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Date: 22 Oct 96 12:48:19 EDT
From: Jean-Louis BUISSON <101234.2554@CompuServe.COM>
To: "\"William S. Alek\"" <wsalek@primenet.com>
Cc: ERIC BEHAR <ebehar@denro.com>, "\"Robert J. Brown\"" <rj@eli.wariat.org>,
        CHRISTOPHE PETELLAT <cpetella@ix.netcom.com>,
        Nicolas Thauvin <nthauvin@wam.umd.edu>,
        Martin Wielgus <mwielgus@interramp.com>
Subject: joke


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De :	Molly Tennis, 74631,1203
A :	Jean-Louis BUISSON, 101234,2554
DATE :	17/10/1996 23:14

RE :	joke

A helicopter was flying around above Seattle yesterday when an electrical
malfunction disabled all of the aircraft's electronic navigation and
communications equipment.

Due to the clouds and haze, the pilot could not determine the   
helicopter's
position and course to steer to the airport. The pilot saw a tall   
building,
flew toward it, circled, drew a handwritten sign, and held it in the
helicopter's window. The pilot's sign said "WHERE AM I?" in large   
letters.

People in the tall building quickly responded to the aircraft, drew a   
large
sign, and held it in a building window. Their sign said "YOU ARE IN A
HELICOPTER."

The pilot smiled, waved, looked at his map, determined the course to   
steer to
SEATAC airport, and landed safely.

After they were on the ground, the co-pilot asked the pilot how the "YOU   
ARE
IN A HELICOPTER" sign helped determine their position.The pilot responded   
"I
knew that had to be the MICROSOFT building because, similar to their
help-lines, they gave me a technically correct but completely useless   
answer."
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