amazing but true

[Fourteenth Eye]

>
>> >Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket Scientist!! (true story)
> >
> >Scientists at Rolls Royce built a gun specifically to launch dead
chickens
> >at the windshields of airliners, and military jets , all traveling at
> >maximum velocity. The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of
> >collisions with
airborne
> >fowl to test the strength of the windshields.
> >
> >American engineers heard about the gun and were eager to test it on
> >the windshields of their new high speed trains. Arrangements were
> >made, and a gun was sent to the American engineers. When the gun was
> >fired, the engineers stood shocked as the chicken hurled out of the
> >barrel, crashed into the shatterproof shield, smashed it to
> >smithereens, blasted through the control console, snapped the
> >engineer's back-rest in two and embedded itself in
the
> >back wall of
> >the cabin, like an arrow shot from a bow.
> >
> >The horrified Yanks sent Rolls Royce the disastrous results of the
> >experiment, along with the designs of the windshield and begged the
British
> >scientists for suggestions.
> >
> >You're going to love this......
> >
> >
> >Rolls Royce responded with a one-line memo:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >"Defrost the chicken."
> >
> >

 

[Dropkick Turnip]

Neither amazing or true

When are the fixtures out, when's Kanchelskis going to sign, etc. etc.

 

[Kryten]