Controlled flight into glass

Larry Dighera wrote:
On 11 Jan 2007 07:31:26 -0800, "tom" wrote in
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No wonder the poor bird crashed. He must have been grossly fatigued
from flying 60000 hours in only two years. What is that, roughly
triple time?

3.4246575342465753424657534246575 times (depending on the effect of a
possible leap year) :-)

Perhaps the anonymous author of the article will share his
time-machine with his readership in a future article.

Maybe it was people years and bird hours

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Give me a break...
IT'S THE ONION!!!!
(we're not talking the NYTimes, Newsweek, Fox, or whatever)

It's ok to laugh occasionally, don't take everything so damn seriously.


Ryan (in Madison, the original hometown of the "Onion")

On 11 Jan 2007 09:35:31 -0800, wrote in
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It's ok to laugh occasionally,

Inane != funny.

"John" wrote:
Great article from The Onion...Writer has to be a pilot or someone
connected with aviation....

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50901

What nonsense - everyone knows that Sparrows can't talk and they are
terrible typists because they hunt-and-peck.

Larry Dighera writes:

I'm an admirer of good satirical humor, but this thinly disguised
piece aimed at denigrating airmen is not funny. Rather it attempts to
unapologetically ridicule airmen in the eyes of the lay public without
any redeeming merit.

Someone is being hypersensitive.

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He must have been grossly fatigued
from flying 60000 hours in only two years. What is that, roughly
triple time?

He's using tach time, not hobbs time.

Jose

Kevin Clarke wrote:

Larry Dighera wrote:


http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50901


"Of course it's scary, but I'm not going to stop flying because of
it," sparrow Darryl Beardsley said, echoing the apparent sentiment
of millions of other sparrows worldwide. "I guess it's just my
nature."

I'm an admirer of good satirical humor, but this thinly disguised
piece aimed at denigrating airmen is not funny. Rather it attempts to
unapologetically ridicule airmen in the eyes of the lay public without
any redeeming merit.


Aww c'mon Larry. It is the Onion. This is what they do. I didn't take it
that they were denigrating airmen at all. You can't really enjoy
laughing at others if you can't laugh at yourself first.

True, anyone reading the Onion shouldn't expect much.

Matt

On 1/11/07 4:03 AM, in article
, "John"
wrote:

Great article from The Onion...Writer has to be a pilot or someone
connected with aviation....


http://www.theonion.com/content/node/50901


John


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Larry Dighera wrote:


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Oh, now I see.

Satire from a leftist political perspective == funny
Anything else != funny

Thanks for clearing that up.

I'm an admirer of good satirical humor, but this thinly disguised
piece aimed at denigrating airmen is not funny. Rather it attempts to
unapologetically ridicule airmen in the eyes of the lay public without
any redeeming merit.



Now that you mention it, I agree with you. There seems to be a
pattern at the Onion of making fun of different groups of society, and
they do seem to pick on people and groups who can't defend themselves.

For example, consider the following Onion articles which make fun of
Republicans, Democrats, Nancy Pelosi, John McCain, Russell Feingold and
lobsters.

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/31600
http://www.theonion.com/content/news...ts_congress_to
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/49841
http://www.theonion.com/content/node...8&special=2002


I am OK with the Onion making fun of Republicans and Democrats.
However, the last article is a thinly disguised piece aimed at
denigrating lobsters and is not funny. Rather it attempts to
unapologetically ridicule lobsters in the eyes of the lay public
without any redeeming merit.