[Leisler]

UK pondered suicide pigeon attacks

[Leisler]

A man had 50 yard line tickets for the Super
Bowl. As he sits down, a man comes down and asks if
anyone is
sitting in the seat next to him.

"No," he says, "The seat is empty."
"This is incredible," said the man. "Who in
their right mind would have a seat like this for the
Super Bowl, the biggest sporting event in the world,
and not use it?"

He says, "Well, actually, the seat belongs to
me. I was supposed to come with my wife, but she
passed away. This is the first Super Bowl we haven't
been to together since we got married in 1987."
"Oh...I'm sorry to hear that. That's terrible. But
couldn't you find someone else, a friend or relative,
or even a neighbor to take the seat?"
The man shakes his head. "No, they're all at the
funeral."


(maybe I shouldn't give up the day job)

[RightWhale]

Fire-bats, very scary.

[operation clinton cleanup]

Never hurts to think "outside the box".

[operation clinton cleanup]

"Pigeon research will not stand still; if we do not experiment, other powers will."

Glad the West avoided a pigeon gap!

[John Jorsett]

In WWII, engineers seriously considered using cats to steer bombs towards ships because "cats hate water." They had to actually drop a cat (in harness, so it didn't get hurt) to prove that it was a boneheaded idea. After that, I'd never think that just because it sounds insane, any idea was too far-out for those people, even bomb-warming chickens. Of course, there were any number of sensible ways that a bomb could have been kept at the right temp for a week, so I'm not buying this one, just on the grounds that easier techniques existed.

[Better Dead Than Red]

I read that we did the same thing with bats trying to burn down Japanese buildings during WWII. I think it was called Operation X-ray.

I still like the idea of the pidgeon guided bomb. Get a bird to peck at the image of a ship on a video screen to issue flight path corrections.

[GSlob]

'...curator of the Secret State exhibition"
Isn't it a contradiction in terms? If exhibition, then not Secret, and if secret, then no exhibition.

[ansel12]

"The landmine would be remotely detonated."

Thats a good idea with that type of device, I understand G.I.s vetoed the idea of a nuclear hand grenade.

[Izzy Dunne]

PETA would be all over this nuclear chicken roast.

[dirtboy]

The birds would be put inside the casing of the bomb, given seed to keep them alive and stopped from pecking at the wiring. The landmine would be remotely detonated.

Hey, if you wanna make an omlet, you gotta set off a few nukes...

[Buck W.]

Is that another chicken joke?

[Cheburashka]

Now I know why Slim Pickens rode the A-bomb down. To keep it at the correct temperature.

And I guess we could call these birds the Slim Pickens Chickens.

[Professional Engineer]

SOMEONE SET UP US THE CHICKEN BOMB.