We'll kick off Shuttle Atlantis Day with a little humour. Here's a clip from the movie Project Moon Base [1953]. What are the two Moon Basers thinking?
Just so long as you promise I get to wear the hat too! I'll need it for my shift at the fry station. Welcome to McDonald's Circum-Luna, may I take your order ma'am?
Welllll ... OK, you can wear the hat, so long as you promise to do something about those styrene boxes and cups littering the external perimeter of Moonbase.
(whispers urgently to philotoadia) Pssst...those boxes and cups are Moonbase. The model-making budget got out of hand, so we had to cut back. We just turned a bunch of cups and cartons upside down, spray-painted them silver, and stuck them together with toothpicks. Don't spoil the illusion!
wonder if being in space gets me in the Mile High Club ?
ReplyDeleteyoud think with all this 22nd century technology theyd make a hat that bloody fits!
ReplyDelete(woman) The sign's good, but it's not one of Warhol's best pieces of social criticism.
ReplyDelete(woman) He has his eyes closed again ... I just know he's trying to picture me naked!
ReplyDelete(man) What did she mean by, "Tomorrow this Moonbase will be gone FOREVER"?
ReplyDelete(woman) I still say trying to get past Moonbase security by dressing as Santa's elves is crazy!
ReplyDelete(woman) This! They makes us wear this! And I was expecting a gold spacesuit ...
ReplyDelete(woman) You better be right about this party being fancy dress, Trevor!
ReplyDelete(woman) Brian, I have told you again and again! Stop wearing the same clothes as me. You look ridiculous!
ReplyDelete(woman) How on earth should I know what number you're thinking of?
ReplyDelete(man to himself) You can do this ... go on ... take a risk ... ask her out.
ReplyDelete(woman to herself) OMG ... I bet he's working himself up to ask me out.
(woman) If he threatens to spank me again .... (grrrrr)
ReplyDelete[it's in the movie]
(woman) I bet he's bald under that cap ...
ReplyDelete(man) Well, at least we get cool designer Yves Laurent logos on our t-shirts.
ReplyDelete(woman) Idiot!
(woman) Oh. My. God. I so hate working at Macdonalds!
ReplyDelete(woman) I'm not going to burst out laughing first.
ReplyDelete(man) Dont walk on the walls? What do they think we are? Kids? ... I plan on running along the ceiling!!! Wheeeeeeee!
ReplyDelete(woman) Join Project SWORD - Save the World - See the Universe ... wear a boyscout uniform .... Sheeeeesh. Why didn't I listen to mum and join SpaceX?
ReplyDelete(woman) OK, boyscout ... you still think standing in front of this target is a good idea?
ReplyDelete(woman) Noooooooo! Don't make me go out on the fashion catwalk looking like this, pleeeeease.
ReplyDelete(woman) Gary, this is absolutely the last time I let you shop for us in the Tesco clothes department!
ReplyDelete(man) "Ommmmmmmm"
ReplyDelete[he's meditating]
(woman) I detest having to wait in line for the bathroom EVERY morning in this crummy hotel.
ReplyDelete(woman) OK, you can open your eyes now ... those tourists have gone.
ReplyDelete(woman) Anne Francis gets gorgeous gowns, a pet tiger, the cutest robot, and a snog with Leslie Nielsen. What do I get? .... (bursts into tears)
ReplyDeleteWnder why they'd have sausages on the floor?
ReplyDelete(man) Hur hur, I just thought of a joke about these outfits we're wearing.
ReplyDelete(woman) Don't bother, philotoadia has already thought of them all!
;-)
What Woodsy hasn't yet made public is that all readers of this blog have to dress this way from the end of the month onwards ...
ReplyDeleteWhat's your size, RAB? (grins)
Sort of a personal question, don't you think?
ReplyDeleteJust so long as you promise I get to wear the hat too! I'll need it for my shift at the fry station. Welcome to McDonald's Circum-Luna, may I take your order ma'am?
Welllll ... OK, you can wear the hat, so long as you promise to do something about those styrene boxes and cups littering the external perimeter of Moonbase.
ReplyDelete(whispers urgently to philotoadia) Pssst...those boxes and cups are Moonbase. The model-making budget got out of hand, so we had to cut back. We just turned a bunch of cups and cartons upside down, spray-painted them silver, and stuck them together with toothpicks. Don't spoil the illusion!
ReplyDeleteRAB! Thank you, thank you, thank you! You gave me a genuine laugh-out-loud moment. I needed that. Great way to end the day!
ReplyDeleteI just know I am going to recall this at an inopportune moment (like in a queue somewhere) ... embarrassment awaits me.
Considering the source, high praise indeed!
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