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ORIGINAL: Nikademus

nuns don't scare me....drunk female roommates do.

ORIGINAL: Terminus

Pudding?

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ORIGINAL: Nikademus

nuns don't scare me....drunk female roommates do.

Sounds as though you experinced a close encounter of the wierd kind...and nuns are scary.

New York airport jets 'directed by child'

by BBC

US officials are investigating how a child was apparently allowed to direct planes at New York's JFK airport - one of the country's busiest.


The probe comes after an audiotape caught the boy directing several pilots preparing for take-off last month.

In one exchange, the boy is heard saying: "JetBlue 171 contact departure." The pilot responds: "Over to departure JetBlue 171, awesome job."

The boy was apparently with his father - a certified air traffic controller.

The adult is later heard saying with a laugh: "That's what you get, guys, when the kids are out of school."

In another exchange, the child says: "MS 4-0-3, contact departure," and then adds: "Adios, amigo."

The pilot responds: "Adios, amigo."

The pilots on the tape appear to be not concerned that a child is giving them instructions.

The incident happened on 17 February, when many New York pupils were on a week-long break.

The age and name of the child and the adult on the audiotape were not immediately known.

'Not indicative' incident

The Federal Aviation Administration said in a statement: "Pending the outcome of our investigation, the employees involved in this incident are not controlling air traffic.

"This behaviour is not acceptable and does not demonstrate the kind of professionalism expected from all FAA employees."

The agency did not give any further details.

The National Air Traffic Controllers Association said the incident was "not indicative of the highest professional standards that controllers set for themselves and exceed each and every day in the advancement of aviation safely".

ORIGINAL: pasternakski

ORIGINAL: Mynok

Yep...all languages except Welsh have vowels.

...and that language spoken by basic training and OCS/OTS instructors.

I also have my doubts about roughly half of the students in my second-semester professional responsibility classes. Judging from their writing, I'd say they're short several consonants, as well.

ORIGINAL: pasternakski

ORIGINAL: Onime No Kyo
Is this for real? I notice that guys at JPL usually know that theyre talking about. [X(]

They know that, with the impending death of the U.S. space program, they're going to get their pink slips any day now. This enterprising gent appears to have a plan. "Now, if I can convince 'em that we gotta develop rockets to nudge this sucker back into its proper wobble, maybe I can protect my phony-baloney make-work job for a couple more years."

But, seriously, folks. The length of a terrestrial day is determined by the rotational speed of the earth's aggregate mass. Any fluctuation in the time taken for a given point on the surface to return to its previous point of reference for "day length calculation" purposes would, ipso facto, be identical to that for any other point. The only way to make an earth day shorter is to speed up the earth's rotation. This hockey puck doesn't say anything that makes sense.

And the only way to make an earth day longer is to go out, get hammered, pick up an embarrassingly stupid, ugly woman and marry her. Yer days will get REALLY long then.

Which raises the musical question, "What a difference a day makes. Twenty-four little hours."

ORIGINAL: Dixie

ORIGINAL: pasternakski

ORIGINAL: Dixie
And add in the place where the file is stored.

You do, indeed, amaze me. And you ain't bad ... for a Brit ...

I think that's the nicest thing you've ever said about me [:D]

ORIGINAL: gladiatt

And a sleepy good morning to all.

Shouldn't have made a second PBEM turn last night [>:] [;)]

ORIGINAL: gladiatt

ORIGINAL: Mynok

Yep...all languages except Welsh have vowels. The Welsh stick with longbows. [:D]

We, French people, have a damn bad souvenir of these longbows...
Crecy, Agincourt..... [;)]

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ORIGINAL: pasternakski

ORIGINAL: Mynok

Yep...all languages except Welsh have vowels.

...and that language spoken by basic training and OCS/OTS instructors.

I also have my doubts about roughly half of the students in my second-semester professional responsibility classes. Judging from their writing, I'd say they're short several consonants, as well.

u r teaching the txt msg gen, is y. [:D]

Edit: After I read my post, I had a flashback of Marky. [:D]

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Oh, snap! Eric is in a good mood this morning. [:D]

ORIGINAL: AW1Steve

Actually , by its original use of the word, you both are yanks.Yankis, the Huron pronounciation of the French word Anglais. Anglais=Yankis=Yankee. That is to say English, not French. So there![:D]