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adam & doctor drew

Dec 9th 2006, 11:27 AM

Contessa Brewer, "interviewing" a NASA guy on MSNBC about tonight's Discovery launch:

CB: "What are the astronauts doing right now?"

NASA Guy (Surprised): "Um..... I'd guess, sleeping."

CB: "They're probably being woken up now by people saying, 'There's a girl on TV talking about you now, get up and watch.'"

NASA Guy: (awkward silence)

CB: "Do you think that ever happens?"

(more silence)

NASA Guy (stunned): "Uhhh.... do I think what ever happens?"

CB: "That they ever get woken up to watch cable news."

NASA Guy: "Ummmm.... I hope not."

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Down The Highway

Dec 9th 2006, 02:27 PM

As cool as it is to be on cable news, I bet it's cooler to fly on the space shuttle. I think they win.

Pro

Dec 9th 2006, 03:34 PM

You're both wrong. The coolest job in the world is Vice President of the United States. Nice salary, free house, health care, pampering, perks....and you do have to do anything, except breathe! ;)

(And no, this is not political. I've though this for years, no matter who is in power).

ISTHISTHINGON?

Dec 9th 2006, 04:12 PM

Missed that interview...but DAMN! She was the wrong person to pick to interview the NASA guy....waaay wrong.

TVMattNYC

Dec 10th 2006, 07:46 AM

Originally posted by Pro:
You're both wrong. The coolest job in the world is Vice President of the United States. Nice salary, free house, health care, pampering, perks....and you do have to do anything, except breathe! ;)

(And no, this is not political. I've though this for years, no matter who is in power).And don't forget that fabulous PENSION!

The Fedora

Dec 10th 2006, 09:02 AM

good god. did she really say that?

anyone have a video clip?

wxgeek

Dec 10th 2006, 09:10 AM

Originally posted by adam & doctor drew:
Contessa Brewer, "interviewing" a NASA guy on MSNBC about tonight's Discovery launch:

CB: "What are the astronauts doing right now?"

NASA Guy (Surprised): "Um..... I'd guess, sleeping."

CB: "They're probably being woken up now by people saying, 'There's a girl on TV talking about you now, get up and watch.'"

NASA Guy: (awkward silence)

CB: "Do you think that ever happens?"

(more silence)

NASA Guy (stunned): "Uhhh.... do I think what ever happens?"

CB: "That they ever get woken up to watch cable news."

NASA Guy: "Ummmm.... I hope not."How the hell would they watch cable news? That would be an awfully long cable.

neodeity

Dec 10th 2006, 10:30 AM

Now I'm just a simple caveman, not used to your sophisticated ways - Okay I'm a director and not a writer - but, isn't "woken up" grammatically incorrect. Shouldn’t it be "awakened" (irrespective of the appropriateness of the question)?

adam & doctor drew

Dec 10th 2006, 11:50 AM

yes, it should.

I just quoted what she said.

Kace

Dec 10th 2006, 01:08 PM

Some days are better than others for Contessa...kinda like the rest of us.

Sultanosurf

Dec 10th 2006, 04:08 PM

All the choices for news, you watch MSNBC, and then comlain?

Caveat emptor...

adam & doctor drew

Dec 10th 2006, 04:58 PM

I watched for 5 minutes as I was flipping around.

sorry, I'll never "comlain" again.

upandown

Dec 10th 2006, 06:30 PM

There is a cable connected to the space shuttle?

Sultanosurf

Dec 10th 2006, 06:46 PM

Just foolin with ya, A-DD.

The list of Robert Stack's MSNBC mysteries grows...

Hey Up&Down, we stole a reader on your Granny Goes to War. Good stuff, check's in the mail. (Yeahright) Played Monarch Bay or the Presidio lately?

[ December 10, 2006, 06:49 PM: Message edited by: Sultanosurf ]

Roy Hobbs

Dec 10th 2006, 10:12 PM

Originally posted by upandown:
There is a cable connected to the space shuttle?Actually I ghost wrote a fascinating article for LAN Times about the fiber optic cable testing tools on board in my PR days... graemlins/sleep.gif

CleanBreeze

Dec 11th 2006, 07:33 AM

Pro writes: "You're both wrong. The coolest job in the world is Vice President of the United States. Nice salary, free house, health care, pampering, perks....and you do have to do anything, except breathe!"

Pro is partly correct. VP's also get to go hunting in a drunken stupor and shoot people in the face and get away with it...

They also get to be on the payroll of Halliburton and funnel contracts in Halliburton's direction....

"What a country!"

Spike

Dec 11th 2006, 08:06 AM

Originally posted by Kace:
Some days are better than others for Contessa...kinda like the rest of us.Except the rest of us aren't generally making idiots of ourselves on national television.

The Mockingbird

Dec 11th 2006, 09:28 AM

Originally posted by upandown:
There is a cable connected to the space shuttle?OMG, IT'S AN ORBITER

adam & doctor drew

Dec 11th 2006, 02:50 PM

Originally posted by CleanBreeze:
Pro writes: "You're both wrong. The coolest job in the world is Vice President of the United States. Nice salary, free house, health care, pampering, perks....and you do have to do anything, except breathe!"

Pro is partly correct. VP's also get to go hunting in a drunken stupor and shoot people in the face and get away with it...

They also get to be on the payroll of Halliburton and funnel contracts in Halliburton's direction....

"What a country!"um, this isn't the political forum.

Produce man

Dec 11th 2006, 02:55 PM

I remember back a few years ago, one of our twinkies interviewed a NASA astronaut. One of her questions was "So, do you guys orbit the earth, or, like, go to other planets, or what?"

No bull****.

Pro

Dec 11th 2006, 02:58 PM

Originally posted by Marty McFly:
Those 'perks' are also shared by most every elected politician in D.C.Wrong. Only POTUS and VPOTUS get free housing. And their own government-provided cars and planes.

facts

Dec 12th 2006, 06:38 AM

Originally posted by Produce man:
I remember back a few years ago, one of our twinkies interviewed a NASA astronaut. One of her questions was "So, do you guys orbit the earth, or, like, go to other planets, or what?"

No bull****.http://www.blisteringcheese.com/images/uploads/cnn18c.jpg

Big Country

Dec 12th 2006, 10:45 AM

Originally posted by facts:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by Produce man:
I remember back a few years ago, one of our twinkies interviewed a NASA astronaut. One of her questions was "So, do you guys orbit the earth, or, like, go to other planets, or what?"

No bull****.http://www.blisteringcheese.com/images/uploads/cnn18c.jpg[/QUOTE]:eek: :eek:

Signature on File

Dec 12th 2006, 10:52 AM

They don't have cable! They have the DISH Network and they are stealing Showtime and HBO!

ProSports23

Dec 12th 2006, 12:20 PM

Haha CNN really had that font on screen? I wonder how long it was up before someone said "You know guys, I don't think that lower 3rd is right"

Pro

Dec 12th 2006, 01:48 PM

Originally posted by Marty McFly:
Hey numbn*ts, I said MOST.And you were wrong. And insulting.

cinehead

Dec 13th 2006, 10:03 AM

I never watch CNN and have no idea who Contessa is, but is it possible she was joking?

The Mockingbird

Dec 13th 2006, 11:31 AM

Umm... isn't she on MSNBC?

cinehead

Dec 13th 2006, 01:28 PM

Originally posted by Mockingbird with cranberry sauce:
Umm... isn't she on MSNBC?My bad. Still, I never heard of her before.

FD2BLK

Dec 15th 2006, 04:58 AM

We had an anchor in my shop say on air, "I like it when they go out for air."

rootboyslim

Dec 15th 2006, 07:21 AM

Originally posted by CleanBreeze:
Pro writes: "You're both wrong. The coolest job in the world is Vice President of the United States. Nice salary, free house, health care, pampering, perks....and you do have to do anything, except breathe!"

Pro is partly correct. VP's also get to go hunting in a drunken stupor and shoot people in the face and get away with it...

They also get to be on the payroll of Halliburton and funnel contracts in Halliburton's direction....

"What a country!"Our VP is on the payroll of Halliburton at this time or any time during his term?

cinehead

Dec 15th 2006, 08:06 AM

Originally posted by Pro:
You're both wrong. The coolest job in the world is Vice President of the United States. Nice salary, free house, health care, pampering, perks....and you do have to do anything, except breathe! ;)

(And no, this is not political. I've though this for years, no matter who is in power).Nah, flying in space is still way cooler.

TXPhotog

Dec 15th 2006, 08:45 AM

Originally posted by H R Puff&Stuff:
They don't have cable! They have the DISH Network and they are stealing Showtime and HBO!Yea but they still don't have the NFL Network.

Produce man

Dec 15th 2006, 01:22 PM

Originally posted by Terps Champing it up in Disney:
<blockquote>quote:<hr />Originally posted by CleanBreeze:
Pro writes: "You're both wrong. The coolest job in the world is Vice President of the United States. Nice salary, free house, health care, pampering, perks....and you do have to do anything, except breathe!"

Pro is partly correct. VP's also get to go hunting in a drunken stupor and shoot people in the face and get away with it...

They also get to be on the payroll of Halliburton and funnel contracts in Halliburton's direction....

"What a country!"Our VP is on the payroll of Halliburton at this time or any time during his term?[/QUOTE]Of course not. Libbies just like to throw that around as fact. Remember? We went to war so that Cheney and all his oil cronies can make millions of the war. :rolleyes:

Spike

Dec 15th 2006, 02:35 PM

Originally posted by Marty McFly:
Hey numbn*ts, I said MOST.There are 537 elected officials at the Federal level, plus 13 DC City Council Members, one mayor, two "shadow senators" and one "shadow representative" who have no actual power, five elected school board members, and 37 advisory neighborhood commissioners. That's a total of 596 elected officials in Washington, DC.

Only two of them get free housing.

That's 0.3%, three tenths of a percent of the elected politicians in DC. No matter how you try to twist it, that is NOT "most."

Pooned by Pro. Or Prooned.

adam & doctor drew

Dec 15th 2006, 09:28 PM

I thought this separate forum was created to spare us this kind of "debate."

neodeity

Dec 17th 2006, 02:10 PM

Originally posted by adam & doctor drew:
I thought this separate forum was created to spare us this kind of "debate."boo hoo