On Jul 21, 9:26*am, giveitawhirl2008
wrote:
On Jul 20, 7:10*pm, "Androcles" wrote:

"giveitawhirl2008" wrote in message

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Are you old enough to have watched the first Moon landing, live? (BTW
- Neil Armstrong apparently did NOT blow his lines. He said "One small
step for a man, One giant leap for Mankind." The "a" in "for a man"
did not come through due to the relatively poor quality of interworld
communications in 1969.)

Yes I am and yes he did blow his lines. The 'a' was omitted.

Neil insists he said the "a" and that it did not come through on the
transmission. Unless, since I last heard, they beat him into
submission and he signed a confession that he did NOT say it. (You
know, like they beat Buzz Aldrin into submission, made him get in
line, and pretend that the Moon landings really occurred? [:-)])

from what i could hear he sounded like he was struggling not to
explode into uncontrolable laughter. it is possible that as he was
holding his breath he produced a silent "a" without realizing it.