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A comment on SR-71 Blackbird's ground speed check story.

Re:SR-71 Blackbird's ground speed check story by mech422 on Monday January 11, 2021 @01:51PM (#25734078)
This story is older then I am, but I upvote it every time cuz I think its just hilarious :-)
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Re:SR-71 Blackbird's ground speed check story by blakesterz on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:30PM (#25734923)
Right, me too. It's like The case of the 500-mile email, it just never gets old.

https://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html

"We can't send mail more than 500 miles," the chairman explained...

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Re:SR-71 Blackbird's ground speed check story by mech422 on Monday January 11, 2021 @02:38PM (#25735090)
oh yeah...

Maybe we should bring out the BOFH files too...

The world could probably use a good chuckle right now :-D

edit: submitted the BOFH archives:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25735221

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Re:SR-71 Blackbird's ground speed check story by m463 on Monday January 11, 2021 @03:54PM (#25736706)
- the story of mel

http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html

- "Not just any wire but a 230 KV, many-hundred-amp, 10 mile long coax cable"

https://archive.org/stream/engineering-pornography-this-is-o...

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Re:SR-71 Blackbird's ground speed check story by b06tmm on Monday January 11, 2021 @05:35PM (#25738563)
I loved, loved, loved the BOFH! At some point The Register changed the format of the site and I haven't browsed it since then.

Thank you!

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