Joke...

[Remote]

CANADIANS: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the south to avoid a collision.

AMERICANS: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the north to avoid a collision.

CANADIANS: Negative. You will have to divert your course 15 degrees to the south to avoid a collision.

AMERICANS: This is the captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert YOUR course.

CANADIANS: No, I say again, you divert YOUR course.

AMERICANS: This is the Aircraft Carrier US LINCOLN, the second largest ship in the United States Atlantic Fleet. We are accompanied with three Destroyers, three Cruisers and numerous support vessels. I DEMAND that you change your course 15 degrees north. I say again, that's one-five degrees north, or counter-measures will be undertaken to ensure the safety of this ship.

CANADIANS: This is a lighthouse. Your call.

Btw, this is a real radio conversation of a US naval ship with
Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland in October 1995. Radio conversation released by the chief of naval operations, 10-10-95.

[blizz]

ROFLOL

[Jaz]

*LOL*

[RadeonUser]

Good joke :D

Makes me wonder though...

[Martin]

Hahaha...and for some reason I'm not too shocked. /me waves Canadian flag. :D

[yogaman]

oh *god bless america* ....lol

[Malcolm]

it just so true

[Jaz]

Canada Rules! :D

[flow``]

blame canada..

[Allnatural]

Canadians need to stop sailing there lighthouses around the Atlantic.:sly:

;)

[2fast4u]

rofl :D took me a while, damn my english.

[Macca]

lol, thats a funny one :p and so tru of the americans :D

[Raging Fuel]

I've seen that before. I don't think its real, but its still funny :D

[vampireuk]

when NASA and the Russian Space Agency met after the end of the cold war, they could for the first time discuss ideas and the problems that they had faced.

NASA: One of the problems we faced was how to write in space. You see, an ordinary ball-point pen won't work in zero gravity.

Russians: Yeah we know, so what was your solution?

NASA: Well we spent millions of dollars developing a special pen that had a tiny compressed air cylinder inside that would force the ink out when you pressed the pen against the paper. What did you guys do?

Russians: We used a pencil.

:D

[Slougi]

hehe so true ;)

[blizz]

It's only funny because it's true :D

[DuDe]

It ain`t true... That joke has like 10 different variations, each time with the Canadians changing into a different country. I myself remeber reading that joke way back in 93-94, and it was in a book that was printed in 91, only those weren`t Canadians in the joke, those were Russians. Still a funny joke though.

[2fast4u]

hehe, heard that one already. dunno if its true or not. its funny :D

[Remote]

I wouldn't expect it to be true, if it were they would never have released it, would they... But as long as they make me smile I don't really care if they are true or not...

[blizz]

Originally posted by DuDe_
It ain`t true... That joke has like 10 different variations, each time with the Canadians changing into a different country. I myself remeber reading that joke way back in 93-94, and it was in a book that was printed in 91, only those weren`t Canadians in the joke, those were Russians. Still a funny joke though.

*cough* NASA did develop a pen for space

[vampireuk]

I think he meant the ship one :) either way its to be expected from the yanks:D

[pj64er]

this joke is not a true story:

http://www.snopes.com/military/lighthse.htm

but its still funny:D

[pj64er]

nothing against aussies:



The reuse of some object-oriented code has caused tactical headaches for Australia's armed forces. As virtual reality simulators assume larger roles in helicopter combat training , programmers have gone to great lengths to increase the realism of the their scenarios, including detailed landscapes and -- in the case of the Northern Territory's Operation Phoenix -- herds of kangaroos (since groups of disturbed animals might well give away a helicopters position).

The head of the Defense Science and Technology Organization's Land Operations/Simulations division reportedly instructed developers to model the local marsupials' movements and reaction to helicopters.

Being efficient programmers, they just re-appropriated some code originally used to model infantry detachments reactions under the same stimuli, changed the mapped icon from a soldier to a kangaroo, and increased the figures' speed of movement.

Eager to demonstrate their flying skills for some visiting American pilots, the hotshot Aussies "buzzed" the virtual kangaroos in low flight during a simulation. The kangaroos scattered, as predicted, and the Americans nodded appreciatively . . . and then did a double-take as the kangaroos reappeared from behind a hill and launched a barrage of stinger missiles at the hapless helicopter. (Apparently the programmers had forgotten the remove "that" part of the infantry coding).


:D

this had a true origin, but was twisted a lot as it passed from person to person.