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Old August 15th 09, 06:47 AM posted to sci.space.history
Pat Flannery
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Default Student group wants to revive Gemini spacecraft design

Derek Lyons wrote:
He pretty much confessed to all of 'em. There is a small number of
people whose masturbatory fantasies he cancelled because they made no
sense in the real world, and they still hold it against him.



Somehow "Okay, I was wrong..." doesn't quite cover Vietnam though, does it?
In Japan the immediate follow-up to such a admission would involve
wrapping a Tanto knife in rice paper, and drawing a dotted line across
your belly with a Magic Marker, as well it should.
It's a pity that Dick Cheney also doesn't understand the concept of
"personal honor" either.


Pat