Gives new meaning to air bags

http://www.thehumorarchives.com/joke/Big_Airbags

"Adam Albright" <> wrote in message
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A helicopter with a pilot and a single passenger was flying around above
Seattle when a malfunction disabled all of the aircraft's navigation and
communications equipment. Due to the darkness and haze, the pilot could not
determine the helicopter's position and course to get back to the airport.

The pilot saw a tall building with lights on and flew toward it, the pilot
had the passenger draw a handwritten sign reading "WHERE AM I?" and hold it
up for the building's occupants to see.

People in the building quickly responded to the aircraft, drew a large sign,
and held it in a building window. Their sign said "YOU ARE IN A HELICOPTER."

The pilot smiled, waved, looked at his map, determined the course to steer
to SEATAC airport, and landed safely.

After they were on the ground, the passenger asked the pilot how the "YOU
ARE IN A HELICOPTER" sign helped determine their position.

The pilot responded "I knew that had to be the Microsoft support building,
they gave me a technically correct but entirely useless answer."

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"will_s" <> wrote:

> "Adam Albright" <> wrote in message
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> A helicopter with a pilot and a single passenger was flying around above
> Seattle when a malfunction disabled all of the aircraft's navigation and
> communications equipment. Due to the darkness and haze, the pilot could not
> determine the helicopter's position and course to get back to the airport.

That was funny the *first* time I heard it 30 years ago, only then it
was an IBM support building in a different city. It probably goes back
farther than that.

Mike

"Mike" <> wrote in message
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> In article <46bce3a4$0$19339$> ,
> "will_s" <> wrote:
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>> "Adam Albright" <> wrote in message
>> news...
>> > http://www.thehumorarchives.com/joke/Big_Airbags
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>> A helicopter with a pilot and a single passenger was flying around above
>> Seattle when a malfunction disabled all of the aircraft's navigation and
>> communications equipment. Due to the darkness and haze, the pilot could
>> not
>> determine the helicopter's position and course to get back to the
>> airport.
>
> That was funny the *first* time I heard it 30 years ago, only then it
> was an IBM support building in a different city. It probably goes back
> farther than that.
>
> Mike

Most certainly does but it was a cut and paste from that website mentioned
in the original post.

A lot of people may not have seen it or heard it so its for these people
that I post it. What I found so amusing about the joke that the punch line
is just so true and can also refer to a lot of the MSVP's in these groups

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 18:23:07 -0400, Mike <> wrote:

> In article <46bce3a4$0$19339$> ,
> "will_s" <> wrote:
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> > "Adam Albright" <> wrote in message
> > news...
> > > http://www.thehumorarchives.com/joke/Big_Airbags
> > >
> >
> >
> > A helicopter with a pilot and a single passenger was flying around above
> > Seattle when a malfunction disabled all of the aircraft's navigation and
> > communications equipment. Due to the darkness and haze, the pilot could not
> > determine the helicopter's position and course to get back to the airport.
>
> That was funny the *first* time I heard it 30 years ago, only then it
> was an IBM support building in a different city. It probably goes back
> farther than that.



Thirty years ago sounds about right. In the original version, the man
was in a hot air balloon about ten feet above the ground, and asked
someone on the ground where he was. When the answer came back, you're
in a balloon ten feet up in the air, he replied "You're an IBM
salesman, right?"

"How did you know?" brought the same answer.

--
Ken Blake, Microsoft MVP Windows - Shell/User
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On Sat, 11 Aug 2007 08:36:37 +1000, "will_s"
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>"Mike" <> wrote in message
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>> In article <46bce3a4$0$19339$> ,
>> "will_s" <> wrote:
>>
>>> "Adam Albright" <> wrote in message
>>> news...
>>> > http://www.thehumorarchives.com/joke/Big_Airbags
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>> A helicopter with a pilot and a single passenger was flying around above
>>> Seattle when a malfunction disabled all of the aircraft's navigation and
>>> communications equipment. Due to the darkness and haze, the pilot could
>>> not
>>> determine the helicopter's position and course to get back to the
>>> airport.
>>
>> That was funny the *first* time I heard it 30 years ago, only then it
>> was an IBM support building in a different city. It probably goes back
>> farther than that.
>>
>> Mike
>
>Most certainly does but it was a cut and paste from that website mentioned
>in the original post.
>
>A lot of people may not have seen it or heard it so its for these people
>that I post it. What I found so amusing about the joke that the punch line
>is just so true and can also refer to a lot of the MSVP's in these groups


But check out those airbags!