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NASA uses Looney Toons characters on mission patches (my title)
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| 6.2.03
Posted on 06/04/2003 12:21:34 PM PDT by mhking
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To: mhking
NASA has had a "naming competition" for the 2 rovers: the results are supposed to be announced this weekend. Off the top of my head, I came up with these - feel free to add more:
Lewis & Clark (as a Brit I don't even know who these guys were, apart from the fact they were American explorers, but they seem very famous on t'other side of the pond)
Daffy & Bugs (please!)
Stanley & Livingston
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posted on
06/04/2003 2:20:41 PM PDT
by
alnitak
("That kid's about as sharp as a pound of wet liver" - Foghorn Leghorn)
To: mhking
Marvin The Martian and Daffy Duck (as Duck Dodgers)Yep. It's NASA alright.
To: BCrago66
Thre only interesting observation ever made by Maureen Dowd is the similarity of voice characteristics of Marvin the Martian and Alan Keyes. Maureen the Martian to President Bush: "You are making me veeeery angry!"
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posted on
06/04/2003 2:26:34 PM PDT
by
JoeSchem
(Okay, now it works: Knight's Quest, at http://wwwgeocities.com/engineerzero)
To: mhking
Wait until they try to put the enemy of Teddy K. on a patch. Think "flag".....
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posted on
06/04/2003 3:02:45 PM PDT
by
tracer
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To: tracer
"Enemy" should have been "image"...
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posted on
06/04/2003 3:03:27 PM PDT
by
tracer
(/b>)
To: tracer
But, then again, his image is his enemy.......
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posted on
06/04/2003 3:04:32 PM PDT
by
tracer
(/b>)
To: stainlessbanner
Perhaps Syria or Iran in the not-too-distant future.....
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posted on
06/04/2003 3:05:43 PM PDT
by
tracer
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To: alnitak
Lost & Found
(Okay, perhaps the latter is a bit too optimistic.)
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posted on
06/04/2003 3:07:59 PM PDT
by
newgeezer
(Your special interest is no better than theirs if they're both unconstitutional.)
To: mhking
NASA has completed its transformation into a joke.
To: stainlessbanner
Rackin' Frackin' NASA!
To: Moonman62
One of the Doolittle Raider bombers had noseart of Daffy Duck on crutches with the airplane name " Ruptured Duck". I don't think that made the Army Air Force a joke, do you ?
The pilot went on to write " Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo".
Comic character noseart is and old honored tradition. Lighten up.
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posted on
06/05/2003 4:07:13 AM PDT
by
tlb
To: Constitution Day
Frumious Bandersnatch is from Lewis Carroll's "Through the Looking Glass" A thoroughly nasty creature in the same class as the Jabberwocky.
Whatever you do, *don't* add water to those martian pills...
To: Frumious Bandersnatch
A thoroughly nasty creature in the same class as the Jabberwocky. Yes, Junior reminded me of that.
It's been years since I read it, but I cannot believe I forgot.
O Frabjous Day!
Thanks for the warning on the Martian pills. *g*
BTW, I have a 3-year-old daughter and our Saturday morning ritual is watching Looney Tunes together.
FRegards,
CD
To: mhking
Martin wanted to blow up the earth because it blocked his view of Venus.
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posted on
06/05/2003 6:20:09 AM PDT
by
jriemer
(We are a Republic not a Democracy)
To: mhking
Been there, done that...
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posted on
06/05/2003 6:21:46 AM PDT
by
jriemer
(We are a Republic not a Democracy)
To: mhking
The backup crew (Gene Cernan, Ron Evans, and Joe Engle) for the Apollo 14 mission had this patch made up:
CDR Al Shepard was not amused...
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posted on
06/05/2003 6:23:14 AM PDT
by
Cincinatus
(Omnia relinquit servare Republicam)
To: tlb
Comic character noseart is and old honored tradition. Lighten up. True, but considering NASA's many problems, it's the wrong thing to do.
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