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From: ran@bentley.UUCP (R. Novo)
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Subject: Re: Ethnic Joke
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Date: Thu, 2-Aug-84 09:28:52 EDT
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Posted: Thu Aug  2 09:28:52 1984
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Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Piscataway
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This is the story of a small backward country which shall be known as 
Ethnicaria. It seems that during the late 1960's, and early 1970's, with
the Americans and Russians having such a gung-ho space program, the
ruler of this country became obsessed with leaving a mark in the history
of technology. After sending a team of top engineers and scientists to
investigate the problem, they decidied that their country's best contribution
to the world would be to make the largest helicopter in history. 

After 18 months of working on the problem, they finally developed a prototype
model for test flying. The day was all set for this historical event, and
the marine corps' ace pilot Lt. E (for Ethnic) was to fly the helicopter.
The press from all over the world was assembled as Lt. E climbed into the
cockpit of the chopper and took off. The engines purred like a pussycat
as the copter effortlessly climbed to 1000 feet and all of the spectators
oohed and aahed. The pilot was given clearance to climb to 2000 feet, and
did so with no problem. He then got clearance to go to 4000, then 8000 feet, 
and again, each time, no problem to the great approval of the crowd. Now
came the moment of truth, the helicopter was to climb to 16000 feet, and
set a new altitude record to be taken down in the Guinness book. The crowd
hushed down as the chopper began its ascent and susequently was lost in the
clouds. Then all of a sudden the crowd gasped as a sputtering noise was
heard, ant the helicopter came crashing down and burst into flames.
Miraculously, the pilot parachuted away, and escaped unharmed. The ruler
of the country who was one of the spectators, ran over to the pilot and
asked, "What happened? Everything was going so well until all of a sudden,
pfftt!" Lt. E looked up at his leader and said in a surprised voice, "Well
it got real cold up there, so all I did was to shut off the big fan."


						Robert  Novo
						Bell Labs
						Piscataway, NJ

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