AlamoPA Mailing List: Fw: Must be over 52 to understand this one :)

[Sallie Carlson (wacsc11945]

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From: Robert Ahrenkiel <gp-bob11 [at] att.net>
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Subject: Fw: Must be over 52 to understand this one :)

Talk about the passage of time.  Down that list of oldies is a frosted glass with gold leaf's on it - I have 4 of them

in our cupboard.  I brought them from my folks home 3 years ago.  Remember the S & H green stamps, The gas

pump below is a newer model then the one used by Keifer's Pine Grove Resort.  Their's had a large glass cyclinder

on top of the frame with gallon markers on the side.  You asked a customer how many gallons he/she wanted and

you would pump a handle which forced gas into this glass container.  When you reached the proper amount of

gallons it was all gravity fed into the car.  Huh Karen?

 

 

The pictures are nice but make sure you read the

Neil Armstrong story at the end.

 

If you are under 55, you simply won't understand.

 

This one is still around 

IN CASE YOU DIDN'T ALREADY KNOW THIS LITTLE TIDBIT

OF WONDERFUL TRIVIA..............

ON JULY 20, 1969, AS COMMANDER OF THE APOLLO 11 LUNAR MODULE,

NEIL ARMSTRONG WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO SET FOOT ON THE MOON.

HIS FIRST WORDS AFTER STEPPING ON THE MOON,

"THAT'S ONE SMALL STEP FOR MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND,"

WERE TELEVISED TO EARTH AND HEARD BY MILLIONS.

BUT, JUST BEFORE HE RE-ENTERED THE LANDER,

HE MADE THE ENIGMATIC REMARK "GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY."

MANY PEOPLE AT NASA THOUGHT IT WAS A CASUAL REMARK

CONCERNING SOME RIVAL SOVIET COSMONAUT.

HOWEVER, UPON CHECKING, THERE WAS NO GORSKY IN EITHER

THE RUSSIAN OR AMERICAN SPACE PROGRAMS ..

OVER THE YEARS, MANY PEOPLE QUESTIONED ARMSTRONG

AS TO WHAT THE 'GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY' STATEMENT MEANT,

BUT ARMSTRONG ALWAYS JUST SMILED.

ON JULY 5, 1995, IN TAMPA BAY, FLORIDA, WHILE ANSWERING

QUESTIONS FOLLOWING A SPEECH, A REPORTER BROUGHT UP

THE 26-YEAR-OLD QUESTION ABOUT MR. Gorsky  TO ARMSTRONG.

THIS TIME HE FINALLY RESPONDED BECAUSE HIS MR. GORSKY

HAD JUST DIED, SO NEIL ARMSTRONG FELT HE COULD NOW

ANSWER THE QUESTION. HERE IS THE ANSWER TO

"WHO WAS MR. GORSKY":

IN 1938, WHEN HE WAS A KID IN A SMALL MID-WESTERN TOWN,

HE WAS PLAYING BASEBALL WITH A FRIEND IN THE BACKYARD.

HIS FRIEND HIT THE BALL, WHICH LANDED IN HIS NEIGHBOR'S YARD

BY THEIR BEDROOM WINDOW.  HIS NEIGHBORS WERE MR. AND MRS. GORSKY.

AS HE LEANED DOWN TO PICK UP THE BALL, YOUNG ARMSTRONG

HEARD MRS. GORSKY SHOUTING AT MR. GORSKY, "SEX? YOU WANT SEX?!

YOU'LL GET SEX WHEN THE KID NEXT DOOR WALKS ON THE MOON!"

IT BROKE THE PLACE UP. NEIL ARMSTRONG'S FAMILY CONFIRMED

THAT THIS IS A TRUE STORY.

Do pass it on, it's too choice not to be shared.