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With United Airlines recent financial issues, and
yesterdays near accident caused by Canandian
Geese, I suggest United Airlines take on a new
marketing strategy.
Goose-along, Goose-be-gone
Each passenger is presented two Canadian Geese,
when they purchase a ticket to fly anywhere in
Canada.
On arrival in say, hmm Vancouver, the passengers
disembark with their new pals, and voila. A two
birds with one stone sort of solution is found.
United gets passengers and money, and the United
States gets rid of the problem of too many geese
near the airports.
I think.
Fly United
http://www.dking-ga...AD_70FlyUnited.html
Classic Poster (slightly risque') [csea, Jan 17 2009]
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Does George W. still have time to declare war on geese? |
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Not sure, but he's up to his eyeballs in goose shit, I know that! |
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Were these geese really near the airport, or just near the Hudson River? Anyway, I'm officially starting the Save The Geese campaign. I love Canada Geese and I don't want to see the whole NY population slaughtered. + |
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I don't understand phundug, love the geese and glad the people on the plane had such a wonderful escape. |
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[+] any promotion that includes complementary geese. |
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link [rcarty] ? of course we care. |
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The Canadian goose neighbor of mine (lives here
in my pond)(erm.. his pond) is a
loud mouthed-bossy bird brain. If he were aboard
any comcial flight, he would be making those flight
attendants 'Really move their Tail' for him. And if
anyone-old, young, male, or otherwise, even looks
( takes a gander at) at Mr. McQuacks
sweetheart...well, so far I've escaped serious
injury. And I'm not even emotionally invilved with
his SO. |
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Note that the emergency landing in the Hudson River was a US Airways flight, not a United Airlines flight. |
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I wonder if any terrorist organisation has considered rearing
new-hatched geese in such a way that all their food and
warmth comes from a large circular fan which makes a loud
whining noise? |
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Saves them from having to make that long migration, too. |
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\\ terrorist organisation has considered \\ |
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If not already ... They may now. Perish the
thought!!! A Gosling's mama, the air bus. |
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//If he were aboard any comcial flight//
Sp. "comical". |
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I'm not sure that crash landing an airliner full of passengers in the middle of a river is the type of thing most people would classify as a near accident. |
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in the freezing cold and lots of river traffic. |
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what if you have sworn to never again engage in the transportation of poultry for any purpose? |
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My experiments with adaptive magnetic feild implants allows me to direct the movements of entire flocks by influencing only the Alpha goose in each V. |
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My minions of minimum destruction will soon be unleashing their payloads upon Humvee drivers across North America. |
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I appologise for any inconvieniences this may cause as the last of the bugs are worked out. |
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Not that I want to diminish the occasion, but surely, since aero engines are currently tested with 'chicken launchers' for safety before they go ner a plane, should the testing be upgraded for 'the larger bird'? |
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We have Canada Geese over her in the UK. They're common as muck in England, but when my Grandad was up in Scotland watching an osprey, the keeper at the park was quite impressed that they had 'a pair' of canada geese. |
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Nice one to the pilot, but hopefully the other geese will learn from their brethren's mistakes. |
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/I know the Canada Goose doesn't fly as high as the Asian Bar-Headed Goose/ |
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//Note that the emergency landing in the Hudson River was a US Airways flight, not a United Airlines flight.// |
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A United 767 had a double bird strike in 2007. One engine kept running, fortunately. And two years before, the same flight ran into a flock of birds and had to return. United flight 843 from Chicago to Sao Paulo--you might want to avoid it. |
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No no no if you do this, there will be more geese at airports, not less. They will evolve to lose their ability to fly, grow dependent upon the airlines, demand cheap tickets and mileage compensation for all of those years that they flew themselves back and forth to South America, make a terrible mess of drug trafficking control, as well as reduce a classic Monty Python sketch on the origin of northern coconuts to the size of a swallow's onboard carryon. |
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Well, they are Canadian, after all. Sounds like an average day in Kapuskasing. |
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jutta, noted. But United is tanking, and the extra revenue from "Goose Saving Organizations" just might be their ticket, hahaha, out. |
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I figured each extra unexpected flight north would help. |
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(And yes I call it a "near accident", when it didn't end up in a full fuel flight flattening forty square miles of New York. It's all in your perspective, I reckon ;-) ) |
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//a full fuel flight flattening forty square miles of New York// |
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As blissmiss points out, that's what this one *didn't* do (that is, crash into an office building, similar to what happened during the 9/11 attacks.) |
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a miracle on one of your great streets... |
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That would be cubic miles, then? |
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gotta love the "random" button. |
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It would be funnier if you pressed the random button and it gave you a goose. |
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It would certainly be very random. As for funny... The
sudden and unexpected arrival of a goose while I'm using a
computer doesn't strike me as something I'd laugh about,
expecially if the goose had no prior warning either. |
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I might laugh if it happened to somebody else, but I would
laugh while fetching a shotgun and a first aid kit. |
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A well thought out environmentally conscious idea that would be especially popular on the Toronto<>Florida run (and even more popular amongst the golf-course owners in between). |
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More like goose be dinner. I never kill something unless I
intend to eat it. I also try to wear and/or sleep on what's
left over, if possible. |
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They could be force-fed airline meals (gavage), thereby saving the poor passengers the ordeal, and producing delicious foie gras into the bargain.
Everyone wins (except the geese) |
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What happens when the TSA staff, umm, "goose" the
geese? |
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Feathers would fly, I fear |
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