thedefenestratorofprague
TheDefenestratorofPrague
thedefenestratorofprague

+1 Bad rendition of this song, sung by me, at work, right now.

Glad I didn’t work for NASA back then.  I would’ve told them you Can’t Get There From Here.

+ 1 Mott the Hoople and the game of Life. 

This is fucking wonderful.

Concussing the other catcher? That’s a plunking.

The fact that a 10 oz coke is described as large should tell you a lot about the weight differences between then and now.

Quietly accepting the unwritten rules of baseball is against the unwritten rules of baseball.

That being said, the alarm error situation is a little known fact about Apollo 11 and more people should be aware of it! Can you imagine approaching a new planet for the first time in the history of our species, and then a crazy alarm goes off, and Mission Control is like “Nah nbd keep going.”

Good Christ, it looks like a bowl of cold spew.

This is a treasure trove of “OMG, people ate that?”

My favorite part is that a ten ounce soda was considered “large”

I made queso.

I can’t wait for the next segment of “Tinactin a Fool”

Not sure that’s 100% accurate. Jesus and Peter definitely, but Paul is kind of a shitty person when you read his epistles and his conduct in Acts and some deutero-canonical books and might fit with modern Evangelical movements.... even post-Damascus.

Another sign of the times: 10 oz was considered “large”. Nowadays that’s “who the fuck drank 2 oz of my can of Coke?”

Regarding restaurants traveling back in time, I think the biggest question is whether or not you could get people to eat there in the 1950's. Tastes were just drastically different and all your customers were raised in that culture - nobody is going to eat your special sriracha burger in 1953; they’re looking at that