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One of my most favourite humourous stories ever...
« on: November 21, 2005, 07:27:28 PM »
...and, it's true!   ;D




ON JULY 20, 1969 , AS COMMANDER OF THE APOLLO 11 LUNAR MODULE, NEIL ARMSTRONG WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO SET FOOT ON THE MOON.
 
HIS FIRST WORDS AFTER STEPPING ON THE MOON, "THAT'S ONE SMALL  STEP FOR MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND," WERE TELEVISED TO EARTH AND HEARD BY MILLIONS.
 
BUT JUST BEFORE HE REENTERED THE LANDER, HE MADE THE ENIGMATIC  REMARK  "GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY."
 
MANY PEOPLE AT NASA THOUGH IT WAS A CASUAL REMARK CONCERNING  SOME RIVAL SOVIET COSMONAUT.
 
HOWEVER, UPON CHECKING, THERE WAS NO GORSKY IN EITHER THE  RUSSIAN OR AMERICAN SPACE PROGRAMS.  OVER THE YEARS MANY PEOPLE QUESTIONED ARMSTRONG AS TO WHAT THE   "GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY" STATEMENT MEANT, BUT ARMSTRONG ALWAYS JUST SMILED.
 
ON JULY 5, 1995 , IN TAMPA BAY , FLORIDA , WHILE ANSWERING  QUESTIONS FOLLOWING A SPEECH, A REPORTER BROUGHT UP THE 26-YEAR-OLD QUESTION TO  ARMSTRONG. THIS TIME HE FINALLY RESPONDED.
 
MR. GORSKY HAD DIED, SO NEIL ARMSTRONG FELT HE COULD ANSWER THE QUESTION.
 
IN 1938 WHEN HE WAS A KID IN A SMALL MIDWEST TOWN , HE WAS  PLAYING BASEBALL WITH A FRIEND IN THE BACKYARD.  HIS FRIEND HIT THE BALL, WHICH LANDED IN HIS NEIGHBOR'S YARD BY THE BEDROOM WINDOWS.  HIS NEIGHBORS WERE MR. AND MRS. GORSKY.  AS HE LEANED DOWN TO PICK UP THE BALL, YOUNG ARMSTRONG HEARD MRS.GORSKY SHOUTING AT MR. GORSKY.  "SEX! YOU WANT SEX?! YOU'LL GET SEX WHEN THE KID NEXT DOOR WALKS ON THE MOON!"
I was born in the Summer and at Night...my mother named me AUTUMN DAWN.  True story.

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Re: One of my most favourite humourous stories ever...
« Reply #1 on: November 21, 2005, 08:35:44 PM »
Love your life, poor as it is. You may perhaps have some pleasant, thrilling, glorious hours, even in a poorhouse. The setting sun is reflected from the windows of the almshouse as brightly as from the rich man’s abode; the snow melts before its doors as early in the spring. Cultivate property like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Turn the old; return to them. Things do not change; we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts…


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Re: One of my most favourite humourous stories ever...
« Reply #2 on: November 21, 2005, 09:20:31 PM »
 :-\\\\  Oh...that's a shame.  ~sigh~ It's an amusing story anyway.
I was born in the Summer and at Night...my mother named me AUTUMN DAWN.  True story.

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