Crazy Bald Dwarf Lies For No Reason

[GOBUCKS]

Try to grasp the scene she's laboring to describe.

Apparently nadin began to lie at an early age.

Mon Aug 6, 2012, 01:55 AM
nadinbrzezinski (107,420 posts)

Earliest space program memory
For me it was Armstrong landing and the moonshot.

I was three...it was my brother's graduation from Junior High, but I digress. My dad took me outside where a bunch of men were huddled around a black and white set, watching. Dad held me on his shoulders, the tv was hanging from the ceiling on large brackets. I remember Zabludovsky (this was in Mexico) with large earphones translating Armstrong's words. I was enthralled.

And that is one of my earliest memories. Not just of the space program, but my life.

I guess that touched me deeply. I have followed the space program since and am a geek when it comes to NASA. So what are your first memories of the space program?

(and dad I miss you, wish you were here to see this, just as impressive as that grainy image coming from the moon)

   
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10021080156#post14

[Bad Dog]

Considering the (mostly correct) spelling & syntax, I'm guessing she riped this off from some other person. 

[thundley4]

My dad took me outside where a bunch of men were huddled around a black and white set, watching. Dad held me on his shoulders, the tv was hanging from the ceiling on large brackets.

Outside has a ceiling in Mexico?

[Airwolf]

Not only that but that was broadcasted very late at night here in the midwest when Armstrong made his decent onto the moons surface so why was she up that late at about 2-3Am live? I was about 10 years old when he walked on the moon and there is no way the bald dwarf is younger then I am.

[ChuckJ]

Not only that but that was broadcasted very late at night here in the midwest when Armstrong made his decent onto the moons surface so why was she up that late at about 2-3Am live? I was about 10 years old when he walked on the moon and there is no way the bald dwarf is younger then I am.

Considering all that she claims to have done she has to be around 1700 years old.

[GOBUCKS]

Another DUmpmonkey misremembers:

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Original post)
Mon Aug 6, 2012, 02:21 AM
enlightenment (5,382 posts)
14. Earliest vague memory is standing in the back yard

looking up at the tiny spot of moving light that my dad told me was Friendship 7.

Friendship was the Mercury capsule that carried John Glenn.

Far too tiny to be visible with the naked eye.

(And despite claims, no one, anywhere could see the Sputnik satellite.)

Friendship 7 launched around 10am for about a four hour mission, so it wasn't up at night over the U.S.

Nearly all recollections people have from seeing spacecraft many years ago are from the Echo satellites, huge metallized balloons that were orbited around 1960.

They were over 100 feet in diameter, and were pretty easy to see reflecting the sun in the night sky.

I think visibility (in Russia) was their main purpose.

[thundley4]

I think nadin may have been one of the primary trainers for Laika

[seahorse513]

What year was the first moon landing??

[Chris_]

What year was the first moon landing??

July 20, 1969

[JakeStyle]

She's an odd duck.

[GOBUCKS]

She's an odd duck.

Yeah, odd.

She does walk like a duck, though.

[Airwolf]

They love to rewrite history if for no other reason then to build up their credibility at the DUmp. Seriously people do you have to lie about everything at the DUmp just because you feel a need to connect to some story in the news?

[Wineslob]

Outside has a ceiling in Mexico?

No, but maybe Mexico does, or was that the floor?
Too much Tequila to recall. 

[franksolich]

Yeah, odd.

She does walk like a duck, though.

My mental thesaurus has abandoned me, and I can't find the real book.

We all know that some people are "hourglass"-shaped.

What's the word for the opposite of that, hourglass?

Where the middle bulges out, and the top and bottom are thinner.

[Chris_]

oblate sphereoid

[franksolich]

oblate sphereoid

Thanks sir--that was quick.

Now I have to figure out how to use it.

[Airwolf]

My mental thesaurus has abandoned me, and I can't find the real book.

We all know that some people are "hourglass"-shaped.

What's the word for the opposite of that, hourglass?

Where the middle bulges out, and the top and bottom are thinner.

Planetary mass?  

[Skul]

Something to think about.

Mon Aug 6, 2012, 01:55 AM
nadinbrzezinski (107,420 posts)

Earliest space program memory
For me it was Armstrong landing and the moonshot.

I was three...  Keep this in mind

Moon landing, 20 July 1969

Response to nadinbrzezinski (Original post)
Mon Aug 6, 2012, 02:21 AM
enlightenment (5,382 posts) edit because I missed this part during original comment
14. Earliest vague memory is standing in the back yard

looking up at the tiny spot of moving light that my dad told me was Friendship 7.

Glenn/Friendship 7, launch and orbit.... 20 Feb. 1962

The great Gnads of Gnome is soooo great, she remembers stuff four years before her birth.

[franksolich]

Something to think about. :-)Moon landing, 20 July 1969
Glenn/Friendship 7, launch and orbit.... 20 Feb. 1962

The great Gnads of Gnome is soooo great, she remembers stuff four years before her birth.

You made the same mistake I almost did, sir.

Actually, it's not Baroness Munchausen who made the comment about Friendship 7; that was another primitive.

I always guessed Baroness Munchausen to have been born circa 1964-1965-1966, and it appears I wasn't far off.

<<if misses, at least comes close.

[seahorse513]

I am gonna start wearing my wading boots, whenever I read her posts from now on. The shit is either going to get deeper, or I will end up drowning in it...

[Skul]

You made the same mistake I almost did, sir.

Actually, it's not Baroness Munchausen who made the comment about Friendship 7; that was another primitive.

I always guessed Baroness Munchausen to have been born circa 1964-1965-1966, and it appears I wasn't far off.

<<if misses, at least comes close.

I just realized that and came back to correct.  
Ya beat me to it.

[franksolich]

I just realized that and came back to correct.  
Ya beat me to it.

Yeah, when I first saw it, I started writing a comment about the inconsistency, but God told me to re-read it, and I discovered oops, it wasn't Baroness Munchausen.

[JakeStyle]

My mental thesaurus has abandoned me, and I can't find the real book.

We all know that some people are "hourglass"-shaped.

What's the word for the opposite of that, hourglass?

Where the middle bulges out, and the top and bottom are thinner.

She is under-inflated beach balloon shaped. They made a new category.

[franksolich]

She is under-inflated beach balloon shaped. They made a new category.

I like chris_'s term, "oblate sphereroid," and am trying to figure out how to use it creatively.

[Big Dog]

Yeah, odd.

She does walk like a duck, though.

Kvack, Kvack.