Here's a Brit joke one of my sailing buddies sent-TGIF!
Laura G. and Nigel
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Scientists at NASA have developed a gun whose purpose is to launch
dead
chickens. It's used to shoot a dead chicken at the windshields of
airline jets, military jets, and the space shuttle, at that vehicle's
maximum traveling velocity. This simulates the frequent incidents of
collisions with airborne fowl, thereby determining if the windshields
are
strong enough.
British engineers, hearing of the gun, were eager to test it on the
windshield of their new high speed trains. However, upon firing it,
the
engineers watched in shock as the chicken shattered the windshield,
smashed through the control console, snapped the train engineer's
backrest in two, and embedded itself into the back wall of the cabin.
Horrified, the engineers sent NASA the results of the experiment,
along
with the designs of the windshield, and asked the scientists for any
suggestions.
The NASA scientists sent back a three-word response. "Thaw the
chicken."
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