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John K. Rochester
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posted 04-13-2005 09:37 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for John K. Rochester   Click Here to Email John K. Rochester     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Top Ten Other Things To Say When Stepping On The Moon


10. "Set your phasers for 'fun' -- the Buzzmeister has landed!"

9. "Jeez, what a dump!"

8. "That's one small step for man, once giant leap for my sock puppet Winky."

7. "I think I can see Ebert from here."

6. "Hey, Linda McGinty of Montclair High School -- remember when you wouldn't go out with me? Well, look at me now -- I'm on the moon!"

5. "I'd like to give a shout out to all my homies on the planet Earth."

4. "Visa -- it's everywhere you want to be! I just made 5 million bucks."

3. "Does this mean I have to miss the Smashing Pumpkins on 53rd Street?"

2. "Holy Crap!"

1. "Okay, I stepped on it -- now let's get the hell outta here."

Any more you can come up with?

Capcom1
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posted 04-13-2005 10:45 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Capcom1   Click Here to Email Capcom1     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I like the one from FTETTM (I forgot who said it, maybe Collins to Neil and Buzz)

"If you had any guts you'd yell 'What the hell is THAT?' then cut your mike.."

I LOVE that one, but then again, gallows humor is my thing...

MoonMan Jeff
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posted 04-13-2005 10:51 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for MoonMan Jeff     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
"Which way are the restrooms?"

"How far to the nearest gas station?"

"OK, I'm out. Can I take my spacesuit off now!"

"I came 240,000 miles through radiation belts and freezing outer space and now you tell me there are no jacuzzis ???"

"Hey Houston.... I SPECIFICALLY said I wanted a planet with TREES !!! "

"Hey Buzz... I'm gonna pull down my pants and moon the Earth !!"

Duke Of URL
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posted 04-13-2005 12:10 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Duke Of URL   Click Here to Email Duke Of URL     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Didn't Buzz Aldrin say something along the lines of "Neil may have been the first man to walk on the moon but I'm the first man to take a leak there!"??

I'm serious. I heard this someplace. I might have been a few sheets to the wind, but I heard it.

Blackarrow
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posted 04-13-2005 04:16 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Blackarrow     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
It's true. I heard it. I have it on video (British Interplanetary Society 60th anniversary dinner, Hastings, England, October 1993.

Rob Joyner
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posted 04-13-2005 06:55 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Rob Joyner   Click Here to Email Rob Joyner     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
10. "Whew! Anybody else smell cheese?!"

9. "Michael Jackson! You got NOTHIN'
on me!"

8. "Wait a minute! This isn't the
Sea of Frigoris!"

7. "Yeeew! It feels squishy!!!"

6. "Look! Oprah's vacationing in Jamaica!"

5. "Whoa! Look at that big, black,
monolithic thing over there!"

4. "What the...?! The dark side is just
one big party! Wooo Hooo!!!"

3. "Wow! I can see Uranus from here!"

2. "Aaah! That's better! Thank goodness
for Gold Bond, the only medicated
powder I'd take to the Moon!"

1. "Uhh...Hello, Mr. Lucas, Mr. Spielberg."

gliderpilotuk
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posted 04-14-2005 03:34 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for gliderpilotuk   Click Here to Email gliderpilotuk     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
"What's that obelisk? My God, it's full of stars" <2001 A Space Odyssey>

Paul

Glint
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posted 04-14-2005 02:22 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Glint   Click Here to Email Glint     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
quote:
Originally posted by gliderpilotuk:
"What's that obelisk? My God, it's full of stars" <2001 A Space Odyssey>

Paul


Obelisk? In 2001: A Space Odyssey? It looked more like a monolinth. With dimension ratios 1x4x9 (1, 2, and 3 squared) to be exact.

gliderpilotuk
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posted 04-14-2005 03:57 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for gliderpilotuk   Click Here to Email gliderpilotuk     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
"MonoliNth"?

Maybe I'll concede "monolith" <ROFL>

Paul

star61
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posted 04-15-2005 07:09 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for star61   Click Here to Email star61     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
"Wow!...they are never going to believe this back home"

Phil

spaceheaded
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posted 04-15-2005 09:29 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for spaceheaded     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

"It can't be that bad, Mrs. Gorskey!"

RandyH
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posted 05-16-2005 05:00 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for RandyH     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I will always fondly remember the humor newspaper 'The Onion' addressing this subject... (warning, adult language ahead)
http://www.members.shaw.ca/rlongpre01/moon.html

Rob Joyner
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posted 05-16-2005 10:03 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Rob Joyner   Click Here to Email Rob Joyner     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
That is very funny!!! But considering that 'less is more', it would have been MUCH more funny if the author(s) had cut back on the 'adjectives' a little!

Capcom1
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posted 05-17-2005 10:01 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Capcom1   Click Here to Email Capcom1     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
The Onion is the absolute best.
Sounds like how my mission might have gone if I was 16...

DavidH
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posted 05-17-2005 10:15 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for DavidH   Click Here to Email DavidH     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
Someone put together a video clip based on that Onion story.
But, as with the Onion story, note that there are lots of "adjectives" and you probably don't want to play it where anyone else can hear.
http://www.blogjam.com/neil_armstrong/

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"America's challenge of today has forged man's destiny of tomorrow." - Commander Eugene Cernan, Apollo 17 Mission, 11 December 1972

Duke Of URL
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posted 05-17-2005 12:25 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Duke Of URL   Click Here to Email Duke Of URL     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
I used to have a poster of an astronaut's boot stepping off a LM onto some dog poop.

spaceheaded
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posted 05-17-2005 06:32 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for spaceheaded     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote

In the early 70's I had a friend who had a poster with the picture of Aldrin on the moon and a giant caption: "SO WHAT?"

A least the creators of that poster imply they accepted as fact that we acually went there.

Bill

Jake
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posted 05-18-2005 02:39 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for Jake   Click Here to Email Jake     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
In no particular order....

1) Damn, no women, wasted trip...!

2) I thought YOU brought the return fuel...

3) With this helmet on eveything looks grey...

4) What is Alexei doing here...?

5) We landed in a sea, doesn't Grumman make canoes...?

6) Hey Mike, come on out! (sorry Buzz - just a joke)

7) The LEM footpads are only depressed in the surface about six feet...

8) Pete might have some trouble with that last step...

9) Can you get Nixon on the Phone...?

10) I better say something cool, folks years from now will quote me on a thing called collectSPACE.com

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Jake Schultz - curator,
Newport Way Air Museum (OK, it's just my home)

collshubby
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posted 05-18-2005 03:03 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for collshubby   Click Here to Email collshubby     Edit/Delete Message   Reply w/Quote
1.) "Greetings, Comrades!" (in Russian accent)

2.) "You're right, Buzz. This is an excellent vantage point to watch the asteroid strike."

3.) "Hey, what's a Coke bottle doing out here?"

4.) "Help! I'm sinking!"

5.) "Um...I think I left the keys to the rover back at the Cape."

6.) "Look! No helmet!"

7.) "I'm too scared to go out! And you can't make me!"

8.) "What's that smell?"

9.)"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!"

10.) Hum the theme to 2001

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astronautbrian@hotmail.com

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