And you heard it in dikkity 007!

/damn kaiser

twenty double oh seven?

You make no sense.

Why is this reported on WZZM 13, a Grand Rapids, Michigan station?

Now they'll never save your brain, Hitler!

i didnt know that was still the style?

....I dont get it, but then again I havent had enough caffiene for my cortex to be firing on all cylinders....


/wtf is with the onions?

Federal authorities are investigating the cause.


© Didn't is say just a couple of paragraphs into the story what the cause was?

old guys are tuff

HAHAHA! Bi!

Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the hows-your-father. Hairy Blighter, dicky-birded, feathered back on his sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harpers, and caught his can in the bertie.

"HAHAHA! BI!"

i really can not stop laughing at that.

gothelder

Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. 'Give me five bees for a quarter,' you'd say.

gothelder, this should explain everything...

"Who has got der lass laff now Englisher schwein?"

"We can't bust heads like we used to, but we have our ways. One trick is to tell 'em stories that don't go anywhere -- like the time I caught the ferry over to Shelbyville. I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. 'Give me five bees for a quarter,' you'd say.

"Now where were we? Oh yeah -- the important thing was that I had an onion on my belt, which was the style at the time. They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those big yellow ones..."

i really dont understand what the sexual preference of the plane has to do with anything

*high-five* to smitty for using WZZM as a source!

/with snowdrifts at 6 feet plus, posting on Fark is the extent of our activities

It's not a biplane, it's just curious.

bizlat

http://forums.fark.com/cgi/fark/comments.pl?IDLink=2585402

Great minds think alike?

Combat Medici: Bally Jerry pranged his kite right in the hows-your-father. Hairy Blighter, dicky-birded, feathered back on his sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harpers, and caught his can in the bertie.

Nice Python reference! I originally thought the "onion" headline was from the Cycling Tour episode.

Talk about a joke I saw coming a mile away...from both directions.

vanettej

You're lucky...it's looking like my college will be open tomorrow despite the snow. I keep refreshing the school closings every half hour, hoping...

drharmful: i really dont understand what the sexual preference of the plane has to do with anything

Comedy gold.

I wasn't aware anyone was still flying biplanes in WWII. Can any of the Fark airplane-heads confirm this?

Doc_attheRadarStation: I wasn't aware anyone was still flying biplanes in WWII. Can any of the Fark airplane-heads confirm this?

Yes. Some people were. Of course they were more advanced than the airplanes used during WWI, but they were used in several battles.

They always blame it on acrobatics when we all know they're just trying to stop that pidgeon.

GIS for "onion belt"

Picture of said biplane pilot:

yeap, The russian Po-2 was a biplane, German HS-123 was a rather successful german dive bomber in the early stages, and the British Fairey Swordfish contributed heavily (took out the rudder) in sinking the Bismark/KO'in the Italian Fleet at Tarento and defending Malta against the Germans.

Thats just a few examples btw

The real pilot.



/Biiii...plane. Biiii...plane.
//Oh, come on, someone had to say it.

Doc_attheRadarStation I wasn't aware anyone was still flying biplanes in WWII. Can any of the Fark airplane-heads confirm this?

Sure. The Gloster Gladiator, Fairey Swordfish, the Italian CR-42. As well, ship-launched spotter planes were usually biplanes.

Hmm... "On Saturday afternoon off the coast of California's Palos Verdes Peninsula, pilot Harry Haggard's 1942 Boeing Stearmann collided with pilot Ralph Baxter's 1940 Waco after the latter vintage biplane took off from Torrance Municipal Airport, the Los Angeles Times said." here

Hee hee, a Fairey Swordfish bi-plane...

Once flew in the navy version of the Boeing Stearman (same plane, 3x the cost, gvmt. contracting) What a thrill, open cockpit, goggles, baseball bat sized control stick. Bought my dad a ride in it for father's day. About a year later saw it crashed in the woods, killing one and injuring another.

/love old planes, especially when they don't crash
//still getting a kick out of Fairey Swordfish bi-plane nicknamed the "string-bag". (Of course, the British didn't do teabags back then.)