http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5474 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Fri, 24 May 2013 23:53:42 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5474#post-15118 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:50:13 +0000 Doctor Moptop 15118@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>And failed...! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5474#post-15114 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 06:40:23 +0000 sauce 15114@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Ah, that explains it. They've been told to avoid cliche ... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5474#post-15099 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:54:59 +0000 Doctor Moptop 15099@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Cheers, ya'll.</p> <p>No, not Dan Brown. Students. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5474#post-15050 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:39:40 +0000 PluckyMunky 15050@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I loved your piece, Dr M (the text, not the appendage). You are probably familiar with this site, but in case you ain't, its:</p> <p><a href="http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/</a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5474#post-15015 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:48:33 +0000 Svendo 15015@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>@andhrimnir:<br /> It is how they test bird-strike collisions on most high speed modes of transport (trains get tested like this too).</p> <p>It is however also an urban legend about people firing frozen birds and wondering why it always broke the canopy (some versions of the legend have it as an American coming over to England to help the designers of the Intercity 125 trains). Mythbusters have done a couple of segments trying this and the difference between a frozen bird and a fresh bird hitting the canopy is negligible as the force is more of less the same. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5474#post-15005 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:41:16 +0000 andhrimnir 15005@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>isn't firing birds from a gun how they test the canopies for fighter jets?<br /> and isn't there a (urban myth?) story about one of the BAE cockpit teams heading out to the USA to help with gun calibration as the USA guys were destroying everything in sight - allegedly they were using frozen birds. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5474#post-15000 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 11:30:04 +0000 Doctor Moptop 15000@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>It's a gladiator, taken from an unfortunate angle - or perhaps I should rephrase that? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5474#post-14963 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 07:51:47 +0000 edward hack 14963@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Dear Dr.Moptop<br /> Should I have gone to Specsavers....or am I simply reading too much into your extremely well blessed gravatar.<br /> Yours N.V. Ouse </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5474#post-14948 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 06:47:58 +0000 sauce 14948@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Dr M, are those Dan Brown quotes? </p> <p>Coffee ... keyboard ... thanks, Quaz. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5474#post-14942 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 06:15:43 +0000 QorbeQ 14942@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Genuinely choked on my own throat laughing at briefly, in a kind of gutteral, turkey-gobble kind of way. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5474#post-14924 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 23:01:46 +0000 Doctor Moptop 14924@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>HAHAHAHA! </p> <p>"and they very briefly don't like it" - Superb! </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5474#post-14922 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:59:42 +0000 Quaz 14922@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Has anyone out there ever tried firing birds from a gun? It's messy, and they very briefly don't like it. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5474#post-14919 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:55:40 +0000 Doctor Moptop 14919@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Soz! Like not life. Not that it makes the simile any better ... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5474#post-14916 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:54:11 +0000 rikkor 14916@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>"Life bullet"?, Alice B. Clueless. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5474#post-14911 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:35:12 +0000 Doctor Moptop 14911@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I 'spect that 'enormous banana' was keeping you awake.</p> <p>Not that I'm bitter. Or jealous. Or a fan of exotic fruit anyway. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5474#post-14909 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:32:08 +0000 rickwestwell 14909@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Don't mock - female hair loss must be very distressing. Ooh - "distressing", I made a funnny!<br /> Sorry, I only got 2 hours sleep last night. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=5474#post-14903 Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:28:14 +0000 Doctor Moptop 14903@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>His eyes flickered round the room like two lightbulbs that needed changing.</p> <p>She clung to him like a cardigan to a coathanger.</p> <p>The birds sped past the window like bullets fired from a gun.</p> <p>He absailed past the stained glass windows depicting Jesus and was suddenly struck by romantic thoughts.</p> <p>Looking with her eyes, she read the ransom note.</p> <p>She typed on the keyboard using her fingers.</p> <p>Hair fell in an endless cascade from her head...</p> <p>----------------------------------------------</p> <p>Thanks for that. I feel much better now. </p>