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- Bloake, on 01/26/2009, -0/+73They're only getting rid of these now?
- borez, on 01/27/2009, -1/+63Sorry about that, but you were trying to take over the world.
- kevro, on 01/27/2009, -0/+48Wow. Straying off the tarmac is like getting a big ***** you, from 1942.
- mogebier, on 01/27/2009, -0/+40Wow. I don't feel so bad about putting off mowing the lawn for another week in the summer now.
I am an amateur procrastinator. - notyourbroom, on 01/27/2009, -1/+34I can picture the Digg headline now.
BREAKING:ROOSEVELT AUTHORIZED BOMBING THAT KILLED OBAMA!!!!11 - inactive, on 01/27/2009, -3/+33Another old pilot joke:
While taxiing at London's Gatwick Airport, the crew of a US Air flight departing for Ft. Lauderdale made a wrong turn and came nose to nose with a United 727. An irate female ground controller lashed out at the US Air crew, screaming: "US Air 2771, where the hell are you going?! I told you to turn right onto Charlie taxiway! You turned right on Delta! Stop right there. I know it's difficult for you to tell the difference between C and D, but get it right!"
Continuing her rage to the embarrassed crew, she was now shouting hysterically: "God! Now you've screwed everything up! It'll take forever to sort this out! You stay right there and don't move till I tell you to! You can expect progressive taxi instructions in about half an hour, and I want you to go exactly where I tell you, when I tell you, and how I tell you! You got that, US Air 2771?"
"Yes, ma'am," the humbled crew responded. Naturally, the ground control communications frequency fell terribly silent after the verbal bashing of US Air 2771. Nobody wanted to chance engaging the irate ground controller in her current state of mind. Tension in every cockpit out around Gatwick was definitely running high.
Just then an unknown pilot broke the silence and keyed his microphone, asking: "Wasn't I married to you once?" - superfusion, on 01/27/2009, -2/+28ATC -- "Sir, have you never flown into Berlin before?"
"Of course I have, but it was dark and we didn't land"
old but ... - subliminali, on 01/27/2009, -1/+24A plane was taking off from Kennedy Airport. After it reached a comfortable cruising altitude, the captain made an announcement over the intercom, "Ladies and gentlemen, this is your captain speaking. Welcome to Flight Number 293, nonstop from New York to Los Angeles. The weather ahead is good and therefore we should have a smooth and uneventful flight. Now sit back and relax -- OH MY GOD!" Silence followed and after a few minutes, the Captain came back on the intercom and said, "Ladies and Gentlemen, I'm so sorry if I scared you earlier, but while I was talking, the flight attendant brought me a cup of coffee and spilt it in my lap. You should see the front of my pants!" A passenger in Coach said, "That's nothing, he should see the back of mine!"
- Circuit, on 01/27/2009, -0/+22Dude.. Germany started it
- Fishn2, on 01/27/2009, -1/+19Whatever you do, don't mention the war.
- jonnyboy88, on 01/27/2009, -0/+18One more:
Allegedly, a Pan Am 727 flight waiting for start clearance in Munich overheard the following:
Lufthansa (in German): "Ground, what is our start clearance time?"
Ground (in English): "If you want an answer you must speak in English."
Lufthansa (in English): "I am a German, flying a German airplane, in Germany. Why must I speak English?"
Unknown voice from another plane (in a beautiful British accent): "Because you lost the bloody war." - madeingermany, on 01/26/2009, -2/+20Because we have a map of each an every bomb"of the more than 2.7 million tons of explosives dropped" and just didn't feel like cleaning up.
- Balath, on 01/27/2009, -4/+19It's taken them SIXTY-FIVE YEARS to decide that they'd better clear the unexploded ordinance from an AIRPORT?
Dear god, I wonder what the rest of Germany is like. - Fishn2, on 01/27/2009, -0/+15Nagging + wife = joke
- Grova, on 01/27/2009, -0/+12One more.....
The German air controllers at Frankfurt Airport are renowned as a short-tempered lot.
They not only expect one to know one's gate parking location, but how to get there
without any assistance from
them. So it was with some amusement that we (a Pan Am 747) listened to the following
exchange between Frankfurt ground control and a British Airways 747,
call sign Speedbird 206.
Speedbird 206: " Frankfurt , Speedbird 206 clear of active runway."
Ground: "Speedbird 206. Taxi to gate Alpha One-Seven."
The BA 747 pulled onto the main taxiway and slowed to a stop.
Ground: "Speedbird, do you not know where you are going?"
Speedbird 206: "Stand by, Ground, I'm looking up our gate location now."
Ground (with quite arrogant impatience):
"Speedbird 206, have you not been to Frankfurt before?"
Speedbird 206 (coolly): "Yes, twice in 1944, but it was dark, -- and I didn't land." - dman24752, on 01/27/2009, -0/+11Yeah, I was thinking they should've done this oh say, 50 years ago...
- doublefelix, on 01/26/2009, -8/+19Great shot of Air Force One seemingly straying off the tarmac there. Some photo editor just earned their paycheck.
- bunnybash, on 01/27/2009, -1/+12spoken like a true american who has never left the zipcode that their little redneck was born in...
i lived in america for 4 years and in berlin for 2 years, gimme Berlin over Orange County anyday!! - inactive, on 01/27/2009, -0/+9@bigsteve3OOO:
You don't know what the Treaty of Versailles was, do you? - SparkTR, on 01/27/2009, -0/+9"You Started it!"
"We did NOT start it"
"Yes you did, you invaded Poland" - toyrifle1, on 01/27/2009, -0/+9The Norwegian coastline are still packed with undetonated beautiful British mines from the 2nd world war, THANK YOU ENGLAND!!
- megamod, on 01/26/2009, -0/+8is it really straying? or is it another lane that we can't see? or is it off the ground and giving the impression that it's further away and not on the tamarac?
- strangeman, on 01/27/2009, -0/+8Answering all the threads asking why they're only cleaning up now:
Because they only just found them? Germany has been disarming these bombs on a daily basis for decades. I grew up in a rural area (no targets) and still, just in my neighborhood, there were a couple of bombs found every year. Leading to evacuations and controlled explosion. And that was 40-50 years after the war.
At this point I'd like to mention that Germany is the leading producer in the world for equipment to find bombs and mines. They probably figured out there were still bombs at that airport because someone just hit it with a shovel. This happens all over the country on a daily basis and isn't even mentioned in the news anymore. 64 years after the war! And mines weren't even that popular at the time, so we only have to find unexploded bombs.
Now think what happens to the countries that are completely filled with mines and not as developed as Germany. They will probably still be exploding mines in a hundret years, - 13373h4X0r, on 01/27/2009, -0/+8Coming soon to a PC near you: "Minesweeper: German Airport Edition"
- laibixi, on 01/27/2009, -2/+10Actually it's ok over here, idiot!
- mrevaaaaa, on 01/27/2009, -1/+9"Uh, attention ladies and gentlemen. Please fasten your seat belts. We're experiencing some... turbulence. Take-off will be delayed another 45 minutes."
- inactive, on 01/27/2009, -1/+8Honestly, yes.
You need a mechanism that will survive the impact of hitting an object at terminal velocity. Not as easy as it seems. In WW2 the US Navy struggled with problem regarding their torpedos, which would repeatedly strike an enemy ship and fail to detonate.
http://www.historynet.com/us-torpedo-troubles-febr ... - Akairenn, on 01/27/2009, -0/+7Yes.
- madeingermany, on 01/27/2009, -0/+7http://www.daylife.com/photo/00pk0cKbEpekC it's just a strange angle.
- subliminali, on 01/27/2009, -0/+6touche unreg. I wasn't seriously asking the question but now i seriously look like an *****.
- Hibno, on 01/27/2009, -0/+6I think it speaks more to the extent of the devastation, If one of the most technologically advanced industrial nations on Earth is still cleaning up after that war. The situation with the divided Berlin probably put them behind schedule, too.
- LaughingMan89, on 01/27/2009, -0/+5Well, they should've thought about that before losing WW1.
- BOFH139, on 01/27/2009, -0/+5http://www.deadsnow.com/
- inactive, on 01/27/2009, -3/+8Someone set them up the bomb
- wastelander, on 01/27/2009, -0/+5Buried for being old unexploded ordinance.
- Ovalteen, on 01/27/2009, -0/+4Considering how many they dropped in total 500+ is probably less than 1% failure rate. Give the QA guys a break.
- alricsca, on 01/27/2009, -2/+6Remind me to never ever play golf in this country! :-)
- jasdf, on 01/27/2009, -0/+4That joke sounds exactly like this situation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_TvMWCiEcA - inactive, on 01/27/2009, -0/+4Shouldn't have fired V-2 rockets at those British....
- weister42, on 01/27/2009, -1/+5What would Sully do?
- lelebelle, on 01/27/2009, -2/+6Did they just find these!? High five, Germany.
- TheHim, on 01/27/2009, -0/+3BOOOOM! You're dead.
- Claverhouse, on 01/27/2009, -1/+4Seconded.
- BossKey, on 01/27/2009, -2/+5This is why it's such a dumbass idea to start a war unless it's damn well justified (*cough*Iraq*cough*). So many countries around the world are still cleaning up mines and bombs from wars that "ended" decades ago, except for those who set off forgotten ordnance now. There are no "quick" wars that involve any form of a blitzkieg/shock and awe/carpet bombing campaign.
- jake1337, on 01/27/2009, -0/+3And the mayor will only pay me 100 caps to defuse it!!
- iRead, on 01/27/2009, -1/+4*Note to Self*: Do not move to Germany...ever...
- airwalkery2k, on 01/27/2009, -0/+3I'm glad I didn't know this when I flew into Tegel last year, or I may have been a little more tense upon landing. Luckily, I think they're building a new airport to replace it elsewhere in the few year or so.
- chriswastaken, on 10/27/2009, -0/+3Buried for being old.
- blackprizm, on 01/27/2009, -2/+4Serves ya right, you great, great grand children of ya Nazi bastards.
(Everybody loves a little Nazi joke now and then, right?.. Anybody?... Hello?) - inactive, on 01/27/2009, -0/+2Actually it was more like German fear of the USSR on their backdoor and communist agitation that led to Hitler's rise to power, Germans didn't have faith their Weimar Republic could protect them from Stalin.
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