[Mongoose]

And yeah, this collection is just about as old as the Internets itself, but it's still good for a chuckle.

[Klaustrophobia]

according to snopes, it's even OLDER than the internet and was circulated via hard copy

[FreeSpaceFreak]

*snip*

[Dilmah G]

according to snopes, it's even OLDER than the internet and was circulated via hard copy

Older...than....the internet?

[Herra Tohtori]

Older...than....the internet?

[Dilmah G]

 

* Dilmah G actually can't remember a world without internet.

[Flipside]

I remember when all this was Bulletin Boards running off home computers and modems at 300 bits per second...

[headdie]

in the early 90'2 i was on this http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=53623.msg1443032#msg1443032 no even allowed onto the internet until I left school in 2000 ( too interested in porn for my dad's liking lol )

[Klaustrophobia]

i'm stealing that.

[NGTM-1R]

Where, sir, shall I ship your just-won internet?

[Herra Tohtori]

Maybe you could email it to me via internet.

[Nuclear1]

It might take a while, internets tend to take a while when shipped

[General Battuta]

It might take a while, internets tend to take a while when shipped

an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o'clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially.

[Mika]

How could I have missed this thread?

Here is one page that has similar stuff.

Excerpt

There's a story about the military pilot calling for a priority landing, because his single-engine jet fighter was running "a bit peaked". Air Traffic Control told the fighter jock that he was number two, behind a B-52 that had one engine shut down.
 
"Ah", the fighter pilot remarked, "The dreaded Seven-Engine approach".

and

When one engine fails on a twin-engine airplane you always have enough power left to get you to the scene of the crash.

25. Mastering the prohibited maneuvers in the dash-1 is one of the best forms of aviation life insurance you can get.

 

[Mika]

Ever thought of the difficulties in disposing the porcelain toilet seat in the naval environment? Wait no more, this problem was solved in Vietnam War by US Navy. Yes, they loaded an A-1 with a toilet seat. Pics and the story can be found from here

[Nuclear1]

Heard over Tower Radio at Bagotville, Quebec, Canada.
First voice:"Roger, I'm holding at 3,000 feet over Bagot Beacon."
Second voice:"You can't be doing that. I'm holding over Bagot Beacon at 3,000 feet."
Long pause.
First voice: "You idiot. You're my copilot."

[FreeSpaceFreak]

I give that landing a 7 on the Richter scale.

[Mika]

Sometimes the truth is indeed stranger and funnier than fiction. Ladies and gentlemen, I present you the story of the aircraft that shot itself down.

Story can be found from here.

[headdie]

that is pretty mental really, you never really think of hitting your own rounds like that, good thing the pilot survived.

[Mongoose]

I've heard of old WWII fighters experiencing fire-sync failure and shooting off their own propellers, but that takes the cake.