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Fishy
23rd January 2006, 15:02
guaranteed to make you smile..... especially
> since it's a true story.
>
> on july 20, 1969, as commander of the apollo
> 11 lunar module, neil armstrong was the first person
> to set foot on the moon.
>
> his first words after stepping on the moon,
> that's one small step for man, one giant leap for
> mankind," were televised to earth and heard by
> millions.
>
> but just before he re-entered the lander, he
> made the enigmatic remark "good luck, mr. gorsky."
>
> many people at nasa though it was a casual
> remark concerning some rival soviet cosmonaut.
>
> however, upon checking, there was no gorsky in
> either the russian or american space programs.
>
> over the years many people questioned
> armstrong as to what the "good luck, mr. gorsky...
> statement meant, but armstrong always just smiled.
>
> on july 5, 1995, in tampa bay, florida, while
> answering questions following a speech, a reporter
> brought up the 26-year-old question to armstrong.
> this time he finally responded.
>
> mr. gorsky had died, so neil armstrong felt he
> could answer the question.
>
> in 1938 when he was a kid in a small midwest
> town, he was playing baseball with a friend in the
> backyard.
>
> his friend hit the ball, which landed in his
> neighbour's yard by the bedroom windows.
>
> his neighbours were mr. and mrs. gorsky.
>
> as he leaned down to pick up the ball, young
> armstrong heard mrs.gorsky shouting at mr. gorsky.
>
> "sex! you want sex?! you'll get sex when the
> kid next door walks on the moon!"
>
> true story

onearmedbandit
23rd January 2006, 16:47
If only eh?

Sorry to burst your bubble mate! (http://www.snopes.com/quotes/mrgorsky.htm)

steved
24th January 2006, 13:26
If only eh?

Sorry to burst your bubble mate! (http://www.snopes.com/quotes/mrgorsky.htm)You're not gonna believe the interweb are ya?? C'mon :bleh:

SVrunner
24th January 2006, 13:46
Very nice true story ;)

deathstar
24th January 2006, 13:57
yep sounds good

vifferman
24th January 2006, 14:32
Apparently, there are no pictures of Neil Armstong on the moon, because Buzz Aldrin was so pissed off at not being chosen to be first that he somehow managed to not take any.
I tried to check this out, and found only one crappy photo of Armstrong's back, and that was about it, so maybe it's true.

Wolf
26th January 2006, 12:30
You're not gonna believe the interweb are ya?? C'mon :bleh:
Certainly not a circulated email purporting to be a "true story". But yep, it's a true story, and if I annoy everyone I know with emails, Microsoft are going to send me thousands of dollars, Nike and Reebok are both going to give me a lifetime supply of shoes and several kids dying of various nasty things are going to get vast amounts of money - all courtesy of the internet pisgies who can achieve great things that not even the CIA, NSA, KGB and our own valiant SIS can do, namely: track how many people an email gets forwarded to.

Must go, I've got to send out five emails to 150 people in the next three minutes or I'll have terrible luck for the next six years and I'll never have good sex again so long as I live. Bloody nosey internet pisgies, I wish they'd stop spying on me and telling people whether or not I forwarded emails!

Big Chim
1st February 2006, 18:16
Hahahaha, Good on Armstrong for helping his Nieghbour out