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                      WARD'S WONDERING WAYS
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             Ward's Wondering Ways
             By Ward Dossche
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In July 1969 man walked for the first time on the moon, First the
recently deceased Neil Armstrong, followed moments later by
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin.

Everybody even today knows Armstrong's landmark "One small step for
man; one giant leap for mankind" statement. It was followed by
several remarks, the usual COM traffic between him, the other
astronauts, on the mission and Mission Control. Before he re-entered
the lander, he allegedly made the enigmatic remark

      "Good luck, Mr. Gorsky."

For years people have questioned what it meant and Armstrong never
commented upon it.

However, 26 years after the moonwalk he did. Apparently mr.Gorsky
had passed away and Armstrong felt free to speak now.

Armstrong and his brother, so the tale goes, were playing baseball
in the backyard. His brother hit a ball which landed in front of
the Gorsky's, their neighbors, bedroom window.

As young Armstrong leaned down to pick up the ball, he heard
Mrs.Gorsky shouting at Mr. Gorsky, "Oral sex? Oral sex you want?
You'll get oral sex when the kid next door walks on the moon!"

So during the summer of 2004 I was in Seward Alaska
and on a particular date visiting the SeaLife Center there which
had been established with oil compensation money after the "Exxon
Valdez" disaster.

It so happened that Aldrin was visiting that day and there was a
handful of tickets for people to attend a presentation by the once
moonwalker from 34 years before.

It was pretty interesting. For example, the man was very short but
that never really shows from pictures, however these astronauts
had to be short, if you ever have seen an Apollo spaceship in the
National Air & Space Museum on the Mall in Washington DC, you'd
realise how cramped it was.

After his presentation there were some minutes for Q&A so I tried
my luck and asked clarification about the Gorsky-statement. Aldrin
had to laugh and explained it was one of the best space-jokes ever
but that none of it was true.

It was a hoax which started in about 1995, he explained which could
only have a life due to the internet, the speed of dispersal of
"news" and the impossibility of stopping a hoax such as that to
reproduce itself.

"Next Question!"

So there was this very fat lady asking "When you were outthere on
the surface of the Moon, did you have some kind of a divine moment
inspired by a higher being?"

Aldrin looked at the woman, smiled and said ...

"Lady, we went there for all mankind, not just for Presbytareans"

... and "that" is a true quote.

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