A Joke a day..

[RGbee]

Concorde was such a magnificent beast for so many reasons. Even after many years it could stop a whole crowd to a dead hush as it passed overhead. I miss that aircraft too. So SO beautiful and yet not crafted for asthetics Concorde should still be flying. I wish they had let Branson get his hands on them. Everytime I leave or land at Manchster airport I see Concorde G-BOAC (though now its in a hangar built around her) and I always fell so sad, she looks poised to leap into the sky where she belonged - what a bloody crime.

In years gone by Concorde was an occasional visitor to Liverpool airport on specials, and a friend of mine went to the little road at the end of the runway to video a takeoff. This was 25 years ago when nobody had video cameras. The footage shows it taxi towards him turn before him then wait for the go signal. When the afterburners light up the view shoots skywards and you see my friends outstretched arm grab onto the fence in front of him - he was litterally being blown away by this beast and he was not in direct line with the runway.

Truly awesome. Sadly missing.

Rob

We used to live in Africa (lagos) when my father worked for VW. In 1979 we moved back to the UK, but back then you were not allowed to take out more than a certain amount of money from the country. Too use the excess, my father bought return tickets and after returning from africa, we ended up flying from London to LA on concorde (at the time she'd only been in service for about 3 years). At 6'ish years old i didn't appreciate the majesty of the plane and i complained about eating lobster (insolent child). I do remember the windows seemed very high and we were seated toward one of the bulkheads in front of one of the Mach meters. In order to push past mach the pilot was required to light the afterburners and there was a slight pump as we pushed through the sound barrier. contrary to popular belief, the plane didn't require the burners on all the time, just for takeoff and to accelerate past mach. Once achieved, the Olympus engines provided sufficient thrust to maintain mach speeds. I still have my original BA log book signed by the pilot

[colouredmirrorball]

Q.: How do you confuse an idiot?

A.: Seven.



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Some persons get this one immediately, others simply don't understand.

(if you are in the last category: confused??? )

[Spectrum]

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What the hell were they thinking???

[helium]

There was once an Irishman and an Englishman who lived next door to each other. The Irishman owned a hen and each morning would look in his garden and pick up one of his hen's eggs for breakfast. One day he looked into his garden and saw that the hen had laid an egg in the Englishman's garden. He was about to go next door when he saw the Englishman pick up the egg. The Irishman ran up to the Englishman and told him that the egg belonged to him because he owned the hen. The Englishman disagreed because the egg was laid on his property.
They argued for a while until finally the Irishman said, "In my family we normally solve disputes by the following actions: I kick you in the balls and time how long it takes you to get back up. Then you kick me in the balls and time how long it takes for me to get up, whoever gets up quicker wins the egg."
The Englishman agreed to this and so the Irishman found his heaviest pair of boots and put them on, he took a few steps back, then ran toward the Englishman and kicked as hard as he could in the balls. The Englishman fell to the floor clutching his nuts howling in agony for 30 minutes. Eventually the Englishman stood up and said, "Now it's my turn to kick you."
The Irishman replied, "Keep the fucking egg!"

[JRGixxerfreaK1]

quick random joke lol

Energizer Bunny arrested, charged with battery.

[DZ]

Ok, so what's so funny about a capacitor that has spewed its guts all over the place? Well, lets see, I live in freakin florida and that's the insides of my air conditioner! Gonna be a hot one tonight.

[JRGixxerfreaK1]

damm how did that happend?
overloaded?

[DZ]

No clue, about 1700 I realised that it was a bit warm inside. I stepped out and heard the thing just a hummin, fan wasn't moving though so I knew something was wrong. At first I thought it was a bad fan, I took the side panel off to disconnect the cable for the fan and that's when I saw the electrolyte everywhere. Oh well, I have one of the mini-split air conditioners in my office, so I guess we're sleeping in here tonight!

[steve-o]

I've replaced a couple of those caps, Dave. They're a phase cap that runs the fan or the compressor. I learned the hard way dont run the compressor without the fan, tho. Easy to replace, but the values have to be an exact match. Means running to your wholesaler/jobber store. Lighning strikes I believe cause this. Or age..AC caps have a limited lifespan. My compressor is gone now in the downstairs so it's being a hot summer, but in VA nothing like FLA (I've lived there many years).

[allthatwhichis]

Damn man; dat ain't funny...