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By silicon.com staff on 13 April 2007 11:53
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1. John Ray
Simonyi demonstrates similar gravitas to office products.
2. Lance Mitchell
Just one person per luggage rack please!
3. Simon Jump
Are you sure that hatch will open before I hit it......
4. Katie Gaines
Auditions get underway for Lionel Ritchie's new talent competition
5. David Caddick
Ryanair try new seatless plane to double capacity and speed up turnround
6. anonymous
It was generally agreed that the auditions for Superman VI were massively oversubscribed.
7. Barry Lewington
Ladies & Gentlemen, The captain and crew would ask you to take your seats and fasten your seatbelts as we are experiencing some 'minor' tuberlauance !!
8. Andy Goodair
Airlines experiment with new technique for optimising passenger volumes.
9. Rob Pendragon
Charles had already passed the zero-personality training with flying colours
10. anonymous
In flight maintenance...the bloke at the bottom is saying "you just twist this little knob here and they go twice as fast"
11. Valérie Ganne
Hey, it's just like the Microsoft office here - no atmosphere at all
12. Rob Pendragon
Charles' colleagues were just about to find out what would happen if you were sick in zero gravity
13. anonymous
... and being hoisted into the air by one's genitals is part of the standard training for all space travellers is it?
14. Valérie Ganne
Richard Branson had also applied for the space trip, but, due to an administrative error, was being trained in zero-gravy
15. Henning
Wow! This almost makes me feel like Cristiano Ronaldo!
16. Steve Lay
illegal operation, windows will now close this application.
17. Craig Mitchell
Weight watchers take their new advertising material to new heights
18. Richard Gianella
Kwik-Fit engineers to be amongst the first space tourists.
19. anonymous
So that's how many spacemen it takes to screw in a lightbulb!
20. anonymous
MySpace is better than yours!
21. anonymous
After spending all that money on the space trip, Simonyi found he only had enough left for a shellsuit and some old battered trainers to wear.
22. Steve Lay
Never mind the Caber, tossing the geek is much more fun!!!
23. Emma W
This is what happens when the RAF still uses NT 4.0!
24. kenneth wilkinson
"Guess who `never` had baked beans for lunch."
25. Stuart Fawcett
Technology sets you free, just hope you don’t need to reboot this week!
26. Brian Milnes
Maharishi's Yogic Flyers, though resorting to less traditional methods, are delighted to find they can "fly" longer than their more usual "bottom bumps"...
27. Andrew Mills
Look Mum, no hands!
28. anonymous
Thunderbirds are go!
29. Andrew Mills
My " Word" what a wonderful "Vista" from up here, its "Excel"ent........
30. Rob Pendragon
I just wish the pilot would put the brakes on a bit more gently
31. Valérie Ganne
I think I may have misinterpreted the term re-entry since watching Brokeback Mountain
32. Alex Worrell
Charles Simonyi: When I said I wanted to float my new company...
33. anonymous
Six space tourists to be bodily flung into space by three Russian supermen.
34. Mark George
Microsft....a People Floating Business!
35. Amy Holtz
So that's where they're putting them...
36. anonymous
Dwarf throwing to be included in the London Olympics
37. Simon Perry
Is your IT project late again? Just throw more developers at it.
38. anonymous
I thought this trip was chance to get away from them all ...
Oh, nearly forgot, when do I vomit?