RodsArt opened this issue on Nov 22, 2007 · 22 posts
TheBryster posted Sun, 25 November 2007 at 10:32 AM
Pakled: There's a wonderfull story about the NASA Moon shots from a long while back.
Ya see, in the UK, being 'on the job' means 'to have sex'.
Well back when those guys were landing on the moon, as I recall, Joderal(ss) Bank, the UK tracking station, was helping out with communications -relays and all that technical type stuff. This was all open-mic stuff where everyone could hear everyone else so that if something went wrong everyone in the system would be able to pass on information etc etc.....
Well the Houston guys ("Huston we have a problem") asked the astronauts how they were feeling after a particularly tough day and couldn't understand why the Brits fell about laughing when the astronauts replied, "We're all pretty tired, we've been on the job all day..."
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