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November 6, 2009

Birdy bread-bomber’s shenanigans shut the LHC …

Filed under: Merseyrail, Not Merseyrail — Tags: , , , — Chris @ 3:31 pm
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Photo: http://www.flickr.com/photos/foxypar4/2533571894/

In an incident almost as bizarre as the recent adverse weather excuses used by Merseyrail …

A bird dropping a piece of bread onto outdoor machinery has been blamed for a technical fault at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) this week which saw significant overheating in sections of the mighty particle-punisher’s subterranean 27-km supercooled magnetic doughnut. (source)

Thanks to PopSci.com and El Reg for the story.

November 4, 2009

Joke of the day

Filed under: Not Merseyrail — Tags: , , — Chris @ 2:37 pm

A guy is sitting in the bar in departures at a busy airport. A beautiful woman walks in and sits down at the table next to him.

He decides that because she’s got a uniform on, she’s probably an off-duty flight attendant. So he decides to have a go at picking her up by identifying the airline she flies for, thereby impressing her greatly..

He leans across to her and says the Delta Airlines motto “We love to fly and it shows”.

The woman looks at him blankly. (more…)

October 31, 2009

London Underground Staffer looses his cool …

Filed under: Not Merseyrail — Tags: , — Chris @ 12:42 pm

This guy is obviously having a bad hair day …