Dispatches from District 48
Posts tagged ‘Neal Armstrong’
Today in history, Neal Armstrong botched his lines in front of an audience of a billion people. The line was supposed to be "One small step for A man, one giant leap for mankind." Makes a lot more sense that way, but to most ears he dropped the A in front of "man" and ask any school kid to recite it, and they will usually say it without the A. I'll cut the guy some slack, he did everything else pretty well and he had a few distractions.
Lots of eulogizing going on. This one on Ayn Rand and Fawcett is certainly unique, though. Don't think that will make 20/20 tonight.
Postscript: Yes, I am of that age that I had her famous poster on my wall (Fawcett, not Rand). Ms. Fawcett was a member of my personal klutz-to-the-stars club. I once got an ink spot on her white blouse awkwardly trying to get an autograph (back when I used to value such things). I have also stepped on Raul Julia's foot at the academy awards, slammed a door open into Martina Navratalova's face at a hotel in Houston, thrown up in Neal Armstrong's bed at a ranch in Wyoming, and spilled a large fountain drink on Brooke Shields at Princeton.
