A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost...

Aug 28, 2017 11:34 AM

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A woman in a hot air balloon realized she was lost. She reduced altitude and spotted a man below. She descended a bit more and shouted: "'Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a friend I would meet him an hour ago but I don't know where I am". The man below replied "You're in a hot air balloon hovering approximately 30 feet above the ground. You're between 40 and 41 degrees north latitude and between 59 and 60 degrees west longitude".

"You must be a technician." said the balloonist. "I am" replied the man "how did you know?" "Well," answered the balloonist, "everything you have told me is probably technically correct, but I've no idea what to make of your information and the fact is, I'm still lost. Frankly, you've not been much help at all. If anything, you've delayed my trip with your talk."

The man below responded, "You must be in management". "I am" replied the balloonist, "but how did you know?" "Well," said the man "you don't know where you are or where you're going. You have risen to where you are, due to a large quantity of hot air. You made a promise, which you've no idea how to keep, and you expect people beneath you to solve your problems. The fact is you are in exactly the same position you were in before we met, but now, somehow, it's my fucking fault!

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8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 1

You must be in sanitation.

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40ºN by 60ºW is in the middle of the Atlantic (due east of Philly, due north of Bermuda). That balloonist's appointment is classified.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I think my aunt forwarded me this email in 1992.

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FW:FW:FW:FW:

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Thanks Aunt Sharon

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and then everybody clapped

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RE:RE:RE:FW:FUNNY!

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Thanks again, grandma.

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Thanks Nan, didn't realise you were on imgur.

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I expected to find out where in the world Carmen Sandiego was. I'm slightly disappointed.

8 years ago | Likes 408 Dislikes 6

Apparently, she's in a balloon

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Nostalgia ftw https://youtu.be/s1EIUP8tvbE

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I wish my CDs hadn't gotten scratched. I suppose I could try pirating, probably nobody cares anymore.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Where. In the world is. Carmen sandiego

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY AT FIVE!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

She's approximately 30 feet above the ground, between 40 and 41 degrees north latitude and between 59 and 60 degrees west longitude.

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o_O

8 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 0

Or, just maybe, their both dicks.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Is that a Vulcan? Am I the only one seeing a Vulcan here?

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Is that woman in the photo a Vulcan?

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Which is why I have my employees identify the problem AND the solution &make no promises to reach said solution, but offer all resources.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Wouldn't it have just been easier to tell her where she was?

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

He did.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

At first glance, I thought she was a Vulcan. I may or may not have watched a lot of Trek lately...

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

There is a 111km distance between 59-60 degrees longitude. His information was almost useless.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This is a shitty version of a shitty joke I tell to the IT people I work with.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

They like me because of it, now they'll think I'm just telling a shitter version of a shit joke found on shit (but beloved) site. I'm sad.

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i loved that ginger bastard.

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The Lannister gives his regards?

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Noticing the top 2 comments usernames

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Benedict?

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*you're. Ah, Brother Numpsie!

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

clearly Benedict from #

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Last Action Hero

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No it's clearly Amanda Bynes' mom

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Moody's !

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

A fair retelling of an old joke. Narrative needs improvement. At no point did she make any promise, so that part of the reply doesn't fit.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

v as someone in upper management, he's not wrong;)

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“I want that picture of Spiderman on my desk by noon!“

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v

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that means you're like the 5% of upper management that actually does the shit the other 95% don't do right?

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Great calculations. You must be a technician.

8 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

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Bees?

8 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

Always upvote bees

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He may be a technician but he is a poor one. That location is in the Atlantic Ocean

8 years ago | Likes 179 Dislikes 3

and no one really has a map with longitude or latitude or uses them

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 6

what do you think why she was lost? wherever she's looking, it's all water...

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

My first thought was, "He must be in a boat."

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Well done

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Not to mention that such coordinates cover an area sized about 85 × 112 km (53 × 70 mi).

8 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 0

He's approximately technically correct

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

The best kind of correct.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I thought this was the story from the Amanda Bynes Show xD

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

I'd rather be dumb and rich with a hot air balloon than smart and poor with jaded experiences.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Then you're part of the problem

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Some say Moody is still searching for her long-lost mother..

8 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

Only real 90s kids will get this

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Does anyone remember the Amanda Show skit with the girl in the air balloon

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Moody's Point!!!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

In fairness any dick that gave someone who said they were lost latitude and longitude coordinates is a smug ass who knows what they're doing

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Must be an old ex GeekSquad tech support guy.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

True

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

It's pretty fun to learn how to read maps, also kinda easy.

8 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 3

In times of smartphone it might be better than most things, only if you give them time to type it in their phone though

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

If you've got a smartphone just turn on your damned GPS. :P

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Ooh shut up with your darned logic. GPS uses way to much battery

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

32%, GPS has been on all day. Also, my phone has been searching for a signal for roughly 4-6 hours today.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I would hope someone alone in a hot air balloon knows what latitude and longitude means.

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 2

Well there aren't many landmarks in the ocean

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Well, there are a lot of landmarks in the ocean. Lots of geologic formations and the like. There aren't a lot of landmarks on the ocean.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

That joke is so old it has Noah's footprints on it.

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But only his footprints, for that is where he carried you.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Think I first read this joke in readers digest about 25 years ago. It was old then too.

8 years ago | Likes 22 Dislikes 1

Wow readers digest! that's the first time i have remembered them for years!

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What's a Noah?

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 2

nothing! what's a Noah with you! wait

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I remember my grandma telling me this joke while I was sitting on shag carpet watching the dukes of hazard.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I've heard this joke in other languages as well just with different actors.That's another level of repost for me.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

*Utnapishtim's footprints

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

If I haven't heard it, it's new to me!

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Also, there's absolutely no need to tell it with a woman in the balloon.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 4

men don't ask for directions

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

ARE YOU SAYING WOMEN CANT BE IN MANAGEMENT? T R I G G E R E D

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Now now, it could only POSSIBLY be as old as the advent of flight.

8 years ago | Likes 56 Dislikes 1

Or those who dreamt of it.

8 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 2

Balloon flight, specifically - let's not pretend this joke is any fresher than the Articles of Confederacy.

8 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 0

Articles of Confederation. You are thinking of that other, "Recent Unpleasantness."

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She didn't say it was his fault, just that he was unhelpful

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and he assumed that he had a map with longitude and latitude which basically no one uses

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if you're in a hot air balloon, you better have a fucking map

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I mean, I'd assume someone using a hot air balloon for travel understands Lat/Long.

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Well...anyone with GPS or navigating the world by air or sea...

8 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 1

If she had a GPS, she'd know where she was.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Only if she also had said map with long/lat, because otherwise GPS gives the same info as the technician in the joke: a bunch of coordinates

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

well the man that said the latitude and longitude is kinda of a ass because people don't memorize all degrees and he could've said the town

8 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Or she can use google map.

8 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

Anyone flying should know Lat/Long... although the tech gave bad info, that spot is in the Atlantic ocean.

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

i mean i would much rather use a map with roads and towns and directions instead of longitude and latitude

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Do you often just fly along roads, then?

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you don't know my life

8 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Yup, hence the questions, although if you navigate flightpaths with roadmaps, you'd be the first I've met, which could be interesting.

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More funny than the post

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Friend?

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this does sound like management. what this manager needs is a directional consultant, that's who translates what techs say to management.

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