Another old joke recirculating. Bandit sent this to me as a political joke. I've tricked him and found the original (from what I remember). Like I said it's an old joke.
And I also found a newer joke to go along with yesterdays microsoft joke.
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A man in a hot air balloon realised he was lost. He reduced altitude and spotted a man below. He descended a bit more and shouted, “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago, but I don’t know where I am.”
The man below replied, “You’re in a hot air balloon hovering approximately 30 feet above the ground. You’re between 40 and 41 degrees north latitude and between 59 and 60 degrees west longitude.”
“You must be an engineer,” said the balloonist.
“I am,” replied the man, “How did you know?”
“Well,” answered the balloonist, “everything you told me is technically correct, but I’ve no idea what to make of your information, and the fact is I’m still lost. Frankly, you’ve not been much help at all. If anything, you’ve delayed my trip.”
The man below responded, “You must be in Management.”
“I am,” replied the balloonist, “but how did you know?”
“Well,” said the man, “you don’t know where you are or where you’re going. You have risen to where you are due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise, which you’ve no idea how to keep, and you expect people beneath you to solve your problems. The fact is you are in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but now, somehow, it’s my fault.”
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A helicopter was flying around above Seattle when an electrical malfunction disabled all of the aircraft's electronic navigation and communications equipment.
Due to the clouds and haze, the pilot could not determine the helicopter's position. The pilot saw a tall building, flew toward it, circled, and held up a handwritten sign that said "WHERE AM I?" in large letters. People in the tall building quickly responded to the aircraft, drew a large sign, and held it in a building window. Their sign said "YOU ARE IN A HELICOPTER."
The pilot smiled, waved, looked at his map, determined the course to steer to SEATAC airport, and landed safely. After they were on the ground, the copilot asked the pilot how he had done it.
"I knew it had to be the Microsoft Building, because they gave me a technically correct but completely useless answer."
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Engineer/Management works quite nicely. Did Microsoft make any components of the copter's electrical system.
This is the 2nd time this happened. This morning I logged onto your blog, read your Sat. post, then logged off to do a few other things. A few minutes later I logged back on to make a comment and your Sat. post was gone (it began with Friday's). I logged on the 3rd time and Sat. was back. Have you heard of this before?
I have an iMac desktop and a Windows Vista laptop. You can't make a funny enough joke about Microsoft.
B - The disappearing blog parts has been happening for sometime now. That's why if you think somebody deleted your comment you should hit the refresh button first before getting upset.
This also may have something to do with Internet Exporer since nobody else is talking about it and most other people use Firefox.
B - I typed so much I forgot to comment on your comment. See end of previous comment.
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