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Originally Posted by Waxing_Gibbous
Oooo! Oooo!
Here is something I actually know for a fact - as opposed to most of the stuff I make-up or confabulate. Neil Armstrong came to our high school in 1973 cuz he is the 2nd cousin 8 times removed of somebody I didn't know and had agreed to give a motivational speech.
Anyway HE said what he meant to say was "one small step for A man, etc etc." But the moment got the better of him.
I can't understand the all the fuss! How many of us would have maintained Armstrong's composure? To be the first human to set foot on another world and remember your lines?
In the film "In the shadow of the moon" Buzz Aldrin recounts that Armstrong was absolutrly the right person to command the mission. Of all of those with the "right stuff" he had the most of all.
I think we should forgive him a missing vowel.
Most people's first words would have been something on the order of: "I'm on the freakin' moon and you can all kiss my #*%"
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Knowing what would happen if it had've been me, I'd have gotten a foot caught in the ladder rungs, twisted it, fell "a over h" and then mentioned about half a dozen expletives on the way down!!!
It would've been the first censored, extraterrestrial live TV broadcast!!!