08-25-2012, 03:12 PM
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Draft Pick
Join Date: Mar 2012
Location: Nashville
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I idolized him growing up. I wanted to be just like him...didn't quite make it to the moon, but I've had my fair share of adventures. RIP Mr. Armstrong
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08-25-2012, 03:25 PM
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#22
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Originally Posted by flamesfan6
i don't think that Lance is related to Neil
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Like a moon shot, that flew over your head.
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08-25-2012, 04:08 PM
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#23
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Unfrozen Caveman Lawyer
Join Date: Oct 2002
Location: Crowsnest Pass
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My first son is named after him. I recommend A Man On The Moon, by Andrew Chaikin.
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08-25-2012, 05:36 PM
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#24
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Franchise Player
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Originally Posted by Thor
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If you think the moon is smiling at you, there are likely a few serious mental issues that need to be looked at.
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08-25-2012, 05:42 PM
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Lifetime Suspension
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I will briefly come out of retirement for this.
Neil Armstrong walked on the moon 5 years before I was born. When I was 3 years old, 8 years after he was earths representative, in the greatest feat humanity has ever accomplished, I was given this children's book about astronauts by my parents, and with a ton of pictures of Neil Armstrong in it. One being the famous salute photo.
My parents read me that book 100's of times, and it had the consistency of cloth by the time I outgrew it, and my dad had it memorized. That book taught me to read, and Neil Armstrong became my hero, and inspired my interest in astronomy, a hobby I still enjoy immensely to this day. When people asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I would say. I wanna be Neil Armstrong.
This is one of those few famous people deaths that makes me truly sad. But calling him famous is an understatement. The man was an icon. Today I lost my childhood hero. And the world lost a great, brave hero, who embarked on a mission with his crew mates into the then unknown, that could have easily ended in tragedy.
Hundreds of years from now, when we finally look back on the people that truly inspired millions of people, his name will be right at the top of the list of true real life icons, that shaped the imaginations of countless generations.
RIP Commander Armstrong.
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08-25-2012, 06:07 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: NYYC
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Yeah, sure, but how much can you save me on a new Golf? And the undercoating, that's just a rip-off right?
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08-25-2012, 06:13 PM
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#1 Goaltender
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Welcome back Pylon
and RIP Mr. Armstrong.
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Connor Zary will win the Hart Trophy in 2027.
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08-25-2012, 06:20 PM
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#1 Goaltender
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A great tweet I read today:
"Nobody born since 1935 has walked on the moon."
Now it's not exactly referencing Mr. Armstrong, but it's quite the stat - our youngest astronaut to have walked on the moon is 78.
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08-25-2012, 06:33 PM
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First Line Centre
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Originally Posted by flamesfan6
i don't think that Lance is related to Neil
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08-25-2012, 06:38 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Cleveland, OH (Grew up in Calgary)
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R.I.P Neil. A true legend.
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08-25-2012, 07:00 PM
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First Line Centre
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Forty years ago, if you asked all the kids what they wanted to be when they grew up, I bet half would have said astronaut.
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08-25-2012, 07:04 PM
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First Line Centre
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Mckenzie Towne
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Originally Posted by pylon
This made me laugh:
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Lost me at the improper use of "then".
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08-25-2012, 08:26 PM
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Craig McTavish' Merkin
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NBC done goofed.
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Originally Posted by sclitheroe
A great tweet I read today:
"Nobody born since 1935 has walked on the moon."
Now it's not exactly referencing Mr. Armstrong, but it's quite the stat - our youngest astronaut to have walked on the moon is 78.
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Yeah, that's pretty sad. Hopefully we get someone on Mars before the last Apollo astronaut dies.
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08-25-2012, 08:30 PM
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#1 Goaltender
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Originally Posted by MillerTime GFG
Lost me at the improper use of "then".
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08-25-2012, 08:33 PM
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#36
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Franchise Player
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Kelowna, BC
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my folks saved these and gave them to me a number of years ago.... truly amazing!
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08-25-2012, 09:27 PM
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Scoring Winger
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: In the prairies, surrounded by sheep
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Originally Posted by troutman
My first son is named after him. I recommend A Man On The Moon, by Andrew Chaikin.
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Second that recommendation. It is "the" book for anybody interested in immersing themselves in one of if not the most exciting and incredible eras of mankind.
Chaikin has really done his homework and his writing style is sublime. There's a sequence in the book where he, using the actual radio transcripts, describes Buzz and Neil skimming the surface of the moon on manual control, fuel running out and alarms going off, searching for a suitable landing site. Unbelievable! Blew my mind!
There's also a film called For All Mankind by Al Reinert which is a must see. He sifted through hundreds of hours of NASA Footage of the Apollo missions, took the best, enhanced it, coupled it to an amazing soundtrack by Brian Eno and made the best documentary I have ever seen.
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08-25-2012, 10:00 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2001
Location: NYYC
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DownInFlames
NBC done goofed.
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Long may you run, Neil Diamond. 
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08-25-2012, 10:27 PM
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One of the Nine
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Originally Posted by Table 5
Long may you run, Neil Diamond. |
Lou Diamond Phillips runs marathons?
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08-25-2012, 10:35 PM
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Not a casual user
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: A simple man leading a complicated life....
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This photo shows a Sunday, July 20, 1969 news flash from The Associated Press detailing the news that astronauts, includiing Neil A. Armstrong, had landed on the surface of the moon. The family of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, says he died Saturday, Aug. 25, 2012, at age 82. (AP Photo)
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