ROFL, that's a great one! Hmm, I'm only 27 years old (although only for about 5 weeks more) and when I was a small kid my hair was light brown (not blond), later it turned very dark and now it's turning light again, but because of almost half my hairs have turned silver that is, I found the first one at age 18. At least I still have the same high but fixed hairline, my dad at this age was already going bald and I look a lot like him facewise (and personalitywise). My mom's dad had a full head of (pure silver) hair until he died in his 80s when I was still a small kid (very long generations in my family on both sides).
Here's one from one of my high-school teachers, told in class:
I went to a seminar on danish humour and the speaker was this calm man and he started "Danish humour is laughing at a woman falling on the street, that is not funny" and I thought, oh no this is going to be boring, and then the man added "unless she's really old HAHAHAHA".This above is actually not a age-joke but a demonstration of danish black humour but I thought the story itself told by my teacher was funny. Btw happy, if you haven't read the whole thread then there's another school-experience of mine where I sadly was the target of the joke but a big laugh anyway, it's posted a few pages back. And in general, if you haven't read this thread in it's full length then bookmark it and save it for a rainy day since there are some dusies in there!
And now for some aviation humour:
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And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the very first Fokker airplane built in the world. The Dutch call it the mother Fokker."
-- custodian at the Aviodome aviation museum, Schiphol airport Amsterdam.
Ok I must've missed that episode:
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Flying an aeroplane with only a single propeller to keep you in the air. Can you imagine that?"
-- Captain Picard, from 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' episode 'Booby Trap.'
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Son, never ask a man if he is a fighter pilot. If he is, he'll let you know. If he isn't, don't embarrass him."
-- The Great Santini, in 'Get ready for a fighter pilot.
Ok this one is an interesting one, aren't there any?
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If helicopters are so safe, how come there are no vintage/classic helicopter fly-ins?"
-- Jim Tavenner
Lol, this reminds me of the Chicken Wings strip with the new DHC-6 and it's on topic with the conversation in the other thread.
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Lady, you want me to answer you if this old airplane is safe to fly? Just how in the world do you think it got to be this old?"
-- Jim Tavenner
ROFL, personally I'd Rather Be Flying but each to their own, I just had to post this
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Arguing with a pilot is like wrestling with a pig in the mud, after a while you begin to think the pig likes it."
-- Seen on a General Dynamics bulletin board
And now some from the "I bet someone actually did that" catagory
Controller November, turn right and report your heading.«
Pilot: »Wilco, 340, 341, 342, 343... «Pilot: "Golf Juliet Whiskey, request instructions for takeoff"
Persons unknown: "Open the throttle smoothly, check temperatures and pressures rising, keep the aircraft straight using ....." Student pilot (who forgot to ask for surface wind) "Please pass wind" Lost student pilot: "Unknown airport with Cessna 150 circling overhead, identify yourself" Ok I've heard of a backwards King Air (Beech Rutan Starship 2000) but this one is new! LOL
Heard last weekend at Palo Alto while I was inbound from Leslie Salt:
PAO Twr: "Mooney 23D, traffic is a Cherokee just entering downwind from the left 45."
Mooney 23D: "Uhhh, tower, 23D...only traffic I see is a Cessna."
Pause...
PAO Twr: "Mooney 23D, follow your traffic directly ahead, an, um, inverted Cherokee just abeam the numbers." Actually all these are from an old html-page I saved years ago but some of those I coudln't remember having read before. Hope you enjoyed them, they sure gave me a better feeling on the inside that I got from the bad sleep I woke up from a short while ago, have a good weekend, and every day after that
Frank