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Colonel McClellan put up that wonderful post about the Moon Landing mission back in 1968. And it brought back some memories. First one of the funniest lines I ever heard from a Comedian about it.
"People always ask if we can put a man on the moon, why can't we fix X, Y, or Z. And I tell them: "Because, the people we had working on getting a man on the moon, are not the people designing your X, Y, or Z."
That made me laugh.
On the Christmas Eve when they came out of the dark Zone and we knew they were headed home safely. My Best Friend Eddie (RIP) even made my Dad laugh with his quip. And my Dad never laughed. Just smiled. But when Eddie said:
"Well, if I am at a Party with Neil...I guess nobody will want to hear my story of getting my drivers license on the first try." He said it so deadpan ...it cracked us all up. What story could possibly top walking on the Moon?"
I already posted in the comment section on that post about what my friend from South America said: " You F*ckin Americans don't know what is impossible." And I like that about us.
My little brother had only one question.
"Don't suppose they peed on the moon did they?"
There was no internet back then...so we all wondered if they just peed in their suits.
And to show how hard it is to scale up once you show something was possible. We all thought that there would be a Marriot on the Moon by the year 2000. After all, my Dad saw his first car ride in 1915 (a model T) and now he had just watched a guy walk on the Moon.
We all thought the future was headed the way of the Jetson's Cartoon. Little did we know what was coming that would change our personal lives forever. And those things happened right here on Earth.
"People always ask if we can put a man on the moon, why can't we fix X, Y, or Z. And I tell them: "Because, the people we had working on getting a man on the moon, are not the people designing your X, Y, or Z."
That made me laugh.
On the Christmas Eve when they came out of the dark Zone and we knew they were headed home safely. My Best Friend Eddie (RIP) even made my Dad laugh with his quip. And my Dad never laughed. Just smiled. But when Eddie said:
"Well, if I am at a Party with Neil...I guess nobody will want to hear my story of getting my drivers license on the first try." He said it so deadpan ...it cracked us all up. What story could possibly top walking on the Moon?"
I already posted in the comment section on that post about what my friend from South America said: " You F*ckin Americans don't know what is impossible." And I like that about us.
My little brother had only one question.
"Don't suppose they peed on the moon did they?"
There was no internet back then...so we all wondered if they just peed in their suits.
And to show how hard it is to scale up once you show something was possible. We all thought that there would be a Marriot on the Moon by the year 2000. After all, my Dad saw his first car ride in 1915 (a model T) and now he had just watched a guy walk on the Moon.
We all thought the future was headed the way of the Jetson's Cartoon. Little did we know what was coming that would change our personal lives forever. And those things happened right here on Earth.
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Exactly --- Pretty Much Same Here; Even Though I Was Born In 1944, I Recall Both The Milk Man And Our Ice Man Making Deliveries By Horse Drawn Carts. We All Know Why Milk Was Delivered, But Ice? Very Few. Those Were The Days When Only The Wealthy Could Afford A Refrigerator, So Most Of Our Families Still Had Ice Boxes, And The Ice Was Placed Above The Food In A Wooden Ice "Box" To Keep The Food Cool. And Now Sending Men To The Moon is Almost common Place -- We're Now aiming For Much further Into Outer Space... I Wonder How Many Others Recall, When We Thought Something To Be Impossible We'd Say "That'll Be The Day They Send A Man To The Moon"? --- We've Now '"Been There Done That" And The Saying Is Obsolete.
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SGT Kevin Hughes
The Ice Man came to our house until I was six years old. One of my first chores in life, was emptying the Ice Drip Pan before it got full. And the Milk Man, he knew my Mom and Dad (with ten kids at home) couldn't afford as much milk as we needed. So he always left an extra gallon, and every once in a while...chocolate milk. Later in life, when my Dad moved up the ladder and we went out to the Suburbs, he tried to pay that Milk Man back a significant amount of money. The Milk Man would not take a penny. And I had a job, that I have mentioned in several posts, of shoveling coal in a neighbors basement. We had a coal door but we were already gas heated when I was born. But I used to shovel a ton of coal into bins in that man's basement labeled: November, December, January, February, and March. And five even piles is what he demanded. He paid well!
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