FROM  ROLLS-ROYCE STAFF MAGAZINE *


Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!! (true story)..

Scientists at Rolls Royce built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens

at the windshields of airliners and military jets all traveling 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 shot 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 Americans 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 first

 

 

The best ones are when you haven't sussed out what's going to be the punchline.
Good one Chad !!
Cheers - Phil.

 

Yanks! Don't you  just love 'em.

Quote from: Dour Puritan on 20 September 2013, 10:49:52 AM
Yanks! Don't you  just love 'em.

NO! 

http://www.snopes.com/science/cannon.asp

I like the "catapoultry" version ... but then I'm not a cat person

Another "oldie but goodie", mind you I've heard it told both ways....

What ?....Eh ??
They fire the plane at the chicken ?
Not heard that one !
Cheers - Phil.

nother oldie but goodie.

By this stage I reckon most of our US members have left.

IanS

Quote from: ianrs54 on 21 September 2013, 08:10:42 AM
By this stage I reckon most of our US members have left.

Maybe it's time to double the effort on the French and Germans, then? 

Quote from: OldenBUA on 21 September 2013, 08:16:40 AM
Maybe it's time to double the effort on the French and Germans, then?  

So in about a a year it will be ...Welcome to Pendraken , the 10mm specialists providing high quality sculpts to only those living in the Middlesbrough area

Quote from: OldenBUA on 21 September 2013, 08:16:40 AM
Maybe it's time to double the effort on the French and Germans, then? 

Or the Welsh, if Ian has his way. 
Cheers - Phil.

Xenophobia is for those damn foreigners..... 

Quote from: Fenton on 21 September 2013, 08:31:09 AM
So in about a a year it will be ...Welcome to Pendraken , the 10mm specialists providing high quality sculpts to only those living in the Middlesbrough area

What if I feel Scottish anyways? 



But seriously if you cannot take these jokes you probably ain't registered on the forum anyways. "Leave sanity at the door"   
My take is that all members I know do have this particular sense of humour and enjoy the forum as much as the figures....

Quote from: Fenton on 21 September 2013, 08:31:09 AM
So in about a a year it will be ...Welcome to Pendraken , the 10mm specialists providing high quality sculpts to only those living in the Middlesbrough area

Only reason I can think of for moving to Middlesborough. 

You mean people move TO Middlesbrough !
Along the same lines, i've often wondered if the Hartlepool monkey hanging tale is just a myth as well. But its much too insulting to let go of.   

From the sources that I've seen....Apparently true....But who knows for sure....'Urban legend' or not ? 
Cheers - Phil.

Quote from: howayman on 21 September 2013, 12:17:05 PM
You mean people move TO Middlesbrough !
Along the same lines, i've often wondered if the Hartlepool monkey hanging tale is just a myth as well. But its much too insulting to let go of.   

Insulting to the French or good people of Hartlepool? 

I thought it was the Spanish Armada that set of the Hartlepool monkey?

I married a Geordie, and my young brother was trying to write his best man's speech. My uncle generously offered as an opening line "who hung the monkey?" I happened to mention this to my soon to be father in law. During the father of the bride's speech he said "... and a special toast to Uncle Matt, who wants to know 'who hung the monkey?' " Stoney glares at my uncle, who rose from his seat as is for flight ...

Wonder why the marriage didn't last?