posted on December 11, 2000 09:50:25 PM
A chicken goes into a library and says,"Bok," so the librarian gives it a book. Ten minutes later the same chicken comes in again and says, "Bok bok." The librarian gives the chicken two books, but out of curiousity, follows the chicken down the road where she sees the chicken meet a frog.
The frog says to the chicken, "Redit, redit!"
posted on February 18, 2001 08:40:01 PM
The FAA has a device for testing the strength of windshields on airplanes. They
point this thing at the windshield of the aircraft and shoot a dead chicken at about
the speed the aircraft normally flies at. If the windshield doesn't break, it's likely to
survive a real collision with a bird during flight.
The British had recently built a new locomotive that could pull a train faster than
any before it. They were not sure that its windshield was strong enough, so they
borrowed the testing device from the FAA, reset it to approximate the maximum
speed of the locomotive, loaded the dead chicken, and fired. The bird went
through the windshield, broke the engineer's chair, and made a major dent in the
back wall of the engine cab.
They were quite surprised with this result, so they asked the FAA to check the
test to see if everything was done correctly. The FAA checked everything and
suggested that they might want to repeat the test using a thawed chicken.
