37 years ago today, Neil Armstrong walked on the moon (if it wasn't faked--see All this is that) maybe found a skeleton wearing jeans , and may have helped MNr. Gorsky enjoy oral sex
When Apollo Astronaut Neil Armstrong first stepped onto the moon, he made his famous "One small step for man; one giant leap for mankind" statement, and followed it by several remarks, including the usual COM chatter between other astronauts and Mission Control. Before he re-entered the lander, he made the remark "Good luck, Mr. Gorsky."
People at NASA thought it was a casual remark about a rival Soviet Cosmonaut. However, there was no Gorsky in the Russian space program.
In Tampa Bay, FL, while answering questions following a speech, a reporter brought up the 26- year-old question to Armstrong. He finally responded. It seems that Mr. Gorsky had died and so Armstrong felt he could finally answer the question.
When he was a kid, Neil was playing baseball with his brother in the backyard. His brother hit a fly ball which landed in front of his neighbors' bedroom window. The neighbors were Mr. and Mrs. Gorksy. As he leaned down to pick up the ball, he heard Mrs. Gorsky shouting at Mr. Gorsky, "Oral sex? Oral sex you want? You'll get oral sex when the kid next door walks on the moon!"
This legend began racing around the Internet in the 90's and was picked up by the media. The inclusion of specific details (e.g., the name of Armstrong's neighbor, the date of the press conference on which he revealed the meaning of his remark) apparently led some to believe the story was true.
It has obviously been debunked and discredited numerous times (see http://snopes.com) , by Armstrong and others (Mr. or Mrs. Gorsky have never come forward!)but, hey, it's such a good story that it bears repeating... /jack
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Thursday, July 20, 2006
Drawing: The lost ones - Pt. 12, the willies
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"I get so self-conscious, I have to hide. I actually don't hide, I just never appear. It's something like agoraphobia magnified by a potentiation factor and exacerbated by the willies."
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Drawing: The lost ones - Pt. 11, mystical vibrations
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"If I stare at the walls, it's not long before the walls stare back and the walls start closing in and the walls start to undulate and mysticall vibrations come through and I start feeling the pulse of everyone who'd ever been in the room. . ."
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Drawing: The lost ones - Pt. 10, I scare myself
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"Everything that breathes, everything that swims, crawls, creeps, flies, oozes, wiggles, or hobbles, scares me. I am afraid of anything that grows or can be harvested. I am scared of the rocks, mountains, streams, and oceans. I scare myself."
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Drawing: The lost ones - Pt. 9, a reason to believe
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"You have to have something. You need a reason to believe; I'm still looking for mine."
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Wednesday, July 19, 2006
President Bush, remembering images of her tush, makes a move on the German Chancellor
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What kind of a hopeless bonehead is Our President? There appears to be a tempest in a teapot
controversy over POTUS's "massage" of German Chancellor Merkel. Was it an unwelcome advance? The Los AngelesTimes initially reported that the Chancellor was smiling during the Presidential assault. As the photomontage below shows, her reaction was anything but welcoming. The President then moved on to his next luckless victim.This is not the first time the German Chancellor has been engaged in a silly controversy--see All This Is That on April 20th, this year. Or note this clandestine photo (If we have to see a world leader's bum, I'd prefer hers, to say, Dick Cheney's).
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Drawing: The Lost Ones, Part 8
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"I'm an upstanding community member. I'm a deacon in the first Baptist Church. But I lost my faith ten years ago, when my wife dumped me for a 22 year old heir. I lost my faith in the church, in humans, and, most of all, in myself."
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Drawing: The Lost Ones, Part 7, the bucket of tar
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"My heart is like a big bucket of cold tar. I feel nothing. I am indifferent to every person I meet. I don't believe in anyone or anything. I don't believe in me."
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Drawing: The Lost Ones, Pt. 6
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"After Desert storm, nothing ever seemed to work right. About half the puzzle pieces were missing. I tried out this, I did that. I went here, I went there. And all the king's horse's and all the kings men could not put me back together again. I was never despondent, but I could never feel again."
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Drawing: The Lost Ones - Pt. 5, The Grey Alien Abductee
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"I was abducted on April 23, 2002. I remember nothing from the moment I was taken until I came to at 3:19 a.m. I'm prety sure I am a "throwback" -- I show no sign of implants. *sigh* I don't even fit in with the greys."
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Tuesday, July 18, 2006
I'm a yellow dog Democrat
A Yellow Dog Democrat is a hard-core Democratic loyalist. The term, Yellow Dog Democrat was coined during the 1928 elections, when Al Smith ran for President against Herbert Hoover.
Senator Tom Heflin, of Alabama refused to back his fellow Democrat, Al Smith the Governor of NY. Not only that, but he also decided to support Herbert Hoover (who went on to become President). Heflin was considered a traitor, especially in the South. Huge numbers of Alabamans disagreed with Senator Heflin's decision to cross his party lines and the saying, "I'd vote for a yellow dog if he ran on the Democratic ticket" was born.
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Drawing: The lost ones - Pt. 4
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"I've been stealing money from the company for five years. I keep it covered up in a sort of revolving shell game. But the auditors are here next week and I don't know what to do. In one more week, I could hide it, but I've run out of time. I don't have enough to run away. I don't know whether to confess or end it all."
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