The FReeper Foxhole Profiles Virgil "Gus" Grissom - Sep. 6th, 2004

www.hq.nasa.gov ^ | Mary C. Zornio

[alfa6]

I have a copy of that audio clip somewhere. I had a blast playing it for some of the engineers at work, at least the ones that I was pretty sure had a sense of humor ;>}.

Samwise if you want a copy freepmail me with an e-mail addy and I will get it to you.

Regards

alfa6 ;>}

[Samwise]

Thanks for the offer. I have it. The sobbing woman is me (figuratively speaking). :^)

[Darksheare]

I'm here.
Somewhat.
Sorry for my absence yesterday.

[SAMWolf]

Hi Victoria. They making you work on Labor Day??

[SAMWolf]

Afternoon Darksheare.

[Darksheare]

Seem to remember there being a sounding charge on Liberty Bell 7.. and the fact that it didn't go off.
If it had, Liberty Bell would've had a huge hole in it's side.
So when they recovered it finally, they had to carefully dispose of the sounding charge.

[Victoria Delsoul]

They making you work on Labor Day??

No way, but you're always working, LOL.

[Valin]

If I may quote that great XXth century philosopher (and snappy dresser) Maynard G Krebs
WORK!!

[SAMWolf]

No way, but you're always working, LOL.

It sure seems that way sometimes. :-(

[SAMWolf]

Things you'd really like to say at work!

01. I can see your point, but you're still full of crap.

02. I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronouce.

03. I see you've set aside this special time to humiliate yourself in public.

04. I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter.

05. Ahh...I see the screw-up fairy has visited us again.

06. I like you. You remind me of when I was young and stupid.

07. I'm already visualizing the duct tape over your mouth.

08. The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.

09. What am I? Flypaper for freaks!?

10. And your cry-baby whiny-assed opinion would be...?

11. This isn't an office. It's Hell with fluorescent lighting.

12. If I throw a stick, will you leave?

13. Whatever kind of look you were going for, you missed.

14. Can I trade this job for what's behind door #1?

15. Chaos, panic, & disorder - my work here is done.

[Tax-chick]

She is determined to go to Purdue and get an engineering degree. She's going to have to stop losing her homework first. Anoreth wants to go to the Air Force Academy, but if I take my eye off her, she's drawing pictures instead of learning algebra!

[Tax-chick]

Did your father work at the Cape?

No, he knew Shepard from NAS Lakehurst, somehow. Dad was in ZP's, when the Navy still had them :-). I don't know how he met Gus Grissom, but pilots seem to be sort of like priests ... if you mention one pilot (or priest) to another, it always seems like the know each other!

[Valin]

I LIKE IT!!
New tagline? I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter.
I can think of a number of people here who need this.

[snippy_about_it]

Good to see you. You're allowed a day off as long as you don't stray too far. :-)

[snippy_about_it]

She's a beauty! Thanks PE.

[snippy_about_it]

SNOPES
Rumor:

Fred Rogers served as a sniper or as a Navy Seal during the Vietnam War, with a large number of confirmed kills to his credit.

This same rumor has often been applied to boyish country singer-songwriter John Denver (among others), and it's just as false when told of Fred Rogers. Not only did Fred Rogers never serve in the military, there are no gaps in his career when he could conceivably have served in the military — he went straight into college after high school, he moved directly into TV work after graduating college, and his breaks from television work were devoted to attending the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (he was ordained as a Presbyterian minister in 1963) and the University of Pittsburgh's Graduate School of Child Development. Moreover, Fred Rogers was born in 1928 and was therefore too old to have enlisted in the armed services by the time of America's military involvement in Vietnam.

[snippy_about_it]

Good evening Victoria.

[Darksheare]

LOL!

[Samwise]

Your daughter is beautiful. How old is she? The Hobbit Lass is 12. She is working very hard to become an airhead teenager. My mother is no help in the advice department; she just chuckles.

[The Mayor]

Thanks snippy, that settles that.

Good research.