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Aug. 30th, 2006 06:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
camwynAs I was getting ready to leave work today, I stopped at the end of the main trading desk and looked up at the telly playing CNBC. They were showing some kind of space capsulish footage. I couldn't hear the sound just at that moment, and thought perhaps it was a commercial- but no. No, when the desk quieted down a bit, it turned out to be something about the Orion manned space vehicle. Huzzah, I thought.
Cut to footage of space shuttle launch. What, in the face of Ernesto? I thought.
Voice-over from announcer: "And so Discovery takes off, carrying our hopes for the Moon, Mars, and the future of space exploration with it." Ah, I thought.
And then, as they continued to show the liftoff process, they played the music.
This is Ground Control to Major Tom - you've really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear....
.... DUDE. NO. That's about the worst mismatch between intention and song since "Born in the USA" got played at a Republican convention.
Cut to footage of space shuttle launch. What, in the face of Ernesto? I thought.
Voice-over from announcer: "And so Discovery takes off, carrying our hopes for the Moon, Mars, and the future of space exploration with it." Ah, I thought.
And then, as they continued to show the liftoff process, they played the music.
This is Ground Control to Major Tom - you've really made the grade
And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear....
.... DUDE. NO. That's about the worst mismatch between intention and song since "Born in the USA" got played at a Republican convention.
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Date: 2006-08-30 10:22 pm (UTC)...
...Oh that's just wrong.
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Date: 2006-08-31 05:38 pm (UTC)You will all, of course, be completely unsurprised to hear that
-- Lorrie
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Date: 2006-08-30 10:43 pm (UTC)*bogleg*
Wow, that's worse than what Microsoft comes up with. Dear LORD do people not pay attention to LYRICS?
-- Lorrie
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Date: 2006-08-30 11:35 pm (UTC)And they can reply, "She kno-o-ows."
And then they can do a Venture Brothers sendup.
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Date: 2006-08-30 11:55 pm (UTC)-- Lorrie goes back to boglegging.
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Date: 2006-08-30 11:05 pm (UTC)...like the theme from Apollo 13. ;-)
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Date: 2006-08-30 11:51 pm (UTC)*STARES*
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Date: 2006-08-30 11:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-31 01:15 am (UTC)*looks up lyrics*
Oh for the love of...*headdesk*
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Date: 2006-08-31 02:14 am (UTC)Well... at least they didn't follow it up with "Ashes to Ashes"?
*hides*
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Date: 2006-08-31 12:48 pm (UTC)Damn it, I thought the urge to app Major Thomas Condon Hogarth, last of the solo space travelers, was dead and buried. *grumble* *mutter*
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Date: 2006-08-31 06:39 am (UTC)Ah, but it is somehow so. Perfect? No, so classic "we really don't know this, but it has the word ground control in so..."
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Date: 2006-08-31 08:27 am (UTC)Although to his credit he was apparently cursing Soviet bureaucrats all the way to impact.
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Date: 2006-08-31 12:44 pm (UTC).... good on Komerov for his choice of final words, though; nothing like the curse of a dying man to bring the attention of the Kindly Ones...
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Date: 2006-08-31 05:39 pm (UTC)What, as dramatically read by William Shatner? ;)
-- Lorrie
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Date: 2006-08-31 06:29 pm (UTC)-- Lorrie
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Date: 2006-09-02 03:48 pm (UTC)Byhakee, byhakee, fly me through space
take me away
far from this place...
- ClassicDrogn
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Date: 2006-08-31 10:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-08-31 10:54 am (UTC)Sad, and full of germs.
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Date: 2006-08-31 04:27 pm (UTC)No. Just no.
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Date: 2006-08-31 04:31 pm (UTC)*sigh*
maybe I'll just throw a supernatural space disaster into Ray's world.
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Date: 2006-08-31 04:32 pm (UTC)Post-death?
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Date: 2006-08-31 04:35 pm (UTC)He wouldn't be coming to Milliways dead, necessarily, but he might well be coming in haunted by something from the Cthulhu Mythos.
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Date: 2006-08-31 04:40 pm (UTC).... yes, that's the priest from "Eleanor Rigby".
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Date: 2006-08-31 04:49 pm (UTC)Damn it, Cam, I still need this brain!
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Date: 2006-08-31 05:40 pm (UTC)It's fun!
-- Lorrie, doing her part to make every day a little more surreal...
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Date: 2006-08-31 06:28 pm (UTC)Oh, that's just so we can make room for the shared components! It'll all be over in a minute, and then you'll not notice a thing!
-- Lorrie, trepanner at the ready...