Two things
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lizziecThe first one is contributed by my mother who obviously has nothing better to do with herself. I hasten to add that this story is in the current Home Office staff newsletter...
Chicken Gun
Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket scientist. Scientists at Roll Royce built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at the windscreens of airliners, and military jets, all travelling at maximum velocity. The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windscreens. 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 shatter proof 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 windscreens and begged the British scientists for suggestions. Rolls Royce responded with a one-line memo: "Defrost the chicken."
And secondly...Stuart Townsend as Aragorn! :o
Sometimes it DOES take a Rocket scientist. Scientists at Roll Royce built a gun specifically to launch dead chickens at the windscreens of airliners, and military jets, all travelling at maximum velocity. The idea is to simulate the frequent incidents of collisions with airborne fowl to test the strength of the windscreens. 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 shatter proof 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 windscreens and begged the British scientists for suggestions. Rolls Royce responded with a one-line memo: "Defrost the chicken."
And secondly...Stuart Townsend as Aragorn! :o
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