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Topic: Apocryphal Crews
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Duke Of URL
Member Posts: 1316
From: Syracuse, NY
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 07-22-2005 11:05 PM
   
Suppose Deke Slayton got hit by a high-speed bus, and while he was recovering you had ABSOLUTE DISCRETION over crew selection. Deke is fine, but laid up, but when he comes back in 6 months your choices are set in stone.(And I know there's another thread "Deke For A Day" but this is about non-astronaut crews and made-up stuff) Personally, I was a hippie. Not a beads-and-flowers hippie, but a wiseguy hippie. Of course, I was up to the usual counterculture meshugas. Under the influence of same I'd send a crew with Lee Marvin(CDR), Dick Butkus (CMP) and Slim Pickens (LMP). Their backups would be Bruno Sammartino, Bob Cousey and Jack Nicholson. [This message has been edited by Duke Of URL (edited July 23, 2005).] |
katabatic
Member Posts: 72
From: Oak Hill, VA, USA
Registered: Jun 2005
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posted 07-23-2005 09:33 AM
I assume I can have the Way-Back Machine correct their ages:CDR: Charles Lindbergh
LMP: Carl Sagan (who else?)
CMP: Ernest Shackleton (he'd get them home no matter what) backup crew:
CDR: Orville Wright (that'd be a hoot)
LMP: Richard Leakey (just in case there might be a fossil record near the surface)
CMP: Me, of course... BTW, your backup crew REALLY needs Gorilla Monsoon and Klondike Bill.... [This message has been edited by katabatic (edited July 23, 2005).] [This message has been edited by katabatic (edited July 23, 2005).] |
Duke Of URL
Member Posts: 1316
From: Syracuse, NY
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 07-23-2005 09:54 AM
quote:
Originally posted by katabatic:
BTW, your backup crew REALLY needs Gorilla Monsoon and Klondike Bill....
I think Marlon Brando would make a great CDR. How about Bluto (CDR), Lou "The Toe" Groza (CMP) and Little Richard (LMP)? |
spaced out
Member Posts: 3117
From: Paris, France
Registered: Aug 2003
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posted 07-23-2005 10:00 AM
CDR: William Shatner (as an ambassador of mankind in case the moon turned out to be inhabited by physically prepossesing scantily-clad young ladies)
LMP: Michael Palin (ex-Python and now travel documentary specialist)
CMP: James Doohan (I cannae get you there any faster Bill!)Sorry for the Canadian-British crew.  Oh-yeah backup crew: James Brolin, Sam Waterston and O.J. Simpson.  [This message has been edited by spaced out (edited July 23, 2005).] |
Duke Of URL
Member Posts: 1316
From: Syracuse, NY
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 07-23-2005 10:54 AM
quote:
Originally posted by spaced out:
[B]CDR:
Oh-yeah backup crew: James Brolin, Sam Waterston and O.J. Simpson.
B]
I have a copy of the DVD autographed by Waterston. Try these: All Oklahoma crew of Cooper, Stafford and Mickey Mantle.
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BMckay
Member Posts: 3267
From: MA, USA
Registered: Sep 2002
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posted 07-23-2005 10:59 AM
Remember you have weight limits!Crew Moe, Larry, and Curley- no Shemp or Joe Picture them going to the moon... |
Duke Of URL
Member Posts: 1316
From: Syracuse, NY
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 07-23-2005 11:01 AM
Groucho (CDR) and Margaret Dumont (LMP) - no CMP.[This message has been edited by Duke Of URL (edited July 23, 2005).] |
FFrench
Member Posts: 3165
From: San Diego
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 07-23-2005 02:35 PM
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Originally posted by BMckay:
Moe, Larry, and Curley- no Shemp or Joe
Picture them going to the moon...
We can go one better - they flew all the way to Mars once!
http://www.movie-poster.ws/movies/wallpaper/comedy/three_stooges/stooges_orbit2.jpg
Nyuk Nyuk!
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ColinBurgess
Member Posts: 2043
From: Sydney, Australia
Registered: Sep 2003
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posted 07-23-2005 07:09 PM
Hey Duke - fun thread! I looked at your nomination of Marlon Brando, and thought what a great Gemini crew he and Tom Stafford would have made. Imagine the person tasked with trying to transcribe the mission dialogue!! ("What the HELL did he say? And what the heck did HE say?")
Colin |
Duke Of URL
Member Posts: 1316
From: Syracuse, NY
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 07-23-2005 07:09 PM
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Originally posted by FFrench:
We can go one better - they flew all the way to Mars once! Nyuk Nyuk!
So much for intelligent life on Mars, huh? |
Moonpaws
Member Posts: 685
From: Lee's summit, MO
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 07-23-2005 07:25 PM
How about:President Bush as CDR-so no one has to talk to the president, he can talk to himself. Simon Cowl LMP-so he can say "That was
the most dreadful landing I have ever seen". Snoop dog CMP-because snoopy has already been, and we need some rap around the dark side. |
Duke Of URL
Member Posts: 1316
From: Syracuse, NY
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 07-23-2005 11:32 PM
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Originally posted by ColinBurgess:
Hey Duke - fun thread! I looked at your nomination of Marlon Brando, and thought what a great Gemini crew he and Tom Stafford would have made. Imagine the person tasked with trying to transcribe the mission dialogue!! ("What the HELL did he say? And what the heck did HE say?")
Colin
This from an Austrailian?? Yogi Berra (CDR), Norm Crosby (CMP) and the Agricultural Agent from Green Acres (LMP) with GABBY JOHNSON (Blazing Saddles) Capcom,you dad-burn horn-swogglin', sidewindin' ribber-rabber. [This message has been edited by Duke Of URL (edited July 23, 2005).] |
Rob Joyner
Member Posts: 1308
From: GA, USA
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 07-24-2005 01:48 AM
I think a lot of people would show up for this launch...CDR: Oprah Winfrey
LMP: Dr. Phil
CMP: Martha Stewart And have David Letterman announce at lift off...
"Well, there ya go, kids! Ahhhhh, Godspeed, and uhhhh, good riddance!!! Hee, Hee!"
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WAWalsh
Member Posts: 809
From: Cortlandt Manor, NY
Registered: May 2000
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posted 07-24-2005 09:08 PM
Why not make it a selection of people from the 60s with actual flight experienceCDR -- Barry Goldwater
CMP -- Ted Williams
LMP -- James Stewart |
Duke Of URL
Member Posts: 1316
From: Syracuse, NY
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 07-24-2005 10:42 PM
Barry Goldwater was from the Sixties, OK. Only they were the EIGHTEEN Sixties.
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Rodina
Member Posts: 836
From: Lafayette, CA
Registered: Oct 2001
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posted 07-25-2005 06:08 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Duke Of URL:
Barry Goldwater was from the Sixties, OK. Only they were the EIGHTEEN Sixties.
As my Dad likes to say, "I was told if I voted for Barry Goldwater, we'd be at war in six months. I did. And we were."
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carmelo
Member Posts: 1051
From: Messina, Sicilia, Italia
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 07-25-2005 07:12 PM
Barry Goldwater?! Please no! The old ,good Nelson Rockefeller.What a great President would have been.An Repubblican-Liberal.Fabulous!!  |
Machodoc
Member Posts: 207
From: DE
Registered: Aug 2005
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posted 08-20-2005 04:37 PM
Duke,Hank Kimball was the extension agent for Hooterville. Steve |
Duke Of URL
Member Posts: 1316
From: Syracuse, NY
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 08-20-2005 05:11 PM
quote:
Originally posted by Machodoc:
Duke,Hank Kimball was the extension agent for Hooterville. Steve
Well, he wasn't EXACTLY the extension agent. He was more like an advisor. Actually, it was more as if he was looking over your shoulder. Not your shoulder so much as the back of your neck. Well, maybe not your neck....... (Does anyone remember him from "The Wild One"?) [This message has been edited by Duke Of URL (edited August 22, 2005).] |
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