Riding on The Moon?

[nomiles]

John B. Slight of the MSC Flight Support Division rides an original prototype of a lunar cycle under 1/6 gravity conditions aboard a KC-135 aircraft August 1969

[cyclecat]

Imagine the easy wheelies and massive airtime you could get at 1/8th gravity. Woo hoo!

[VespaFitz]

Said German Trick:
Vespafitz was an astronaut?

Of course, you putz.

[VespaFitz]

Said German Trick:
Hold the phone. If that's you then who the hell is this???

That's Bingo. When I was in space, I hired Bingo to take notes for me.

I would just sit there with my mind a complete blank while the monkey scribbled on little pieces of paper. At the end of the week Neil Armstrong said "Fitz, I want you to write a paper using your notes."

So I wrote a paper that said "hello my name is Bingo. I like to climb on things. Can I have a banana? eek eek!" I got an F. When I told my mom about it, she said "I told you never trust a monkey!"

The End.

Ha ha ha! Monkeys are funny. Monkey! MONKEY!! MONKEY!!!

[VespaFitz]

When I was working at this internet startup a few years ago, there were a whole shitload of people who insisted on bringing their fucking dogs to work.

If you brought a kid to work it was sort of frowned upon. But bringing your flea-bitten pooch in to let him crap in the corner, lick his balls and sniff everybody's crotch was A-OK.

Let alone the fact that several of us in the office were allergic to dogs and couldn't be in most of the offices in the building for more than ten minutes. Fuck humans, dogs are cute!

After I got good and sick of this childish, immature bullshit, I told everyone that would listen that I was ordering a cappuchin monkey that was specially trained to sit on top of my bookcase and throw his doody at every dog that walked by.

Christ, it's no wonder everyone that worked there is collecting unemployment.

[VespaFitz]

Said German Trick:
Hey Fitzy. Have you seen the latest Nissan commercial?

Dick Dale whaling on his gee-tar baby!

Yeah, he told me he had just done that when I talked with him.

[DoctorIt]

Keep your fucking pets where they belong people. Behind a sturdy chain-link fence in the back yard.

I'm not saying the office is any place for Fido, but YIKES! Why the all the hate for the dogs? I think toddlers are annoying but i don't tell people to keep their fucking kids in a crib where they belong.

But back to the thread... anyone ever been up in a KC135???

[VespaFitz]

Said adventurErik:
I'm not saying the office is any place for Fido, but YIKES! Why the all the hate for the dogs? I think toddlers are annoying but i don't tell people to keep their fucking kids in a crib where they belong.

My biggest problem? Dogs literally make me sick. Some dog owners -- most that I've come in contact with, including best friends and family -- are simply incapable of understanding that, even when you try to explain it to them rationally.

The automatic assumption is: You don't like dogs. Well, I like dogs just fine. I like cigarettes and maple-cured bacon, too. But I have to stay away from both because sooner or later, they will literally kill me.

Everyone seems to understand and sympathize with a penicillin allergy. But if you have the same reaction to a dog, you're a pussy.

I've stopped going to my aunt's house entirely because after 16 years of going to the emergency room after being at her house, and feeling like shit for three days afterward, she doesn't get the fact that her dogs make me sick.

So it's not the dog so much as the owner. Like proud parents that assume everyone just loves drooling little Junior, dog owners can often be ignorant morons.

[Mr. King]

Said ErikM:
But back to the thread... anyone ever been up in a KC135???

I was a crew chief on them for four years; a SAC trained killer.
Awesome airplane.
I only got to do the serious zero-gravity thing one time. We were over the Pacific headed to Hawaii and hit an air pocket (down draft). We lost about 3000 ft. in short order. My back was stuck to the roof for several seconds and then we hit bottom.
That, my friend, was a bell ringer!

MacMan

[Doh!]

NASA released this photo years ago.

[motu]

Let's get this back on topic - dogs and Dick Dale.

Man,you should get in some of the cars I have to drive - they are mobile kennels,I nearly spew my guts out getting in them...open the window to get some air and it's a snow storm of dog hair! Dog owners are like smokers - they have no idea that someone could object to the stink they create.I don't care if you smoke or have dogs or shit your pants for fun - just spare my nose eh!

Hey is Dick Dale FINALY going to get famous? bit late for such a huge talent you reckon?

Oh,the space bike? look at those small wheels....wankers bike I say.

[Mr. King]

I believe the thread was about riding a lunar-cycle on the moon and doing wheelies at 1/6 gravity which spawned conversation about VespaFitz former occupation as an astronaut which further brought to light VespaFitz involvment in animal training in the space program that initiated a paradoxical parallel story whereby German Trick was deeply saddened about not making it to the major leagues of poopball due to the inadequate training given to him by his grade school orangutan coach. [Breath]

The thread made an errant turn when VespaFitz, being entirely captivated and thence possibly emotionally overwhelmed by German Trick's story that the animals in his other former occupation as an internet startup guru, began to take the heat, which was seconded by German Trick and then ever so passingly alluded to by EricM who made a valiant attempt to return to the thread's basic subject (and being observant enough to recognize the interior of a KC-135) by asking if anyone had ever flown in said KC-135. [Breath]

VespaFitz, either by omission or coincedental timing missed the KC-135 question and continued with the thread's now established sub-theme of animal bashing while (your's truly) MacMan proceded to answer the said above question by relating a possibly (albiet loosely) related experience.The earlier reference to Dicky Dale was a passing thought lost in the theme and sub-theme of the thread and was hardly worthy of notice. [Breath]

Mr. motupaika, your post, although generally following the aformentioned sub-theme and also aformentioned passing thought, brings a totally new point of contention to this otherwise pointless thread to which I may ask you...

Can we leave the smokers out of it?!

Thanks, MacMan

[DoctorIt]

and way to bring a thread back from the dead! That was a good wrapup to read on a monday morning after differential equations class...

[nomiles]

Said MacMan:
I believe the thread was about riding a lunar-cycle on the moon and doing wheelies at 1/6 gravity ~~~snip~~~
Thanks, MacMan

[Mr. King]

Now THIS makes me want to go there!!!

Said nomiles:

Hang time that's out of this world!