I will be watching!

It doesn't get old to me.

If I was smarter I could come up with a Burma Shave campaign before anyone else had a chance to chime in!

Too late.

re: #1 Truck Monkey

I will be watching!

Same here. It never gets old, does it?

Brave souls...

re: #5 scottishbuzzsaw

Same here. It never gets old, does it?

Have had the opportunity to be there for a night launch. On site in the bleachers at the cape. Words cannot describe.

Will the Space Shuttle finally discover the Moon God on the Moon? Wouldn't that be a kick in the pants.

We have a while to wait...

Turns out those ancient dudes in Mecca were right after all!

re: #9 zombie

Will the Space Shuttle finally discover the Moon God on the Moon? Wouldn't that be a kick in the pants.

This moon God?

open the bar!...oh wait, it never closes

re: #8 buzzsawmonkey

I'm going to watch
Discovery
'Cause I think space
Is cool to see
Burma Shave.

Try to do that in 4 or 5 cells in a row without interruption.

We were visiting my grandparents in Florida when Colombia went up for the first time. The place they rented was on the beach, south of Canaveral (sp?). The shock wave was incredible.

re: #5 scottishbuzzsaw

Same here. It never gets old, does it?

No. When I was a kid I used to draw pictures of every Gemini and Apollo launch, and of course knew the names of every astronaut. I was certain that by 2009 we'd have bases on the Moon and Mars and space travel would be old hat for the common man. Now, I tell my young children that someday, when they are grandparents, if they are standing on the Moon or Mars, to spend a moment thinking about Dad, who would have wanted to be there too.

I'm still waiting for the "Cook Inertial Propulsion" system to be confirmed, and then engineers to build a "space levitation craft" to ferry things up and down.

re: #12 simonml

This moon God?

The very one.

Has the new "administration" made public it's views about NASA?

just wondering...

re: #11 zombie

Turns out those ancient dudes in Mecca were right after all!

No, no, no. You want the Chinese Moon Goddess, Chang'e. Much more stimulating.

re: #12 simonml

This moon God?

does NOT look like a cresant carved into it's chest...that's a stretch

re: #20 brookly red

Has the new "administration" made public it's views about NASA?

just wondering...

Well, if they can find a way to tax it...

re: #21 dentate

No, no, no. You want the Chinese Moon Goddess, Chang'e. Much more stimulating.

I'd worship her ;-)

Just playing.

At this point, it's a marvel the old rattletrap can be wheeled out to the launch pad without a wing falling off.

Time for a new manned (or unmanned) launch vehicle!

re: #9 zombie

Will the Space Shuttle finally discover the Moon God on the Moon? Wouldn't that be a kick in the pants.

Free the rice-cake-pounding Japanese moon rabbit!

The solid boosters produce over two and a half million pounds of thrust.
The shuttles main engines close to half a million pounds of thrust.
How can anyone not love that much brute force?

re: #26 buzzsawmonkey

It's difficult to figure out whether to downding or upding you for that one! ;-)

re: #14 Truck Monkey

Try to do that in 4 or 5 cells in a row without interruption.

I'm going to watch

Discovery

'Cause I think space

It all seems so old hat doesn't it. When the first man landed on the moon in '69 my dad woke us kids up to watch the moon walk. I also remember watching the astronauts being picked up by aircraft carriers and put into a Gulfstream trailer on deck because NASA still wasn't sure what the astronauts might have picked up in space. The awe and sense of wonder that we approached the space program with in the 60's and early 70's is gone. It is sad in so many ways.

Is cool to see

Burma Shave.

re: #34 Truck Monkey

Curse you!

re: #9 zombie

Will the Space Shuttle finally discover the Moon God on the Moon? Wouldn't that be a kick in the pants.

Then the Muslims would all want to go to the Moon.
So, can we get the people who faked the Moon landings to fake this?
/JUST KIDDING!
I know the Moon landings were real.

re: #37 zombie

Curse you!

Truck Monkey was that big billboard that appeared in between the burma shave signs.

Going to space "Tonight"

re: #33 zombie

Sorry dude/dudette.

re: #29 DEZes

The solid boosters produce over two and a half million pounds of thrust.
The shuttles main engines close to half a million pounds of thrust.
How can anyone not love that much brute force?

Quick, someone calculate the carbon footprint. Might make a lib's head explode.

(Please keep in mind I could care less about a carbon footprint. NASA is awesome)

re: #29 DEZes

Obsessed with "thrust", are we?

"Some like it hot, some like it cold, some like it in a pot, nine days old."

re: #29 DEZes

The solid boosters produce over two and a half million pounds of thrust.
The shuttles main engines close to half a million pounds of thrust.
How can anyone not love that much brute force?

I'm happy with my Jetta

re: #20 brookly red

Has the new "administration" made public it's views about NASA?

just wondering...

Last I heard, they still didn't replace the head of NASA, despite some effort to get the administration to keep the previous one.

re: #22 albusteve

does NOT look like a cresant carved into it's chest...that's a stretch

it's well documented that the Al'lah of Mecca was originally a pagan lunar deity.

re: #33 zombie

I threw the challenge out there. I guess that it is only appropriate that I f*ck it up.

re: #16 dentate

No. When I was a kid I used to draw pictures of every Gemini and Apollo launch, and of course knew the names of every astronaut. I was certain that by 2009 we'd have bases on the Moon and Mars and space travel would be old hat for the common man. Now, I tell my young children that someday, when they are grandparents, if they are standing on the Moon or Mars, to spend a moment thinking about Dad, who would have wanted to be there too.

My husband and I were just talking about how much NASA fueled our imaginations while we were growing up the 60s. He had a dream come true to work on a project there...and they're still trying to get him to come back on a new work. We shall see! Colonizing Mars would be cool.

Yochanan, if you're here - check response to you bottom of last thread.

re: #44 quickjustice

Obsessed with "thrust", are we?

"Some like it hot, some like it cold, some like it in a pot, nine days old."

I wonder what Freud would say about that.

re: #47 zombie

it's well documented that the Al'lah of Mecca was originally still is a pagan lunar deity.

Fixed it!

re: #45 albusteve

I'm happy with my Jetta

I want the Millennium Falcon.

The other day, the planned trajectory was taking the shuttle up the east coast. They said we'd be able to see it, appearing as a fast moving yellow/red star.

Cloudy.

Moan.

re: #53 buzzsawmonkey

Space exploration
Is the thing
But remember:
Check the O-rings
Burma Shave

Tufte had a great report on the O rings in one of his books. Spot on analysis.

re: #51 DEZes

"Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."

Sigmund Freud

But on the other hand, there's always Bill Clinton to thank for relegating cigar smoking to an art form. As my 85-year old mother asked me, "Dear, why was President Clinton teaching that Lewinsky girl to smoke cigars?" ;-)

re: #54 Kosh's Shadow

I want the Millennium Falcon.

when you learn to levitate you shall have it, weedhoppa

re: #53 buzzsawmonkey

Space exploration
Is the thing
But remember:
Check the O-rings
Burma Shave

major ouch

Moonbats, Lunatics
Craters and Seas, Diana's
Home no place for me

re: #54 Kosh's Shadow

I want the Millennium Falcon.

You know that ship "made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs."

Yeah, I linked to wookieepedia

re: #43 simonml

Quick, someone calculate the carbon footprint. Might make a lib's head explode.

(Please keep in mind I could care less about a carbon footprint. NASA is awesome)

The main engines produce WATER. The SRBs burn aluminum using ammonium perchlorate and iron oxide. Not much carbon involved.

out on another topic and blog, someone suggests regarding naval issues in the south china sea we have our secretary of state organize a blockade of the port of los angeles, hit the chinese where it hurts. heh.

I saw a shuttle launch (Hubble) looking east from Orlando. It was definitely a kick.

ride rocket to space
to visit the stars above
what is this 'Burma Shave'?

re: #61 simonml

You know that ship "made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs."

Yeah, I linked to wookieepedia

But that's the only proper place to go!

re: #59 itellu3times

major ouch

OK, I will ask, wtf is the Burma Shave thing about?

re: #62 opilio

The main engines produce WATER. The SRBs burn aluminum using ammonium perchlorate and iron oxide. Not much carbon involved.

Cmon, that's a cop out. Where do you think they get the hydrogen from?

Godspeed to the crew of Discovery!

drat

re: #58 albusteve

when you learn to levitate you shall have it, weedhoppa

Funny, neither Han Solo nor Chewbacca were Jedi. How come they could have it, then?
I better learn to play intergalactic poker; I heard that's how Han won it.

re: #62 opilio

The main engines produce WATER. The SRBs burn aluminum using ammonium perchlorate and iron oxide. Not much carbon involved.

Have to burn a lot of carbon to store up that much energy in hydrogen or perchlorate anyway, just cuz it's indirect doesn't mean it's free.

/buzzkill

Good morning/ afternoon/ evening, lizards.

Team O has the message down.
From Drudge: Obama says economy sound, reassures investors.
Biden says economic confidence returning

Meanwhile, Obama's economic advisor Christina Romer channels Senator John McCain, says the fundamentals of the American economy are sound.

I expect the markets to tank tomorrow.

re: #65 Sharmuta

ride rocket to space
to visit the stars above
what is this 'Burma Shave'?

re: #67 brookly red

OK, I will ask, wtf is the Burma Shave thing about?

I can only hope you are both joking!

re: #55 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

The other day, the planned trajectory was taking the shuttle up the east coast. They said we'd be able to see it, appearing as a fast moving yellow/red star.

Cloudy.

Moan.

Ohhh, pobrecito!

re: #67 brookly red

OK, I will ask, wtf is the Burma Shave thing about?

Sort of an American form of poetry, like the haiku only different. You can google it. If you were over the age of sixty you'd know these things, grasshopper!

re: #67 brookly red

It's just lizards showing their advanced age. The Burma shave ads by the roadside were on several small signs spaced a few dozen yards apart. Each sign had a word or phrase. "Burma Shave" always appeared on the final sign.

re: #62 opilio

The main engines produce WATER. The SRBs burn aluminum using ammonium perchlorate and iron oxide. Not much carbon involved.

Yeahbut... Production of the H and O and aluminum all involved releasing a few thousand tons of CO2 into the atmosphere to help sustain our plant life on earth. CO2 allows the garden to grow.

re: #74 Jim in Virginia

Good morning/ afternoon/ evening, lizards.

Team O has the message down.
From Drudge: Obama says economy sound, reassures investors.
Biden says economic confidence returning

Meanwhile, Obama's economic advisor Christina Romer channels Senator John McCain, says the fundamentals of the American economy are sound.

I expect the markets to tank tomorrow.

Ummm, no I am gonna hold for now...

re: #75 zombie

Yes- mine was a joke.

re: #65 Sharmuta

re: #67 brookly red

Burma Shave signs.

re: #80 UncleRancher

Yeahbut... Production of the H and O and aluminum all involved releasing a few thousand tons of CO2 into the atmosphere to help sustain our plant life on earth. CO2 allows the garden to grow.

Ultimate spin master!

re: #54 Kosh's Shadow

I want the Millennium Falcon.

Nope, just give me Aragorn, Samwise and a good pony, I'll walk the bleeping Kessel run.

By the way, here's more on "the new kind of politics". Sounds like Barry [and implicitly the mainstream lefty media] are backpedaling on yet another issue... this time they're saying exactly what they constantly criticized McCain for saying (during the campaign last fall).

re: #78 quickjustice

It's just lizards showing their advanced age. The Burma shave ads by the roadside were on several small signs spaced a few dozen yards apart. Each sign had a word or phrase. "Burma Shave" always appeared on the final sign.

The question is evidence of some Lizards' youth and inexperience. Just sayin'

re: #78 quickjustice

It's just lizards showing their advanced age. .

I resemble that remark. If I could find my glasses to read the screen you'd get a downding.

re: #84 simonml

Ultimate spin master!

Try growing a garden without CO2. Don't work.

When into space
You would fly,
Light the candle,
Take the ride.
/NASA shave

re: #78 quickjustice

It's just lizards showing their advanced age. The Burma shave ads by the roadside were on several small signs spaced a few dozen yards apart. Each sign had a word or phrase. "Burma Shave" always appeared on the final sign.

Thanks... so it would not be a good idea to ask wtf Burma is anyway? huh?

L.A. area local man, a former Marine, is one of the astronauts departing today:
[Link: cbs2.com...]

re: #29 DEZes

The solid boosters produce over two and a half million pounds of thrust.
The shuttles main engines close to half a million pounds of thrust.
How can anyone not love that much brute force?

The liquid fueled first-stage engines on the Saturn V produced about 1.5 million lbs. of thrust each - and it had 5 of them - for about 7.5 million pounds of thrust. Since the Saturn V weighed almost 7 million pounds at launch, it needed every bit of it.

re: #77 itellu3times

Sort of an American form of poetry, like the haiku only different. You can google it. If you were over the age of forty sixty you'd know these things, grasshopper!

FTFY

re: #87 UncleRancher

The question is evidence of some Lizards' youth and inexperience. Just sayin'

Hi there!

Are those things still around?
I haven't seen any in ages, but I haven't been looking, either.

re: #90 UncleRancher

Try growing a garden without CO2. Don't work.

NOW you tell me!
/

re: #29 DEZes

Bet the greenies love that.

To the moon
We go or bust,
The greenies can
EAT OUR DUST!
Burma Shave

this little Falcon will do me just fine...

Image: YumaF15Banking.jpg

T-1 hr 40 min

re: #96 pre-Boomer Marine brat

MWAH!

re: #96 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Hi there!

Are those things still around?
I haven't seen any in ages, but I haven't been looking, either.

Hey Boomer, whassup?
I've been thinking about putting some up for the kids.

Space Shuttle YEA!

re: #95 Jim in Virginia

FTFY

There was a brief resurgence of the things in the sixties or seventies, but I think they stopped posting the originals much earlier than that - though many stood up for years after, especially out in the hinterlands. And I suppose you had to be old enough to read and remember them.
/I say this all without googling for any wiki-quality facts

re: #101 goddessoftheclassroom

MWAH!

LOL! That's where my cat wound up, but on the inside.

Problems with proceedures

re: #78 quickjustice

It's just lizards showing their advanced age. The Burma shave ads by the roadside were on several small signs spaced a few dozen yards apart. Each sign had a word or phrase. "Burma Shave" always appeared on the final sign.

They were primarily from the pre-Interstate days, no?

re: #88 buzzsawmonkey

Rangoon's a prison
or so they say
let's take the road
to Mandalay
/Myanmar Shave

Some of the anti-drunk driving groups where I live occasionally post "Burma Shave" type signs about driving drunk in the area. I remember seeing a few signs in the San Joaquin Valley last year advertising truck stops along I-5...

We brought Flat Earthers
To their knees
When we proved the moon
Ain't made of Cheese
Burma Shave.

When leaving the atmosphere
bring your own air,
You get up to orbit,
There ain't none there.
/NASA rave

re: #102 UncleRancher

Hey Boomer, whassup?
I've been thinking about putting some up for the kids.

Ask 'em if they'd like a telephone, then give them two tin cans and a length of string.

re: #106 buzzsawmonkey

If in space you'd
Not be annoyed
Try to avoid
The asteroid
Myanmar Shave.

modernization of last line leaves a little something out of the aura.

re: #107 opilio

They were primarily from the pre-Interstate days, no?

pretty much...two lane state highways mostly...I used to see them all the time as a kid on vacations...late fifties, early sixties

When PM comes
From overseas
The wise man hides
The DVDs
Burma Shave

Junta changes
name of country.
What's the difference?
We're still hungry.
Myanmar Shave.

re: #94 opilio

The liquid fueled first-stage engines on the Saturn V produced about 1.5 million lbs. of thrust each - and it had 5 of them - for about 7.5 million pounds of thrust. Since the Saturn V weighed almost 7 million pounds at launch, it needed every bit of it.

Cool thanks.
All combined the shuttles engines produce 6.5 million pounds.
Heres a link to NASA Shuttle page if your interested.
[Link: www.nasa.gov...]

I'd think a bunch of rocket scientists could figure out how to position the cameras so that I don't have to tilt my head to the side like a bird! Or, are they that way for a reason?

re: #106 buzzsawmonkey

If in space you'd
Not be annoyed
Try to avoid
The asteroid
Myanmar Shave.

Myanmart we stylish today

re: #116 zombie

Junta changes
name of country.
What's the difference?
We're still hungry.
Myanmar Shave.

excellent!

re: #107 opilio

Remember in Farenheiht 451, because traffic moves so fast, the billboards are very long (physically)? Am I remembering that correctly? Been a long time.

Burma shave signs were small, and they kept the words easy to read. Low (or at least, limited) literacy made them pretty simple to make out...at 45 mph or so.

re: #112 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Ask 'em if they'd like a telephone, then give them two tin cans and a length of string.

Great idea! Next time I see they're bored we'll break that one out.

re: #104 itellu3times I'm fifty three and I recall seeing them until I was ten or twelve, maybe even later. So sixty is too old. Forty is probably too young.
Hence I didn't fix it, just effed it up differently.

re: #107 opilio

They were primarily from the pre-Interstate days, no?

Absolutely.

re: #116 zombie

Sad. Perfect reflection.

The shuttle was launched
Into the night
To meet with the station
And miss the debris
To return home in glee
Burma Shave

/Beep

re: #106 buzzsawmonkey

If in space you'd
Not be annoyed
Try to avoid
The asteroid
Myanmar Shave.

I like the Myanmar/Burma twist.

How fast is 25 times the speed of sound?

You know, like Joe Biden, I'm probably the smartest person in the room ...(kidding!) ...but I feel so inadequate among all these poets. I love doggerl; no ability to write it.
Give me a quadratic to solve, please.

I wonder if the Shuttle will turn the instruments Earthward ...
To find out how much ice there really is at the poles.
/Probably not. It'd only prove how we've been ripped off with the Global Warming crap all these years.

Isn't Myanmar that naval air station outside San Diego?

re: #128 MandyManners

How fast is 25 times the speed of sound?

That means I won't hear the question until next month and you'll never hear the answer. Sad.

re: #128 MandyManners

How fast is 25 times the speed of sound?

speed of sound at sea level = 340.29 m / s

Do the math.

re: #128 MandyManners

How fast is 25 times the speed of sound?

760x25

re: #107 opilio

They were primarily from the pre-Interstate days, no?

You would not find Burma Shave ads on the interstate. I saw them on State Highways as a kid in the 60's. Made the trip to Grandpa and Grandmas a little faster.

re: #132 UncleRancher

That means I won't hear the question until next month and you'll never hear the answer. Sad.

Send it in a bottle?

Typhoon brushes
Burmese coastline
What you might call
a close
Myanmar shave.

re: #129 Jim in Virginia

You know, like Joe Biden, I'm probably the smartest person in the room ...(kidding!) ...but I feel so inadequate among all these poets. I love doggerl; no ability to write it.
Give me a quadratic to solve, please.

All the quadratics are yours, as long as I get to deal with the proofs.

Urine to water
sounds gross to me
But they have no Dewar's
on the Discovery
Burma Shave

/OK, I'll quit now.

re: #133 vxbush

speed of sound at sea level = 340.29 m / s

Do the math.

Oh, noez! Da maffs!

re: #134 albusteve

760x25

I'm gonna' hafta' take off my socks to figure that out.

re: #128 MandyManners

How fast is 25 times the speed of sound?

Sounds like a Match Game setup that invariably has at least one "Wedding Night" response from the panel.

re: #128 MandyManners

How fast is 25 times the speed of sound?

bout as fast as 0 kin spend yer pay check ;)

Is that 19,000 m.p.h.?

re: #128 MandyManners

How fast is 25 times the speed of sound?

19,175 MPH

re: #143 Bloodnok

Sounds like a Match Game setup that invariably has at least one "Wedding Night" response from the panel.

LOL!

re: #140 Chicago Blonde

"Nyet, but probably have vodka in ship station."

//

re: #144 brookly red

bout as fast as 0 kin spend yer pay check ;)

That fast?!

re: #114 albusteve

pretty much...two lane state highways mostly...I used to see them all the time as a kid on vacations...late fifties, early sixties

Same here, only about a decade later. Our cross-country trips were mostly late sixties - but there were still plenty of non-interstate miles out there.

I also seem to recall billboards scattered along the routes advertising attractions at absurd distances, e.g. a sign in New Mexico saying "Merimac Caverns - 861 miles ahead."

re: #139 buzzsawmonkey

Aw, c'mon. Have yourself a Myanmar-y little jingle; use updated rhymes. Don't you know that we all must get with the times? Have yourself a Myanmar-y little jingle; armed juntas dictate that anyone who uses the term of "Burma" is a reprobate! Have yourself a Myanmar-y little jingle, to replace "Burma Shave." No-one cares that this former colony is now enslaved.

I believe "Burma Shave" was a US registered brand, nutin' much to do with the former free now enslaved country. Jus sayin'

re: #146 DEZes

19,175 MPH

I whipped out my calculator and multiplied 760 x 25 to get 19,000. How did you get 125 more?

re: #150 opilio

Mr. Blonde and I drove to Wall Drug a few years ago and yes, I remember seeing billboards like that too.

re: #149 MandyManners

That fast?!

that why they call it escape velocity...

In famous words
By Isaac Newton
To ground is law
To air is human
Burma Shave

re: #142 MandyManners

I'm gonna' hafta' take off my socks to figure that out.

Hey Albusteve! It's working! Throw some more math problems out there.

/

re: #150 opilio

Same here, only about a decade later. Our cross-country trips were mostly late sixties - but there were still plenty of non-interstate miles out there.

I also seem to recall billboards scattered along the routes advertising attractions at absurd distances, e.g. a sign in New Mexico saying "Merimac Caverns - 861 miles ahead."

it's all part of the travel experience...SEE WALL DRUG!
[Link: www.roadsideamerica.com...]

re: #150 opilio

Same here, only about a decade later. Our cross-country trips were mostly late sixties - but there were still plenty of non-interstate miles out there.

I also seem to recall billboards scattered along the routes advertising attractions at absurd distances, e.g. a sign in New Mexico saying "Merimac Caverns - 861 miles ahead."

Have you ever read Travels with Charley by Steinbeck?

re: #152 MandyManners

I whipped out my calculator and multiplied 760 x 25 to get 19,000. How did you get 125 more?

The speed of sound is 767, respectively. air density comes into play.

The ^{shuttle is lifting offfffffff}

re: #154 brookly red

that why they call it escape velocity...

The Kid has been known to go that fast when I roar.

re: #152 MandyManners

I whipped out my calculator and multiplied 760 x 25 to get 19,000. How did you get 125 more?

beacuse it is probably more than 760mph...I don't know exactly...I'm no astronut

re: #156 Truck Monkey

Hey Albusteve! It's working! Throw some more math problems out there.

/

ROFLMAO!ROFLMAO!

re: #161 MandyManners

The Kid has been known to go that fast when I roar.

have you tried taxing em?

re: #162 albusteve

beacuse it is probably more than 760mph...I don't know exactly...I'm no astronut

Ahem:

Sound is a vibration that travels through an elastic medium as a wave. The speed of sound describes how much distance such a wave travels in a certain amount of time. In dry air at 20 °C (68 °F), the speed of sound is 330 meters per second (1,083 ft/s). This equates to 1,235 kilometers per hour (767 mph) or about one mile in five seconds. This figure is heavily dependent on air temperature (equations are given below), but is nearly independent of air pressure or density.

I'm reading Amity Shlaes The Forgotten Man- a history of the Great Depression. In the late 30's the lefty intellectuals who loved Soviet Russia and loathed the middle class bourgeousie (the Babbitts from the 1920's) started to shift. Stalin had exiled Trotsky and started the show trials; and businessmen like Wendel Willkie now seemed to have a better grasp of economic realities than FDR's New Deal bureaucrats who'd been in power for five or six years.
Maybe there is hope for our moonbats.

Uh oh, will that roger the thread?
*gulp*

re: #159 DEZes

The speed of sound is 767, respectively. air density comes into play.

Oh, noez. Da sighenz.

re: #163 MandyManners

ROFLMAO!ROFLMAO!

Sorry. I couldn't help myself.
; p

re: #162 albusteve

beacuse it is probably more than 760mph...I don't know exactly...I'm no astronut

You mean you didn't know that it's actually 767 m.p.h.?

*Harumph!*

re: #165 vxbush

I doped the answer...

re: #150 opilio

SEE ROCK CITY.

re: #168 MandyManners

Oh, noez. Da sighenz.

LOL!

re: #170 MandyManners

You mean you didn't know that it's actually 767 m.p.h.?

*Harumph!*

I knew it was between 0 and 1000mph...just a wild guess

re: #171 albusteve

I doped the answer...

Slacker! SLACKER!

re: #150 opilio

Same here, only about a decade later. Our cross-country trips were mostly late sixties - but there were still plenty of non-interstate miles out there.

I also seem to recall billboards scattered along the routes advertising attractions at absurd distances, e.g. a sign in New Mexico saying "Merimac Caverns - 861 miles ahead."

What was that pseudo-Mexican place in, I think, South Carolina, that was advertising for hundreds of miles? Anyone remember?

re: #160 pre-Boomer Marine brat

The ^{shuttle is lifting offfffffff}

Nicely done!

re: #170 MandyManners

Here.

I remember a Match Game episode where Gene Rayburn nearly stroked out cause CNR mis-spelled astronaut as astronut. And it was by mistake. I laughed like a ten year old.

Cause I was a ten year old (give or take)...

re: #172 Jim in Virginia

SEE ROCK CITY.

I love Rock City.
Always did, and still do.

re: #176 Kosh's Shadow

What was that pseudo-Mexican place in, I think, South Carolina, that was advertising for hundreds of miles? Anyone remember?

South of the Border.

re: #166 Jim in Virginia

re: #176 Kosh's Shadow

What was that pseudo-Mexican place in, I think, South Carolina, that was advertising for hundreds of miles? Anyone remember?

Pedro sez, stop at South of the Border.
I think it is still there.

re: #181 zombie

South of the Border.

twice in less than 24hrs that place has popped up...weirod

re: #182 brookly red

Yes?

re: #181 zombie

South of the Border.

That's right. Was it Pedro or Pablo that was on all the signs?

Try this calculator.

[Link: www.convert-me.com...]

Scroll down to "Other" and use "speed of sound in gas". It gives an output of 19,010 MPH for M25. Yes, it's not going to be traveling in a gas but should be close enough.

re: #176 Kosh's Shadow

What was that pseudo-Mexican place in, I think, South Carolina, that was advertising for hundreds of miles? Anyone remember?

SOUTH OF THE BORDER! Signs for the place start in Virginia to the North and South Georgia to the south. Very popular for some unknown reason. Place is a tourist trap dump. Signs have sayings in pigeon english. Many start with "Pedro Says...".

re: #177 zombie

Nicely done!

Thank you.

BBIAB. Need tea.

re: #128 MandyManners

How fast is 25 times the speed of sound?

8.25 km/sec in dry air at 20° C.

/About 153 km/sec in steel

re: #174 albusteve

I knew it was between 0 and 1000mph...just a wild guess

Actually, the speed of sound (Mach 1.0) varies with altitude, temperature and humidity, and increases with altitutde. Once you reach "space" it really doesn't have any meaning. At orbital altitude the ground speed required to stay in orbit is determined by orbit altitude. Once out of orbit the next barrier is c, the speed of light or about 300,000,000 m/s. That's fair quick.

re: #188 Truck Monkey

SOUTH OF THE BORDER! Signs for the place start in Virginia to the North and South Georgia to the south. Very popular for some unknown reason. Place is a tourist trap dump. Signs have sayings in pigeon english. Many start with "Pedro Says...".

dump?...is it near Petersburg?...never mind

re: #183 Jim in Virginia

Pedro sez, stop at South of the Border.
I think it is still there.

In Flushing Meadows they have a sign:

"Pedro sez, "My shoulder hurts".

The NCAA Selection show starts in 28 minutes.. I get more excited by that than Santa Claus coming...
Sorry...
/Yippee!

watching nasa tv and the cute voice chick u hear is actually cute and she is interviewing a member of nasa who has a pony tail. wow

re: #181 zombie

South of the Border.

What's the one in NM or AZ?
Tourist trap selling indian trinkets.

re: #158 MandyManners

Have you ever read Travels with Charley by Steinbeck?

No, ma'am. Do you recommend it?

re: #182 brookly red

Dang! my posts keep getting cut off like ...

I said re: "Maybe there is hope for our moonbats."

Pain is an excellent teacher.

re: #193 albusteve

dump?...is it near Petersburg?...never mind

South Caroliina! Two states from Virginia.

re: #19 zombie
Damn that was an interesting link. I just browsed it, will keep for future reading though.

re: #199 buzzsawmonkey
Who was the officer in charge of rousting out the vets?

Once The Kid hits this kind of math and science education, I'll be hiring a college student to help. I'm smart enough to know my limitations.

re: #203 pingjockey
I believe it was Douglas MacArthur.

re: #204 MandyManners
Heh! Ask them if they know the air speed of an unladen European swallow?

re: #198 opilio

No, ma'am. Do you recommend it?

Highly. Very highly. Charley was his poodle that he took on a trip around the nation.

re: #205 Jim in Virginia

re: #206 buzzsawmonkey

Y'all get a gold star.

re: #203 pingjockey

Who was the officer in charge of rousting out the vets?

Ike? or Patton...

re: #75 zombie
I don't know what it is either. lol

re: #197 pre-Boomer Marine brat

What's the one in NM or AZ?
Tourist trap selling indian trinkets.

Wall Drug in South Dakota is such a place. Bumper Stickers and Billboards for 100's of miles. You get there and are sooo disappointed.

re: #210 albusteve
See above. MacArthur with Ike.

re: #207 pingjockey

Heh! Ask them if they know the air speed of an unladen European swallow?

The first one who laughs gets hired.

re: #214 MandyManners
Yep. Takes smarts to appreciate Monty Python.

Damn. Laundry buzzer.

re: #207 pingjockey

Heh! Ask them if they know the air speed of an unladen European swallow?

African or European?

re: #212 Truck Monkey

Wall Drug in South Dakota is such a place. Bumper Stickers and Billboards for 100's of miles. You get there and are sooo disappointed.

The one I'm thinking about is like that. I believe it's on I-10 in NM, but I could be wrong.

re: #205 Jim in Virginia

I believe it was Douglas MacArthur.

Yep.

re: #212 Truck Monkey

Wall Drug in South Dakota is such a place. Bumper Stickers and Billboards for 100's of miles. You get there and are sooo disappointed.

the Corn Palace is even more so...Wall Drug was an oasis back in it's heyday

re: #217 Dustyvet

African or European?

The Bridge of Death

When does Mission Control issue the "Anyone wants to go to the bathroom with gravity this is your last chance" warning?

re: #218 pre-Boomer Marine brat

The one I'm thinking about is like that. I believe it's on I-10 in NM, but I could be wrong.

I recall stopping at a massive truck stop in the middle of nowehere on I 40 outside Gallup NM.

re: #223 Jim in Virginia

I recall stopping at a massive truck stop in the middle of nowehere on I 40 outside Gallup NM.

Ed got drunk there, or so I've heard.

re: #220 albusteve

the Corn Palace is even more so...Wall Drug was an oasis back in it's heyday

I was going to mention the Corn Palace. The outside IS the attraction. The corn made art on the front of the building. We went inside and there was nothing in there but folding chairs and tables. Imagine my dad trying to explain that to some hyper disappointed little kids. This was the same trip we went to Wall Drug too. The Black Hills and Mt Rushmore and The Badlands made up for it.

re: #220 albusteve

the Corn Palace is even more so...Wall Drug was an oasis back in it's heyday

I went to Wall Drug in 1976.

re: #218 pre-Boomer Marine brat

The one I'm thinking about is like that. I believe it's on I-10 in NM, but I could be wrong.

In the jungles of Vietnam, my unit found a Wall Drug sign in a tree pointing toward Wall Drug with the mileage. Nice bit of humor for a bunch of tired folks humping the boonies,

re: #226 Truck Monkey

I was going to mention the Corn Palace. The outside IS the attraction. The corn made art on the front of the building. We went inside and there was nothing in there but folding chairs and tables. Imagine my dad trying to explain that to some hyper disappointed little kids. This was the same trip we went to Wall Drug too. The Black Hills and Mt Rushmore and The Badlands made up for it.

Please don't tell me what the Cow Palace is made from...

hello Charles!
Would you consider adding a TAG called: 'Burma Shave' to this thread, please?
. . . , these Burma Shave 'signs' are keepers!

And to all the lizards who re-created these Burma Shave 'signs' (and variations thereof), I feel like I'm driving down I95. My Chevy convertible top is down, the radio is blasting 'Under The Boardwalk', and my hair is blowin' in the wind! -- SIGH

Closing the hatch now.

re: #225 Bloodnok

Ed got drunk there, or so I've heard.

Ed got drunk everywhere. Or at least, so he claimed.

re: #223 Jim in Virginia

I recall stopping at a massive truck stop in the middle of nowehere on I 40 outside Gallup NM.

Naw, the place I'm thinking of (it's been at least 20 years since I last went by it) is most definitely NOT a capital-T Truck Stop, though rigs may pull in there. It caters to the tourist trade.

re: #222 Bloodnok

When does Mission Control issue the "Anyone wants to go to the bathroom with gravity this is your last chance" warning?

looks like they are getting readuy to close the hatch, so that must have happened already, lol

re: #228 Dustyvet

In the jungles of Vietnam, my unit found a Wall Drug sign in a tree pointing toward Wall Drug with the mileage. Nice bit of humor for a bunch of tired folks humping the boonies,

*grin* ... I was never in-country, but I can imagine!

re: #235 jjmckay1216

looks like they are getting readuy to close the hatch, so that must have happened already, lol

I'm surprised they don't get claustrophobic in there.

re: #216 pingjockey

Damn. Laundry buzzer.

I completely forgot about the first load in the washer. Oh, well. It'll keep until tomorrow.

re: #226 Truck Monkey

I was going to mention the Corn Palace. The outside IS the attraction. The corn made art on the front of the building. We went inside and there was nothing in there but folding chairs and tables. Imagine my dad trying to explain that to some hyper disappointed little kids. This was the same trip we went to Wall Drug too. The Black Hills and Mt Rushmore and The Badlands made up for it.

we took that very trip from MI maybe1960 or so...the interstates were just here and there at the time

re: #222 Bloodnok

When does Mission Control issue the "Anyone wants to go to the bathroom with gravity this is your last chance" warning?

AREWETHEREYETAREWETHEREYETAREWETHEREYETAREWETHEREYET?

re: #237 vxbush

I'm surprised they don't get claustrophobic in there.

I know. They spend hours in there just waiting, sorta

re: #240 MandyManners

AREWETHEREYETAREWETHEREYETAREWETHEREYETAREWETHEREY ET?

Ill turn this thing around, I swear.

re: #235 jjmckay1216

I keep thinking of the scene of Scott Glenn as Alan Shepard, sealed in his hatch and practically weeping coffee...

re: #234 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Naw, the place I'm thinking of (it's been at least 20 years since I last went by it) is most definitely NOT a capital-T Truck Stop, though rigs may pull in there. It caters to the tourist trade.

I cannot think of a place like that in NM, maybe decades ago

re: #242 DEZes

DON'T MAKE ME COME BACK THERE...

OT, there's a beef rib roast in the oven and it's starting to smell really GOOOD {starting to drool a bit}

re: #223 Jim in Virginia

I recall stopping at a massive truck stop in the middle of nowehere on I 40 outside Gallup NM.

I remember getting stuck for about 30 minutes passing through Gallup, NM once in the pre-bypass days because we had the misfortune to be travelling during one of the Gallup All-Indian Pow-Wow Days.

I also remember being stuck just east of Albuquerque for an hour or two due to blasting during the construction of I-40.

Good times.

re: #240 MandyManners

AREWETHEREYETAREWETHEREYETAREWETHEREYETAREWETHEREY ET?

License Plate Bingo would be over pretty quick.

re: #246 UncleRancher

OT, there's a beef rib roast in the oven and it's starting to smell really GOOOD {starting to drool a bit}

my Beef-O-Roni is ready to go...got a spoon out and all that

re: #243 Chicago Blonde

*sigh* I mean from the movie, The Right Stuff.

Sorry, must have needed the tea more than I thought...

re: #249 albusteve

my Beef-O-Roni is ready to go...got a spoon out and all that

Hubby's making spaghetti. The sauce is simmering now.

hatch is closed. so no potty breaks now, lol. kind of interesting how they did that, btw. 6 sets of eyes going over the seals with a fine toothed comb

re: #250 Chicago Blonde

*sigh* I mean from the movie, The Right Stuff.

Sorry, must have needed the tea more than I thought...

never ever apologize for a totally stupid statement...you'll end up doing it all the time I've been told

re: #244 albusteve

I cannot think of a place like that in NM, maybe decades ago

It might of shut down, or maybe it was up on I-40 in AZ.
I'll have to email my daughter about it.

re: #240 MandyManners

AREWETHEREYETAREWETHEREYETAREWETHEREYETAREWETHEREY ET?

Don't make me come back there!

re: #251 vxbush

i ordered a pizza. it was just ok :(

re: #252 jjmckay1216

hatch is closed. so no potty breaks now, lol. kind of interesting how they did that, btw. 6 sets of eyes going over the seals with a fine toothed comb

So do they make the astronauts take laxatives or worse in order to make sure they don't have to go during launch?

re: #251 vxbush

Hubby's making spaghetti. The sauce is simmering now.

lucky you!...I don't have a hubby

re: #256 jjmckay1216

i ordered a pizza. it was just ok :(

Bummer. I can't have pizza unless I make the crust myself. And I rarely do that now.

Hello lizards,

I made up a batch of sukiyaki. White rice is the side dish. yummm

re: #257 vxbush

So do they make the astronauts take laxatives or worse in order to make sure they don't have to go during launch?

I know as we took off, i'd poop my britches for sure lol

The Kid's going to Denver with my dad this spring but he has the PSP to occupy him, plus a bunch of books and games.

Watching this feed gets me thinking that the jumpsuit has potential as business casual attire. I'm going to try it out in the office this spring. Perfect for work...and play (grrr).

re: #243 Chicago Blonde

I keep thinking of the scene of Scott Glenn as Alan Shepard, sealed in his hatch and practically weeping coffee...

re: #262 MandyManners

The Kid's going to Denver with my dad this spring but he has the PSP to occupy him, plus a bunch of books and games.

Why Denver?

re: #258 albusteve

lucky you!...I don't have a hubby

You gotta' work on putting that extra something in your hips when you walk, steve.