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Today Marks Of The Anniversary Of A Landmark Achievement In The History Of Space Exploration
You may have heard that it was fifty years ago today that Yuri Gagarin (a very nice, polite man, apparently, who once squeezed Queen Elizabeth's knee under the dinner table) became the first of our species to rocket out of Earth's atmosphere into outer space. Equally important, it was 22 years and 111 days ago today that Dennis Quaid (whose life got worse when he stopped using cocaine) became the first man to be shrunk down and injected into the body of another human being.
Inside Martin Short's pancreas, I see no God.
Squeezed Queen Elizabeth's WHAT? Don't leave me hanging, Bry! An entire Cosmonaut/British monarchy fanfiction webring depends on your answer!
@deepomega #jokesthatdon'tworknowthatthetypowasfixed
@deepomega Her KNEE! He squeezed the queen's KNEE!!!
Fixed. (Ughh! What a terrible word to omit. Sorry and thanks, Deepomega.)
"My God, it's full of celebrities!"
Today is also the 30th anniversary of the first space shuttle flight.
"The Yuri Gagarin machine: zero defects!"
the first man to be shrunk down and injected into the body of another human being
No love for Fantastic Voyage (1966)?
@NominaStultorum "Fantastic Voyage" was fiction.
Fiction? Thanks for destroying my boyhood dream of having Raquel Welch injected into my body.
Sorry. And also to Nomina: I didn't mean to be dismissive. "Fantastic Voyage" is indeed very fantastic. (I grew up on the animated TV series version myself.)
Dave, no need to apologize to me; I thought your reply was perfect. Heck, I thumbs-upped your comment. (Yours too, Lee.) I appreciate your sensitivity to the Problem of Conveying Tone etc., which I share.
I grew up watching the movie on video. There was a Fantastic Voyage cartoon?!