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Topic: The Onion: Neil Armstrong's "Space Hobby Crap"
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ilbasso
Member Posts: 1522
From: Greensboro, NC USA
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 09-27-2012 01:36 PM
   
Hilarious article in The Onion!!! Carol Held Knight told reporters on Wednesday that, though she was still mourning her husband Neil Armstrong's death, it was frankly a relief to finally be able to clear out all the "space hobby crap" her late husband kept lying around the house. "I loved my husband very much, but, honestly, what am I supposed to do with a pile of useless rocks, a moon man figurine of some kind, and a stack of journals he wrote about space in?" Come on, guys — if we can't laugh at this one, who can? |
randy
Member Posts: 2176
From: West Jordan, Utah USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 09-27-2012 01:59 PM
I wish she'd send it all to me! I'd even pay for shipping! |
p51
Member Posts: 1642
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 09-27-2012 04:02 PM
Hilarious, that's great satire.Sadly, though, plenty of people would have really thought it was just 'space crap' for real... |
englau
Member Posts: 110
From: tampa, florida, usa
Registered: Mar 2012
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posted 09-27-2012 09:03 PM
hah!Knight confirmed she planned on giving the spacesuit Armstrong wore on the moon to a thrift store, noting that “it doesn’t fit [her].” |
spaceman1953
Member Posts: 953
From: South Bend, IN
Registered: Apr 2002
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posted 09-27-2012 09:51 PM
I gotta tell my sister about this! She's gonna flippin' love it!Ever since I showed her my new wallet one Christmas years ago, and she say my photo-snapshot of the Apollo 11 crew I took at Oshkosh — but NONE of the family! — she has never let me forget! "Throw that crap away! Nobody is going to want it!" |
GoesTo11
Member Posts: 1309
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 09-27-2012 10:04 PM
The Onion is still responsible for my favorite Apollo 11 front page... (SERIOUS LANGUAGE WARNING) |
moorouge
Member Posts: 2454
From: U.K.
Registered: Jul 2009
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posted 09-28-2012 02:23 AM
quote:
Originally posted by englau:
Knight confirmed she planned on giving the spacesuit Armstrong wore on the moon to a thrift store, noting that “it doesn’t fit [her].”
Isn't the Armstrong 'moon suit' the property of the Smithsonian and on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington? |
uk spacefan
Member Posts: 168
From: London
Registered: Jan 2007
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posted 09-28-2012 02:33 AM
I nearly believed it for a minute ....very clever! 
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gliderpilotuk
Member Posts: 3398
From: London, UK
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 09-28-2012 03:44 AM
quote:
Originally posted by GoesTo11:
The Onion is still responsible for my favorite Apollo 11 front page...
Aside from the "f" words that's hilarious. What would a signed copy have been worth? I love the "We can put a man on the moon but...". True irony. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 42981
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-28-2012 07:58 AM
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Originally posted by moorouge:
Isn't the Armstrong 'moon suit' the property of the Smithsonian and on display at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington?
The Onion is satire and parody. But yes, the suit belongs to the Smithsonian (it hasn't been on display though since 2001 and is not slated to return to display until 2017). |
YankeeClipper
Member Posts: 617
From: Dublin, Ireland
Registered: Mar 2011
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posted 09-28-2012 06:45 PM
quote:
Originally posted by GoesTo11:
The Onion is still responsible for my favorite Apollo 11 front page.
Geez that was so funny I nearly wet myself laughing!!  Thanks for the post - that just made my week. |
GoesTo11
Member Posts: 1309
From: Denver, CO
Registered: Jun 2004
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posted 09-28-2012 08:43 PM
I had that framed on my dorm room wall in college, and it made everyone who saw it laugh...even friends and random visitors who couldn't have cared less about space or Neil Armstrong.There's just something hilariously whimsical about imagining Neil and Buzz bounding around on the surface of the Moon, punching the "air" and swearing and whooping like 99.9999% of the rest of us would have done if we were in their boots. Of course, that difference is a not-insignificant part of why they actually got the job and we didn't... but that contrast is what makes the notion so funny. |
cspg
Member Posts: 6210
From: Geneva, Switzerland
Registered: May 2006
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posted 09-29-2012 04:19 AM
I prefer the headline on the right down hand corner, though. |
Murph
Member Posts: 108
From: New York, NY USA
Registered: Jan 2005
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posted 09-29-2012 10:33 AM
Its also on YouTube, very funny! NSFW! |
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