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Before he made his big speech about Americans landing on the moon by the end of the decade, Kennedy had a discussion with advisers at which he was quoted as saying something along the lines of "We've got to pull our finger out or else the first man on the moon will be called Sergei". Can anyone point me in the direction of the actual quote?

― N., Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Urgently.

― N., Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

RHETORICAL N. THREAD ALERT. I betcha.

― Graham, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I fail to see what I would rhetorical advantage I would gain by posing this question. I just want to know the answer.

― N., Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

this gives a likely date

― mark s, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Since we are getting ILE to do our work today, could someone come round and get my boss a coffee please? Black no sugar.

― Emma, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Evidence for the prosecution

― Graham, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And more

― Graham, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

And more

― Graham, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

http://www.quickspice.com/scstore/images/coffee-ucc- black_lg.jpg

― Graham, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

(I'm very bored)

― Graham, Monday, 20 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

"I believe this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to earth."

Address to joint sesion of Congress (May 25, 1961)

I've just realised that this is not what you're looking for. Oh well, it's more helpful than a big can of coffee.

― Sister Disco, Tuesday, 21 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That's not what rhetorical means.

― alix, Tuesday, 21 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry for ruining N's thread so ineptly.

― Graham, Tuesday, 21 May 2002 00:00 (twenty-three years ago)

three years pass...

'im never through with a girl til i've had her three ways'

can anybody source this (apocryphal?) quote? googling only brings up wikipedia, rotten.com & messageboards

― ,,,,,,,,,,, Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:23 (twenty years ago)

pretty sure it's in 'why england slept'.

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:43 (twenty years ago)

man id love to read the senior theses by other ex presidents - anybody know what george w's was at yale??

― ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:46 (twenty years ago)

http://www.news.harvard.edu/guide/students/images/pres/Kennedy.jpg

― ,,,,,,,,, Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:52 (twenty years ago)

http://images.usatoday.com/life/_photos/2004/2004-07/13-mtv-inside.jpg

l-r: Kennedy, Bill

― Dan (Presidential Meetings That Never Were) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 23 February 2006 16:57 (twenty years ago)

haha republican or no id still have kennedy 3 ways for real

― ,,,,,,,, Thursday, 23 February 2006 17:00 (twenty years ago)

^^ HOW TO BE A PLAYER

― ,,,,,,,,,, Thursday, 23 February 2006 17:00 (twenty years ago)

i'd have her two ways, i don't know about three

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 23 February 2006 17:03 (twenty years ago)

i dunno which way youd pull out of but im delighted by the thought of a lil blount-kennedy

― ,,,,,,,,,, Thursday, 23 February 2006 17:46 (twenty years ago)

T/S: certain early '90s MTV personalities vs certain early '90s Channel One personalities

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 23 February 2006 17:51 (twenty years ago)

anderson cooper!!

― ,,,,,,,,,,,,, Thursday, 23 February 2006 17:53 (twenty years ago)

lisa ling!

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 23 February 2006 17:53 (twenty years ago)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/56/CBSSerena.jpg/180px-CBSSerena.jpg
i always liked her but she looks alot better now w/o the platinum caesar cut

anybody else lol @ gideon yago in tokion last year gettin his political beard on

― ,,,,,,,,,,,, Thursday, 23 February 2006 17:55 (twenty years ago)

I'm afraid I think Suchin is a dud. I tried v hard to like her but her "perky!" and "friendly!" and "happy!" personality not only get in the way of her news-reporting skills where she should be level-headed and objective (I can imagine her giving any news, even bad news like of someone's fatal stabbing, with a "it's magical!! vitamins! jazzercize is grebt!!" slappy-happy-attitde) but also deter her from coming across like a 3-rd dimensional person, you know, like, uhhh Serena Atchulspelledwrong (who's dud for other reasons.) Um. Anyway.

Yeah, we need an oriental hottie who speaks no english.
I nominate Atsuko Yamano to take Kurt Loders place.

http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/pic200_web/drp100/p188/p18856qbis0.jpg

ATSUKO IN 2003

You Know it Just Make No Sense! (TM)

-- Lord Custos Omega (LordCusto...), December 30th, 2002.

― ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, Thursday, 23 February 2006 17:58 (twenty years ago)

Whatever happened to Duff? She popped up in a movie and a coupla segments of TV Nation, but that's all i remember.

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 23 February 2006 18:00 (twenty years ago)

alison stewart too
http://www.gogomag.com/as/x_alisonstewart.jpg
two ways, i don't know about three

― ,,,,,,,,,, Thursday, 23 February 2006 18:17 (twenty years ago)

Was she the one on ABC's graveyard shift news program?

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 23 February 2006 18:24 (twenty years ago)

as usual, wikipedia knows all

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 23 February 2006 20:13 (twenty years ago)

Channel One held a mock presidential election called OneVote on October 19th and 20th, 2004. This was the third such mock election in the program's history. There was no OneVote election in 1996.

1992
The initial vote in 1992 had 3,400,000 participants. Bill Clinton won the 1992 OneVote, garnering 43% of the vote. George H.W. Bush got 27%, with independent Ross Perot getting 24% of the vote.

Actual election result: Clinton won, Bush finished second, Perot finished third. OneVote was correct.

2000
When OneVote returned in 2000, 878,000 students participated and "elected" George W. Bush to the Presidency with nearly 60% of the vote. Al Gore, the Democratic challenger, finished a distant second.

Actual election result: Bush lost the popular vote, but won the electoral vote, OneVote is right in that Bush did win the presidency.

2004
The 2004 OneVote gave George W. Bush a second term in office with 55% of the vote. John Kerry finished second with 40% of the vote, while all third party candidates as a group (voters could only vote for them as a group) got 5%. The vote consisted of 1,400,000 students.

wtf??!!!???

― ,,,,,,,,,,,,, Thursday, 23 February 2006 20:16 (twenty years ago)

Whatever happened to Duff? She popped up in a movie and a coupla segments of TV Nation, but that's all i remember.

She was diagnosed with the nervous system disease sarcoidosis and was off-the-map for awhile. She's got a couple of books out now and pops up on TV here and there.

― The Equator Lounge (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 23 February 2006 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Kathy Kronenberger, yo.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 23 February 2006 21:00 (twenty years ago)

Your search - Kathy Kronenberger - did not match any documents.

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whereas another Channel One talking head, Maria Menounos, has quite different GIS results

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 23 February 2006 21:38 (twenty years ago)

Last time I saw Kathy, she was reporting for an Ohio station on CNN when that runaway train tore through two states a few years ago.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 23 February 2006 21:42 (twenty years ago)

I'm Audra Lee! See you next time on KIDS BEAT!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Thursday, 23 February 2006 21:54 (twenty years ago)

http://hitparade.ch/cdimages/soul_asylum-runaway_train_s.jpg

― Dan (Etc) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 24 February 2006 00:50 (twenty years ago)

oh man, you don't even know. I got paid $60 to sit in some CC radio marketing thing tonight and "Rate" my reaction to about 500 songs. 10 second snippets, 2.5 hours worth.

it was a thing put on by the local alt-rock channel, which is doing the "'90s classic alt-rock" thing, so LOTS of the most absolute shittiest early-mid-90's post-grunge. I mean, SO MANY songs that i thought i'd burned from my memory. Gin Blossoms, Bush, at least 7 No Doubt singles, every STP single, Candlebox, Marcy Playground, Matchbox 20, Counting Crows, and multiple singles from 10,000 Maniacs, Sarah Maclachlanahanaran, Collective Soul, Wallflowers, etc.

positives: Catherine Wheel's "Black Metallic", both version of "Hurt", at least 7 Cure singles, "Love Will Tear Us Apart," etc

Strangely absent: Hole, Spin Doctors

I mean, i was glad for the cash, but NO ONE should have to listen to the Gin Blossoms.

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 24 February 2006 05:23 (twenty years ago)

twelve years pass...

Here's what happens if you speed up moon landing footage and add Yakkity Sax pic.twitter.com/qunHh6lqSv
— 👻low voter turnout💀 (@JordanUhl) October 23, 2018

― mark s, Wednesday, 24 October 2018 13:40 (seven years ago)

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