Snopes is all over the Gaylord Perry story: http://www.snopes.com/sports/baseball/perry.asp

Of course, they’re about as equivocal as we are about it, but still.

Newsradio was great until Phil Hartman died.  One of the truly underrated shows of the last 20 years or so.

Over the weekend, my bar review course had a big ol’ MBE practice exam.  One of the questions involved a Gaylord Perry getting operated on by a Dr. Dark and a Dr. Slaughter.  Kid you not.  Timing couldn’t be stranger.

I know I’ve written about this one before, but maybe it was a while back:

Henner was on the Bob Costas show, maybe in the late 80s. The topic of her memory came up, and she said (or had written in her book or something) that she can tell you what she was doing on any given date in her lifetime.  So Costas starts throwing out dates. Things like July 4, 1976, or the day Nixon resigned or something, and she nails them.  Then he throws out July 20, 1969, and she gets rather shocked and doesn’t say anything.

Costas responds with something like “how can you not know what you were doing the day Armstrong walked on the moon.”  Henner responds by saying that that was the night she lost her virginity, in a shower, with some dude.

Just to be sure, that “Wake up, folks” line and the notion that the moon landing was a hoax were some sort of inside joke for ‘News Radio’ fans rather than an actual statement, right? 

Right?

I really don’t want to foster another ruckus, so please let this just have been a joke.

You know who doesn’t stand with the sheeple?

Carl Everett.

Dude doesn’t believe in either dinosaurs or astronauts. And any man who can convince umps to let him stand with his foot almost on home plate must know something.

David: just read the book, “Jimmy James, Macho Business Donkey Wrestler.” It has the real truth you won’t hear on CNN.

Ah, the footage of the moon landing was fake.  But the question is, which of the six moon landings
was filmed there? 

Even though it was just a joke, I figured I’d just get out one big rant.  (Partially as an excuse to give myself a break from my work.)

Ya know, I honestly suspect that this movie, ‘Capricorn One’, was the genesis of the hoax moon landing notion.  Which, first off, shows the power that Hollywood has over the zeitgeist (for instance, most idiots believe ‘Saving Private Ryan’ was realistic, when it was actually preposterous in a billion different ways - not the least of which was its depiction of the Normandy Beach invasion, which was more ludicrously exaggerated than scenes Michael Bay cuts out of his movies because they’re too over-the-top).  Secondly, it shows that people are willing to believe “conspiracy theories” as long as it’s hip to do so (the TV shows ‘Friends’ and ‘Family Guy’ - and many others, I’m sure - have all advocated the hoax moon landing idiocy).  It’s like the mainstream media has decreed that the moon landing hoax notion is the one safe “conspiracy theory” that even Arab-hating neo-cons can subscribe to.  (Of course neo-cons hate exploration: They’re weak men who seek dominate the status quo rather than to push outward and create and explore the new.)

The moon landing hoax notion is so stupid, so easy to disprove, and the evidence so flimsy, that you know the only reason people would ever believe it is because they were instructed to do so by the mainstream media.  The flip side of that coin is that that same mainstream media can successfully instruct retard Americans that evil Arabs are plotting world domination from a cave in Afghanistan, and they’ll actually believe that lunacy.  It just makes no sense.

Furthermore, it’s a tremendous insult to the incredible amount of work, ingenuity, courage, and, yes, lives, that were lost in the quest to out into space, orbit, and, finally, the moon.  (But, then again, most American man can’t even remotely conceptualize creating and exploring anymore, so perhaps it makes sense that making a perilous exploration in pursuit of knowledge and adventure would seem preposterous, in their drug-addled, military-worshiping heads.)

(Incidentally, that movie ‘Capricorn One’ - which you can watch in full at that link - is really very cool.  I simply don’t like that many people have apparently applied its fictional Mars landing tale to America’s real and glorious moon landing adventures.  But whatever.)