Sunday 26 August 2012

A tribute to Neil Armstrong, Yuri Gagarin, Great Uncle Freddie and the moon


Last night the world learnt of the death of Neil Armstrong who as we all know was the second man on the moon. I know the general view is that he was the first, but Great Uncle Freddie was the first; only he too was a modest chap and of course the only pictures were those on Great Uncle Freddie’s old box brownie. And in an incredible coincidence of fate, the same thing happened to Great Uncle Freddie and the now late great Neil Armstrong. 

You see technology was such that when Neil Armstrong went to the moon taking his trusty camera as you do, (lets face it, you are not going to go that far and not take a few personal photos) it was still the days of 35mm film… So on his return to Earth Mr Armstrong popped down to the chemist and left his rolls of film to be developed. However a week later on his return he was given pictures of an unknown family on a beach, luckily his efforts were recorded by NASA, unlike Great Uncle Freddie who then had no evidence to prove his story.




Anyway as a mad distorted and weird tribute to the late Neil Armstrong; I had a re-enactment today of his first steps on the moon, captured on my trusty digital camera. Far safer that letting a little shop send them to a man in a darkroom whom can’t read the labels to see whose film is whose because it is far to dark to read them.

You may notice in order to make it all look as real as possible we have tweaked the picture slightly but only a bit, some of you may notice the resemblance between me and Great Uncle Freddie (but not Neil Armstrong), apparently according to mum he was an IDIOT too (Great Uncle Freddie not Neil he was COOL).

And please remember that you are all expected to have a look at the moon tonight and say hello to Neil, alternatively you could kneel and say hello to the moon….. HAH HAHHAHAH HAH AHh ah hahhah hhah hah haha hah hahahahahhahhahh hah hah ha.

I think it might be good to say hello to Yuri Gagarin at the same time as he was the first man in space (second after Great Uncle Freddie)

Ooooooo by the way we had loads of gliders going over the house today probably about a dozen, which may not seem a lot but how often do gliders go over your house it is not very often at all. And we saw a frog, and ate spicy cheese scones………YUM.  

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12 comments:

  1. I wonder if Lance Armstrong and Neil Armstrong were related, and whether Neil had aLL the drug testing controversy as Lance and if Neil would have failed a drug test or if any of the other astronauts would have said he used special enhanced rocket fuel if he would have been stripped of his first man on the moon ttitle? Besides, I could probably change my story about going to the moon in my science fiction story about being a space alien where I fool NASA during my summer vacation, because I indicated that I had been to the moon before, but I never indicated when I first went to the moon. But then they are talking about claims for the first human on the moon and in my story I don't claim to be human, merely that I have a human form, outer appearance.

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    1. Here is my dumb joke of the day: If they are going to send Neil Armstrong's ashes to the moon, what would they use to get them there? Answer: A Sat-Urn V Rocket

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    2. That joke has earned (urned HAHAH HAHAHHAHha ah hah hah hahah ah) you some extra brownie points Mr ESB.

      I too thought about the Neil and Lance Armstrong thing, I think the old saying about things in three's will come into play now, so I am waiting for another Armstrong to appear. Ideally involved in some sort of transport approximately half way between a large rocket and a fast bicycle.....

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    3. The county in Texas that is south of the one south of me is Armstrong County. All of the counties in the Texas Panhandle region are eXtremely rectangular and have a tendency to have roads running east-west and north-south. Most of the counties have relatively boring names such as 1,2,3,... and then A, B, C, ... but in the magical county of Armstrong they use radio call letter words instead of A-Z, so there is Alpha, Bravo, Charlie,....

      There is also the American General George Armstrong Custer.

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    4. I had totally forgotten that General George Armstrong Custer was an Armstrong. Very soon we will have a cluster of Armstrong's.

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    5. It mentioned in the Battle of The Little Bighorn article that two of Custer's brothers also died in that battle. The first name of one of the brothers was Boston, which is my last name.

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    6. I didn't know he had brothers, it never said that in the film, or I don't think it did.

      http://www.houseofnames.com/boston-family-crest

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    7. Pineapple Update: I just put up a new picture of your pineapple plant at the bottom of the blog post The Empire of Rob

      The Empire of Rob

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  2. Heehee, I like the thought of Neil Armstrong taking his trusted 35mm film camera to the moon, to a take few personal photos.

    Great tribute, done in the way that only Rob Z can do. :D

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    1. Thanks Miss Lily.

      If I was sent to the moon I would take a camera with me.

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  3. What is the collective term for a group of gliders? A swoosh, possibly.

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