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Humour: Flying and Microsoft

14 April 2008 - 10:21am — Bevan

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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17 October 2008 - 3:16am — Quality of Life (not verified)

Humour

Now thats really makes me laugh. I don't care what other saids bu its the best!!

25 June 2008 - 11:59pm — ilyas (not verified)

That did make me laugh for

That did make me laugh for few minutes and i forwarded that joke to few of my friends. The message you passed from this post is 90% true, Microsoft are technically correct but they are almost completely useless.

27 April 2008 - 11:47pm — Geekhall Admin (not verified)

Microsoft really answers like that.

I had a problem with some hard drives ( the motherboard didn't see them at Windows Vista) I emailed them and they responded, giving me really accurate answer. "We've discovered , that Your mainboard has a compatibility problem with Your hard drives. Thank You for Your time".... blah. Never again mailing their support, ists worthless.

25 April 2008 - 8:28am — Aircraftdata (not verified)

MS is soo easy to make fun of

MS is soo easy to make fun of :) Spinning further on the helicopters etc - you probably heard of the new airline company, "Windows Airlines":

"The terminal is very neat and clean, the attendants all very attractive, the pilots very capable. The fleet of Learjets the carrier operates is immense. Your jet takes off without a hitch, pushing above the clouds, and at 20,000 feet it explodes without warning."

/Maya
http://www.aircraftdata.net

18 April 2008 - 1:24am — Michael Green (not verified)

Reminds me of those ATC jokes

That story reminds me of all those aircraft mainentance jokes about pilots writing comments in their tech logs about faults on their aircraft, only to find sarcastic responses from the maintenance people in return.

Michael
http://CamerasAndCamcordersUK.com

14 April 2008 - 12:40pm — Tamas (not verified)

This reminds me of the

This reminds me of the classical management vs IT joke, which gives it another twist:

A man in a hot air balloon realised he was lost. He reduced altitude and spotted a woman 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 woman 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 woman, "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 woman below responded, "You must be in Management."

"I am," replied the balloonist, "but how did you know?"

"Well," said the woman, "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."