al Asaad

Travelocity has a commerical showing their "Elf" roasting a marshmallow, then falling off a cliff.
During the fall, the Elf smashes into an innocent Pigeon, the assumption being, when one considers the burst of feathers that follows, the falling Elf "killed" the Pidgeon.
My 6 year-old grandson was concerned: "...why did the man kill the bird Grandpa"?

I had no answers for him.
The "murder", is, after all, gratuitous and certainly not "funny" (ha-ha).
Why didn't they bounce the "Elf" off the cliff face instead (ha-ha)?

So why did Travelocity kill the bird?

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Start by telling him, it's not a real bird and it was supposed to be a grownup joke, but even grownups don't think it's funny. Sometimes jokes just don't work as inteneded.

He's not to young to know about special effects.

Free Parking

"Because you touch yourself."

Comicsartist

I told you that damned gnome was a menace.

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jowey

I still dont get that Gnome & pigeon one.

I did get the Red Bull one where the guy drinks the Bull flies over the pigeon and drops a load....
.....what is with pigeon's anyway ?

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Rats of the sky.

Rigged

The current commercial mystery IMO is the Taco Bell commercial where the girls are in the club and one pulls out a taco--which she keeps in her purse apparently--to attract men...cause they love bacon...in her purse...


I dunno why but I laughed at it for like 5mins...maybe it was the weed lol

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OhGizmo! » Archive » F-111 Fighters And Pelicans Don’t Mix

babylonDon

"Ever wonder what would happen if a pelican hit an F-111 that was flying at just over 340mph?"

I think of little else.

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al Asaad

Yah-the "F-111B" was a serious bone of contention back in the 60s when it was known by its Defense Department code name "TFX" (Tactical Fighter Experimental).

All sorts of political and Defense Department intrigues surrounded the bidding on the final contract, with all the big hitters in Defense trying for the then huge contract.
Needless to say, the FTX has been one of the best kept secrets in the US Air Force, its sterling combat record, like in Libya, a part of Air Force legends.

The fact it still flies and performs spectacularly more than fifty years after the first designs hit the drawing boards also speaks well of its sturdy construction and amazing speed with a full load of ordnance on board.

All during the Cold War the Russians had a special dread of the FTX. Designed, like the US Air Force B-58 "Hustler" as a "penetrator", the Russians, fearing their speed and subsequent almost 100% lethality over a target, spent huge sums of monies to defeat both aircraft.
Whole new arrays of high-speed Russian radars had to be invented to deal with the "Aardvark", its comical though deadly nickname.

Then as now, its pilots doated on the "Pig" as some called it, their admiration bordering on culthood.

Best known by the public for its "swing wing" (precursor to its Navy "cousin" the F-14 Tomcat), the F111 was actually too huge to really be classified as a "fighter".

Nonetheless, the "Aardvark" has its many devotees.

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