I know WHY I'm up (and now in class, slacking), but I don't know what your excuse could possibly be. Go back to bed for me, K?
Natter 55: It's the 55th Natter
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I'm watching QI. And I'll have a nap later.
According to Stephen Fry, the first Native American that the Pilgrims met when they landed in 1620-whatever spoke fluent English, having crossed the Atlantic six times. He asked them for beer.
The first words actually spoken from the surface of the moon were not uttered by Neil Armstrong, but by Buzz Aldrin, who was piloting the landing craft.
The first words actually spoken from the surface of the moon were not uttered by Neil Armstrong, but by Buzz Aldrin, who was piloting the landing craft.
I think those words were, "Contact light. OK, engine stop." ("Contact light" meant the long probes that stuck out below the landing gear had touched the surface of the moon.)
Buzz Aldrin was also the first to relieve himself on the moon.
eta: Actually. Armstrong was piloting the Lunar Lander. Aldrin was assisting by reading out data from the computer and instruments.
I think those words were, "Contact light. OK, engine stop."
Stephen Fry awards you some points!
"Deutchland, Deutchland uber alles" are no longer the first words of the German national anthem.
What are they now? "We're really sorry"?
What are they now? "We're really sorry"?
Heh. That crossed my mind.
Sorry about that
Won't happen again....
Yeah, sort of. They adopted the third verse of the anthem, which was the least militaristic and bombastic.
Unity and justice and freedom
For the German fatherland;
For these let us all strive,
Brotherly with heart and hand.
Unity and justice and freedom
Are the pledge of happiness.
I am pretty much anti butt cleavage as a fashion statement, but that may because my first and still strongest associations with it have to do with portly males who wear their pants low on their hips not as fashion so much as a way of avoiding their beer gut.