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Re: rooster booster

To: donmathis@lucent.com
Subject: Re: rooster booster
From: George G Curl <gcurl@tenet.edu>
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 1996 22:06:28 -0500 (CDT)

On Fri, 6 Sep 1996 donmathis@lucent.com wrote:

> At 09:13 AM 9/6/96 -0700, you wrote:
> >>In response to the stories about the "rooster booster", which
> >>is the nickname given to the compressed air cannon that fires
> >>birds and simulated birds at aircraft windscreens and into aircraft
> >>intakes
> >
> >This thread reminds me of an incedent at this years GoF West. The main
> >hotel for this years event was on the Washington side of the Columbia
> >River, but the car show was next to the river on the Oregon side. On the
> >way across the bridge a bird must of let loose of a fish that it had
> >caught. Now this fish could have hit a million other things but it hit the
> >windshield of a TC square on. I didn't have the pleasure of seeing this
> >mess but I heard it was pretty grotesque. And yes I believe the windshield
> >did survive.
> >
> >cheers, lane
> >
> Did it hit Bass ackward?
> Don Mathis,Ph.D.
> LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES
> donmathis@lucent.com
> '61 MGA     '37 Bentley
> 
OOOOOOOOOH
As an English teacher I must say BAAAAAAAD PUN!

George Curl
64 MGB  56 190SL> 

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