I heard it with a rabbi
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Frauenfelder just posted much the same thing on the Other Site.
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I think that should be Rabbit 
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yeah, I was going to accuse him of biting off of us, but then I saw his post was referencing someoneâs new podcast about the same topic. thatâs a kooky coincidence, but coincidence it seems to truly be.
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The navigator on that first raid over Essen was my bossâs uncle. (He did three full tours, a statistical outlier, and ended a Squadron Leader.)
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I believe Richard Feynman held the original patent, because the US govt. asked the Los Alamos people what ideas they could think of for using nuclear power and he suggested it as a joke. So they patented it.
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Another good idea glowing with atomic goodness.
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Teller was surely one of the nastiest people imaginable; consumed with pride, utterly amoral. Itâs just as well he wasnât working for Hitler, I am sure he would have been just fine with Nazi ideology so long as they let him detonate big bombs.
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True this. One of the biggest failings I have as a person is I forget that not everyone knows as much as I do. If I realize that someone doesnât know something, I do my best to either show them where to get more info or teach them about the subject.
I donât always succeed in either, but Iâll keep trying.
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Oblig repeat of well known Welsh sergeant joke, addressing recruits: âI am never wrong. Ever. Actually thatâs not true. I once thought I was wrong about something, and I wasnât.â
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I read that in the voice of Windsor Davis
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Presumably thatâs what happened to Snowball Earth.
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One of only two Lancasters in the world in flying condition is in the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum in Hamilton, Ontario. You can buy a one-hour flight for the bargain price of $3500, so we occasionally see it flying low over Lake Ontario. The sound is unmistakable.
http://www.warplane.com/aircraft/collection/details.aspx?aircraftId=4
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Thereâs a bit in Alex Henshawâs Spitfire where all the fighter test pilots have been transferred to Lancasters while they repaired bombed-out Spitfire factories.
According to the story, Henshaw noticed that his co-pilot had his seatbelt undone and wasnât paying attention. So he dived just enough to pop him out of his seat, then aileron-rolled the Lanc while keeping him floating in the middle of the cockpit. 
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Well apparently paltypus insist on defending their crown when comes to the odd mammal contest.
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This is why god invented trains. All cars moving at the same speed.
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