Incredible pilot who lost both legs below the knee. He thought it gave him an advantage with respect to g forces when flying.
George Beurling also has an incredible story.
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The guy was a prick according to the men who were imprisoned with him in Colditz (he was shot down, captured and spent the rest of his war there) but a determined person to fly a plane with tin legs and walk without a cane.
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Oh man, that was even funnier than the – Carpedonktum Knocks It Out of the Park Again – Nike Commercial: Trump Version post.
Kind of reminded of the joke told when I was in grade school about little Johnny, the most foul-mouthed kid in 5th grade class.
Each child was to spell a word from the letter they were given from the alphabet. A, apple for example. The teacher feared Johnny would spell some curse word with every letter and wouldn’t call on him as he kept waving his hand as the letters progressed. When she got to the letter R she couldn’t think of any curse word that that started with R, and cautiously called on Johnny. Johnny said, ” R, r-a-t, Rat. A great big f__king rat with a dick as long as his tail.”
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just sayen, the word he might have actually been sayen is Focke, as in Focke-Wulf Fw 190
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I hard that years ago as a boy and always thought it was a joke.
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BB – No, it is Fokker. They were a Dutch company. They were made famous in WWI by making the German tri-wing fighters and made planes for Germany between the wars. They did make some planes for the Luftwaffe in WWII, but not fighters.
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Blink – I hoid the version where Little Johnny came up with the word “urinate”.
“Mrs. Fur, my word is urinate and this is how I’d use it in a sentence:”
“Teacher, urinate… and if ya had bigger tits you’d be a ten!”
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ROTFL!
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Good morning all, my first read today, and a good day it is.
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I thought that old joke was long forgotten! When I worked in aerospace back in the 70’s one of the pieces of test equipment in my lab was an ultrasonic tester that would look for voids in bonded surfaces, and it was made by FOKKER (Royal Netherlands Aircraft). When prospective customers were given a tour of our facility they would be brought to me lab where I would give a quick presentation on our test procedures, and my boss would always make me tell that joke when the FOKKER was mentioned. Only difference in my version the RAF pilot was a Swede name Sven!
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When I was a kid that old joke was making the rounds as a war story that had nothing to do with Douglas Bader. In the original version the pilot had a Swedish accent, and the punch line was, “No, no – dese fokkers vas flying Messerschmitts!”
Funnier that way. I kinda doubt if Bader ever even heard the joke, but thanks to the Internet he now has his name attached to it.
Priceless!
Incredible pilot who lost both legs below the knee. He thought it gave him an advantage with respect to g forces when flying.
George Beurling also has an incredible story.
The guy was a prick according to the men who were imprisoned with him in Colditz (he was shot down, captured and spent the rest of his war there) but a determined person to fly a plane with tin legs and walk without a cane.
Oh man, that was even funnier than the – Carpedonktum Knocks It Out of the Park Again – Nike Commercial: Trump Version post.
Kind of reminded of the joke told when I was in grade school about little Johnny, the most foul-mouthed kid in 5th grade class.
Each child was to spell a word from the letter they were given from the alphabet. A, apple for example. The teacher feared Johnny would spell some curse word with every letter and wouldn’t call on him as he kept waving his hand as the letters progressed. When she got to the letter R she couldn’t think of any curse word that that started with R, and cautiously called on Johnny. Johnny said, ” R, r-a-t, Rat. A great big f__king rat with a dick as long as his tail.”
just sayen, the word he might have actually been sayen is Focke, as in Focke-Wulf Fw 190
I hard that years ago as a boy and always thought it was a joke.
BB – No, it is Fokker. They were a Dutch company. They were made famous in WWI by making the German tri-wing fighters and made planes for Germany between the wars. They did make some planes for the Luftwaffe in WWII, but not fighters.
Blink – I hoid the version where Little Johnny came up with the word “urinate”.
“Mrs. Fur, my word is urinate and this is how I’d use it in a sentence:”
“Teacher, urinate… and if ya had bigger tits you’d be a ten!”
ROTFL!
Good morning all, my first read today, and a good day it is.
I thought that old joke was long forgotten! When I worked in aerospace back in the 70’s one of the pieces of test equipment in my lab was an ultrasonic tester that would look for voids in bonded surfaces, and it was made by FOKKER (Royal Netherlands Aircraft). When prospective customers were given a tour of our facility they would be brought to me lab where I would give a quick presentation on our test procedures, and my boss would always make me tell that joke when the FOKKER was mentioned. Only difference in my version the RAF pilot was a Swede name Sven!
When I was a kid that old joke was making the rounds as a war story that had nothing to do with Douglas Bader. In the original version the pilot had a Swedish accent, and the punch line was, “No, no – dese fokkers vas flying Messerschmitts!”
Funnier that way. I kinda doubt if Bader ever even heard the joke, but thanks to the Internet he now has his name attached to it.
🙂