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mech422
This story is older then I am, but I upvote it every time cuz I think its just hilarious :-)
blakesterz
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...

mech422
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

b06tmm
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!

sampo
This and other stories are in a book Sled Driver by Brian Shul. You can easily find copies around in the web.
schmookeeg
My favorite "snarky summary" of this every time it gets posted to reddit aviation is:

Cessna: How fast

Tower: 6

Beechcraft: How fast

Tower: 8

Hornet: Yo how fast bro

Tower: Eh, 30

Sled: >mfw

Sled: How fast sir

Tower: Like 9000

Sled: More like 9001 amirite

Tower: ayyyyy

Sled: ayyyyy

elliottlan
Is it just me or is this version heavily redacted while destroying the punchline by pasting it in bold at the top?

Or is this version heavily embellished: https://www.reddit.com/r/SR71/comments/2dpmw7/the_sr71_speed...

schmookeeg
Not just you. No idea why Dario needed to edit the original down.

Your reddit link is the one I think of as the canonical, but I've never bought Shul's book, so couldn't say with certainty. :)

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