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March 7, 2009 7:24 a.m. SVreX SuperDork

Stolen, but good (and true):

You are a South African bush pilot

working for Blue Sky Aviation.

You fly in some critical medical supplies,

enjoy a quick lunch at the hospital.

It's a stifling 100 degrees in the shade and

you're eager to get back aloft to the cooler upper atmosphere.

On the way back to your aircraft,

you discover that the only bit of shade within 1 mile

has become very popular.

You start estimating the distance to the aircraft door and wonder....

'Do I feel lucky today?'
March 7, 2009 7:51 a.m. pete240z HalfDork

my eyes cannot see the postage stamp picture, so i can only guess the punch line....
March 7, 2009 8:11 a.m. EastCoastMojo Dork

The name of the picture is "lions under aircraft". Oh my.
March 7, 2009 8:35 a.m. rebelgtp Dork

so we can see
March 7, 2009 10:53 a.m. mel_horn HalfDork

No door or hatch on the other side of the aircraft?
March 7, 2009 1:20 p.m. poopshovel SuperDork

shotgun.
March 7, 2009 2:33 p.m. cxhb New Reader

rocks. im not sure who would have the balls though...
March 7, 2009 2:35 p.m. EastCoastMojo Dork

Chances are they're all too hot to give chase anyway.
March 7, 2009 2:38 p.m. rebelgtp Dork

its in a situation like this that you call this kid...
March 7, 2009 7:02 p.m. gamby SuperDork

The airline name was later changed to "Holy berkeleying E36 M3 Aviation"

They look so happy.
March 7, 2009 10:02 p.m. atlantamx3 Dork

African AirLions.
March 8, 2009 8:22 a.m. SVreX SuperDork

Thanks for posting the pic, rebelgtp. I didn't have much time to do it right when I did it, and was hoping one of you would cover for me.
March 8, 2009 10:23 a.m. rebelgtp Dork

I've seen the pic before so even in its diminished size I recognized the "Oh E36 M3 " moment and knew google would serve me well in finding a larger copy lol.

As someone mentioned well what about the other side, you would more then likely get over there and find more of them lol.
March 8, 2009 12:01 p.m. Hal HalfDork

rebelgtp wrote: As someone mentioned well what about the other side, you would more then likely get over there and find more of them lol.

And unless I am seeing things there is one laying underneath the plane between the wheels.
March 8, 2009 3:49 p.m. Appleseed Reader

They're trained guard lions. Without them, that plane would be on blocks.
March 8, 2009 4:46 p.m. rebelgtp Dork

Hal wrote:

And unless I am seeing things there is one laying underneath the plane between the wheels.

By golly you are right! I had never noticed that one before!

Actually they would keep the plane from being stripped...or flown away.
March 8, 2009 4:51 p.m. mad_machine SuperDork

so the lions were hiding in plane sight all along?
March 8, 2009 7:58 p.m. confuZion3 Dork

I thought it was a giant furry snake at first. Thanks for the larger picture.
March 8, 2009 9:33 p.m. EastCoastMojo Dork

mad_machine wrote:

so the lions were hiding in plane sight all along?

groan

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