Re: B52 v Concorde

[spank]

On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:58:56 +0200, "Julien ROBIN"
> wrote:

>
>By the way, at the end of september 2001, there was a joke saying "a
>terrorist try to destroy Tour Monparnasse, we crashed his ultra light
>airplane on it. Casualities : 1 dead people : the terrorist"
We had a similar joke in UK about the IRA trying to blow up The Canary
Wharf tower.....But the airship kept bouncing off....(GR&D)

[John Mullen]

"spank" > wrote in message
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> On Fri, 11 Apr 2003 18:58:56 +0200, "Julien ROBIN"
> > wrote:
>
> >
> >By the way, at the end of september 2001, there was a joke saying "a
> >terrorist try to destroy Tour Monparnasse, we crashed his ultra light
> >airplane on it. Casualities : 1 dead people : the terrorist"
> We had a similar joke in UK about the IRA trying to blow up The Canary
> Wharf tower.....But the airship kept bouncing off....(GR&D)

That's IMO a lot less funny as the IRA were rather good at blowing up bits
of London when they were that way inclined.

John