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Author: Al Franken
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Author: Lois McMaster Bujold
It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
Author: Jackie Mason
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Author: Eric A. Burns
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Author: Steve Jobs

During the heat of the space race in the
1960's, the U.S.
National
Aeronautics and Space Administration
decided it needed a ballpoint pen
to
write in the zero gravity
confines of its space capsules. After
considerable research and
development, the Astronaut Pen was developed
at
a cost of about $1
million U.S. The pen worked and also enjoyed some
modest success as a
novelty item back here on Earth. The Soviet Union,
faced with the
same problem, used a pencil.
This is the joke from a category: Aviation jokes
A mother and her son were
flying
"Southwest Airlines" from Kansas to
Chicago. The son (who had been looking
out the window) turned to his
mother and said, "If big dogs have baby
dogs and big cats have baby
cats,
why don't big planes have
baby planes?" The mother (who couldn't
think of
an answer) told
her son to ask the stewardess. So the boy asked the
stewardess, "If
big dogs have baby dogs and big cats have baby cats,
why
don't
big planes have baby planes?" The stewardess asked, "Did your
mother
tell you to ask me?" He said that his mother had. So the
stewardess
said, "Tell your mother that Southwest always pulls out on
time."
This is the joke from a category: Aviation jokes
One day at a busy
airport, the passengers
on a commercial
airliner are seated, waiting for the cockpit crew to
show
up so they can get underway.
The pilot and copilot
finally appear in the rear of the plane,
and begin walking up to the
cockpit through the center aisle.
Both appear to be blind.
The pilot is using a white cane, bumping into passengers right
and
left as he stumbles down the aisle, and the copilot is using
a guide
dog. Both have their eyes covered with huge
sunglasses.
At
first the passengers do not react; thinking that it must be
some sort
of practical joke. However, after a few minutes the
engines start
revving and the airplane starts moving down the
runway.
The
passengers look at each other with some uneasiness,
whispering among
themselves and looking desperately to the
stewardesses for
reassurance.
Then the airplane starts accelerating rapidly and people
begin
panicking. Some passengers are praying, and as the plane
gets
closer and closer to the end of the runway, the voices are
becoming
more and more hysterical.
Finally, when the airplane has
less than 20 feet of runway left,
there is a sudden change in the
pitch of the shouts as everyone
screams at once, and at the very last
moment the airplane lifts
off and is airborne.
Up in the
cockpit, the copilot breathes a sigh of relief and
turns to the pilot:
"You know, one of these days the passengers
aren't going to scream,
and we're gonna get killed!
This is the joke from a category: Aviation jokes
An airline pilot wrote that on this
particular flight he had hammered his ship into the runway really hard.
The airline had a policy, which required the first officer to stand at
the door while the passengers exited, give a smile, and a "Thanks
for
flying XYZ airline." He said that in light of his bad landing, he
had a
hard time looking the passengers in the eye, thinking that
someone
would have a smart comment, but no one seemed
annoyed.
Finally everyone had gotten off except for one little old lady walking
with a cane. She approached and asked, conspiratorially, "Sonny,
mind
if I ask you a question?"
"Why no Ma'am, what is
it?"
"Did we land or were we shot down?"
This is the joke from a category: Aviation jokes
An airline pilot was scheduled to take a
flight from New York to Los
Angeles. The weather was too bad in New York
to allow his usual on time
departure. The weather in New York
finally cleared and the pilot asked
for
his departure clearance. He
was very dismayed to hear that he had
another delay due to the
increased traffic now leaving New York.
Sometime later he finally
received his clearance and decided he would
try to make up the time
lost by asking for a direct route to Los
Angeles. Halfway across the
country he was told to turn due South. Knowing
that this turn would
now throw him further behind schedule he inquired,
quite
agitated, to the controller for the reason of the turn off course. The
controller replied that the turn was for noise abatement.
The pilot
was infuriated and said to the controller, "Look buddy, I am
already way behind schedule with all the delays you guys have given me
today. I really don't see how I could be causing a noise problem
for
pedestrians when I am over 6 miles above the earth!"
The
controller answered in a calm voice, "Apparently, Captain, you
have
never heard two 747's collide!"
This is the joke from a category: Aviation jokes