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Sameer
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When Gertrude entered the plane, she caused her own death as well as deaths of 200 people. Nobody blamed or criticised her though. Why?
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Re: Gertrude
« Reply #1 on: Nov 26th, 2006, 8:26pm » |
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Gertrude is a bird and was sucked into the engine causing the plane to crash.
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
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Re: Gertrude
« Reply #2 on: Nov 27th, 2006, 4:14am » |
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Gertrude is a rocket?
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Re: Gertrude
« Reply #3 on: Nov 27th, 2006, 4:22am » |
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Gertrude is an asteroid?
(perhaps if it had been a greek or roman name instead)
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Wikipedia, Google, Mathworld, Integer sequence DB
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Re: Gertrude
« Reply #4 on: Nov 27th, 2006, 8:32am » |
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Mack the Knife put nitroglycerin in Gertrude's favorite earrings. Mack's cousin, Jack the Knife, was in that plane. Mack hates Jack, and he knows that Jack is a kleptomaniac, so Jack jumps and grabs the expensive earrings right away. This triggers nitroglycerin to explode, and Mack got two flies with one stone, since Gertrude was his wife.
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Sameer
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Re: Gertrude
« Reply #5 on: Nov 27th, 2006, 9:12am » |
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DL got it. Gertrude is a goose actually. There have been lot of incidents of jet planes crashing due to geese.
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cchris
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Re: Gertrude
« Reply #6 on: Nov 27th, 2006, 5:41pm » |
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Well I'd blame the bird for the plane crash..
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Re: Gertrude
« Reply #7 on: Nov 28th, 2006, 7:31pm » |
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Gertrude entered the plane, was pushed by a terrorist from behind, fell on a skateboard, slid into the pilots room, knocked out the pilot, hit the lever on the plane to make it go forward, the plane went forward, and crashed into a building which incidentally was a fireworks factory. The plane then blows up and everyone dies although it wan't Gertrude's fault. 
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