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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    11/12/09

    In reply to Manhattan Media Elite Bravely Stand Up to Private School Where All Their Kids Go
    Practice. Preach. #dalton
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    11/12/09

    In reply to Manhattan Media Elite Bravely Stand Up to Private School Where All Their Kids Go
    Editors at The Daltonian were too coked up to comment, but did point out that their private tutors had basically written the story so why don't you go ask THEM and get out of their fucking FACES for ONCE because they didn't INVENT THE WORLD. #dalton
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    11/12/09

    @sanyucat: "sanyucat was starred" just about sums that up. #dalton
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    11/12/09

    @Astigmatism: Aww, sanks! #dalton
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    11/12/09

    @sanyucat: You sound awfully familiar. #dalton
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    11/12/09

    @raincoaster: I'm pretty sure I don't know you, but what's interesting is the paranoia I am now experiencing. Are you peeking in my bedroom window? Are you closer than that? ARE YOU MY DOG? #dalton
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    11/12/09

    @sanyucat: you just remind me of my co-blogger, Plumcake. #dalton
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    11/12/09

    @raincoaster: Oh, that is nice. #dalton
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    11/12/09

    @sanyucat: Well, it IS a compliment. #dalton
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    11/12/09

    @sanyucat: I see I screwed up the link. Here it is

    [manolobig.com] #dalton
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    11/12/09

    @raincoaster: It is a compliment for sure. #dalton
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    Image of Steverino Begins Steverino Begins
    09/28/09

    In reply to William Safire's Finest Speech
    AFTER THE LORD'S PRAYER:

    The Bewitched marathon that was interrupted should resume.
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    09/28/09

    In reply to William Safire's Finest Speech
    it sounds like it was written by modo
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    Image of Slackferno Slackferno
    09/28/09

    In reply to William Safire's Finest Speech
    How many versions of this speech did Safire write? Was he rolling a D20 for different scenarios? And did Bowie get an advance copy of this?
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    Seeräuber Jenny promoted this comment Slackferno was starred Slackferno was unstarred
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    09/28/09

    @Slackferno:

    I'm stepping through the door
    And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
    And the stars look very different today
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    Image of gargamel gargamel
    09/28/09

    In reply to William Safire's Finest Speech
    Good stuff to throw at the people who don't believe that we made it to the moon. Why have this speech ready if you were sure it wouldn't be a problem?
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    09/28/09

    @gargamel: So they could release it when Safire died as more evidence that it actually happened. Duh.
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    09/28/09

    @CaptainFantastic: damn, foiled again with the circular logic!
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    09/28/09

    @CaptainFantastic: and in case the stage set blew up if it was struck by a meteor or a giant t-rex escaped from its research cage and ate everyone
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    09/28/09

    @gargamel: Maybe the original plan was to kill the astronauts, so they couldn't testify that their was no moon landing. Then they found LSD; problem solved.
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    09/28/09

    @all: These are all perfectly cromulent scenarios.
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    09/28/09

    In reply to William Safire's Finest Speech
    For a real tearjerker, nothing beats the eulogy penned by LBJ in the event his Beagles Him and Her were untimely snatched from his ear-pulling meathooks by a UPS truck.
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    09/28/09

    In reply to William Safire's Finest Speech
    As far as burials at sea, you would be commending their REMAINS to the "deepest of the deep" (my, what drama), not their SOULS.

    If not, it sounds like you're hell's doorman.
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    09/28/09

    @scroll_lock: Good God, well spotted.
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    Image of BoxOhSoup BoxOhSoup
    09/28/09

    @scroll_lock: There wouldn't be any remains.
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    scroll_lock promoted this comment BoxOhSoup was starred BoxOhSoup was unstarred
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    09/28/09

    @BoxOhSoup: Don't read well, do you? I said as far as BURIALS AT SEA- I'm not talking about astronauts left on the moon. If you're having a BURIAL at sea, it's because you're burying remains, see how that works? If you get that now, you'll see what the rest of my original comment meant. Thanks for stopping by today.
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    09/28/09

    In reply to William Safire's Finest Speech
    I can imagine Safire writing this, privately pondering the etymological connections of lunar and lunacy.

    In a genre that requires weight and sober rhythm, this speech is beyond effective—it is positively anaphortastic.
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    Image of Aatom Aatom
    09/28/09

    In reply to William Safire's Finest Speech
    Our plan was to just turn off the radios? Seems kind of cold. I'd at least want people to talk to if I had to live on the moon for the rest of my life.
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    A Pimp Named DaveR promoted this comment Aatom was starred Aatom was unstarred
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    09/28/09

    @Aatom: Yes, that was the plan.

    Because when the stranded astronauts went hypoxic -- i.e. the percentage of oxygen dropped below the percentage that's required to sustain normal metabolism -- they'd start to feel euphoric and begin hallucinating. Eventually they'd pass out, but before then, they'd be ranting deliriously. It was thought that this was not a good last impression to give of tragic heroes sacrificing for their countries. Ergo, the policy was that as soon as it was medically determined that they weren't coherent, Mission Control would stop communicating with them.
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    Image of Seeräuber Jenny Seeräuber Jenny
    09/28/09

    @A Pimp Named DaveR:

    They weren't supplied with suicide pills?
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    Image of If_I_Had_a_Poodle If_I_Had_a_Poodle
    09/28/09

    @A Pimp Named DaveR: that's unbelievably cruel, to not offer them at least an ear
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    Image of A Pimp Named DaveR A Pimp Named DaveR
    09/28/09

    @if_i_only_had_a_heart: Maybe I should clarify something: the radios weren't "always on". (Nor are communications "always on" for the Shuttle and ISS today, for that matter.) You, the person in the capsule, have to initiate communications by pressing a button, at the very least.

    At the point at which Mission Control would have "turned off the radio", the stranded astronauts would, basically, be deliriously high from the lack of oxygen. They wouldn't really be able to use the communications setup with any semblence of effectiveness. And if they did, it would be ranting, incoherent gibberish. It wouldn't be cruel at all to "turn off the radio" at that point -- it would just just the reality of the situation.

    Nobody wanted the last words of some brave martyr astronauts to be "I'm fucking the daisy! Mandrake money moon on the shoehorn! Fucking the daisy!" or something like that. Because that's what you'd be getting.
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    Image of sassypants sassypants
    09/30/09

    @A Pimp Named DaveR: Agreed. And btw, anyone who is delirious due to hypoxia feels no pain at all, it's not cold. As well, that's the body's defense when dying under those conditions. It's a peaceful death.

    But your ""I'm fucking the daisy! Mandrake money moon on the shoehorn! Fucking the daisy!" made me snort with laughter. For that, I thank you.
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    Image of musicmope musicmope
    09/28/09

    In reply to William Safire's Finest Speech
    If only NIxon had been stranded on the Moon around, say, 1948.
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    Image of smithhimself smithhimself
    09/28/09

    In reply to William Safire's Finest Speech
    From the desk of Marty Singer:

    Fate has ordained that the brave man and woman who followed me into a lawsuit against Gawker will have to pay court costs and then rest in peace.

    McSteamy and wife know that there is no hope for recovery of damages.

    This brave couple has laid down their legal lives in mankind's most noble goal: to make risque videos of themselves with another naked woman.

    Prior to this statement: Get haircut and manicure. Wear the Armani suit.
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    Image of ZahirFergasun ZahirFergasun
    09/28/09

    In reply to William Safire's Finest Speech
    "These two men?"

    I'm starting to think Brigadier General Michael Collins might have been on the moon already and Aldrin and Armstrong brought him back as a living alien souvenir.
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    A Pimp Named DaveR promoted this comment ZahirFergasun was starred ZahirFergasun was unstarred
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    09/28/09

    @ZahirFergasun: This wasn't for a contingency where Collins was lost as well. It was for the contingency where the LM ascent engine didn't work, stranding Armstrong and Aldrin on the moon.
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    Image of TechLackey TechLackey
    09/28/09

    In reply to William Safire's Finest Speech
    Thanks. I needed a good opener for my Armstrong/Aldrin moon-stranding erotic fanfic.
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    09/28/09

    @TechLackey: I dutifully volunteer to beta that fic.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    09/28/09

    In reply to William Safire's Finest Speech
    It's pretty pompous of him to direct a clergyman on what to say in a religious context, and on what prayer to use. It's about as assholish as if a clergyman were to write a presidential speechwriter, and tell him what to say. If I were clergy, I'd tell him to cram it up his tight little asshole and make my own choices.
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    Image of One of Six Liberals in Alabama One of Six Liberals in Alabama
    09/28/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Although I'd love to bring up the toolishness of Nixon in this case, it's actually a pretty helpful statement for a clergy person.

    As a person who has designed liturgies, and as a person married to a clergywoman, I know it can be very hard to write a liturgy for an occasion that you've never thought of before. To my knowledge, you can't look in any liturgy book for any major denomination and find "A Liturgy for Those Stranded on the Moon." While it may seem like a pompous move to tell a minister what to say, directing someone to give a liturgy based on the common liturgy for those buried at sea would be a very helpful starting point for a clergy person who otherwise has no starting point.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    09/28/09

    @One of Six Liberals in Alabama: I was unaware that a layperson could suggest prayers for clergy. When I head out to church next, I'll have to remember to just amble up to the lectern and start suggesting things. In explanation, I'll then direct them to this comment page.
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    Image of MarkKB MarkKB
    09/28/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Did you even read his explanation? Or are you just being a jerk?
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    Image of Spy from the Land of Rainpeople Spy from the Land of Rainpeople
    09/28/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Jeez, Pope, please relax your righteous anger. I know you are Catholic and OoSLiA is obviously Evangelic (married to a clergywoman part.)

    Why restart the old acrimonies?
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