signs That You've Grown Up
25 Signs That You've Grown Up
Blue water Navy truism: There are more planes in the ocean than there are submarines in the sky.
If the wings are traveling faster than the fuselage, it's probably a helicopter -- and therefore, unsafe.
When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane you always have enough power left to get you to the scene of the crash.
What is the similarity between air traffic controllers and pilots? If a pilot screws up, the pilot dies; If ATC screws up, the pilot dies.
Never trade luck for skill.
The three most common expressions (or famous last words) in aviation are: "Why is it doing that?", "Where are we?" and "Oh SH++!"
Weather forecasts are horoscopes with numbers.
Progress in airline flying; now a flight attendant can get a pilot pregnant.
Airspeed, altitude or brains. Two are always needed to successfully complete the flight.
A smooth landing is mostly luck; two in a row is all luck; three in a row is prevarication.
Mankind has a perfect record in aviation... we've never left one up there!
Flashlights are tubular metal containers kept in a flight bag whose sole purpose is storing dead batteries.
Flying the airplane is more important than radioing your plight to a person on the ground incapable of understanding it or doing anything about it.
When a flight is proceeding incredibly well, something was forgotten.
Just remember, if you crash because of weather, your funeral will be held on a sunny day.
Advice given to RAF pilots during W.W.II. "When a prang (crash) seems inevitable, endeavor to strike the softest and cheapest object in the vicinity as slowly and gently as possible."
"The Piper Cub (very slow)is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill you." (Attributed to Max Stanley, Northrop test pilot)
"A pilot who doesn't have any fear probably isn't flying his plane to its maximum." (Jon McBride, astronaut)
"If you're faced with a forced landing, fly the thing as far into the crash as possible." (Bob Hoover - renowned aerobatic and test pilot)
"If an airplane is still in one piece, don't cheat on it, ride the bastard down." (Ernest K. Gann, author & aviator)
"Though I Fly Through the Valley of Death I Shall Fear No Evil For I am at 80,000 Feet and Climbing." (sign over the entrance to the SR-71 operating location Kadena, Japan).
"You've never been lost until you've been lost at Mach 3." (Paul F. Crickmore - test pilot)
Never fly in the same cockpit with someone braver than you.
"There is no reason to fly through a thunderstorm in peacetime." (Sign over squadron ops desk at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, 1970).
The three best things in life are a good landing, a good orgasm, and a good bowel movement. The night carrier landing is one of the few opportunities in life where you get to experience all three at the same time. (Author unknown, but someone who's been there)
If something hasn't broken on your helicopter, it's about to.
Basic Flying Rules: Try to stay in the middle of the air. Do not go near the edges of it. The edges of the air can be recognized by the appearance of ground, buildings, sea, trees and interstellar space. It is much more difficult to fly there.
You know that your landing gear is up and locked when it takes full power to taxi to the terminal.