Always made me smile.... Take a look at this Urban Legends site. www.snopes2.com (for this legend look in "Questionable Quotes") Clarifies many of todays Urban Legends. (true/false/undetermines). Not to take the fun out of stories - some of my favorites weren't true. It is good that they'll shoot down harmful stories.
> > GUARANTEED TO MAKE YOU SMILE..
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> > ON JULY 20,1969, AS COMMANDER OF THE APOLLO 11 LUNAR MODULE, NEIL
> >ARMSTRONG WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO SET FOOT ON THE MOON. HIS FIRST
> >WORDS AFTER STEPPING ON THE MOON, "THAT'S ONE SMALL STEP FOR A MAN,
> >ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND," WERE TELEVISED TO EARTH AND HEARD BY
> >MILLIONS. BUT JUST BEFORE HE REENTERED THE LANDER, HE MADE THE
> >ENIGMATIC REMARK "GOODLUCK, MR. GORSKY." MANY PEOPLE AT NASA
> >THOUGHT IT WAS A CASUAL REMARK CONCERNING SOME RIVAL > SOVIET
> >COSMONAUT. HOWEVER, UPON CHECKING, THERE WAS NO GORSKY IN EITHER THE
> >RUSSIAN OR AMERICAN SPACE PROGRAMS. OVER THE YEARS MANY
> >PEOPLEQUESTIONED ARMSTRONG AS TO WHAT THE "GOOD LUCK, MR. GORSKY"
> >STATEMENT MEANT, BUT ARMSTRONG ALWAYS JUST SMILED.
> >
> > ON JULY 5, 1995, IN TAMPA BAY, FLORIDA, WHILE ANSWERING QUESTIONS
> >FOLLOWING A SPEECH, A REPORTER BROUGHT UP THE 26-YEAR-OLD QUESTION
> >TO ARMSTRONG.THIS TIME HE FINALLY RESPONDED. MR. GORSKY HAD DIED, SO
> >NEIL ARMSTRONG FELT HE COULD ANSWER THE QUESTION.
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> > IN 1938 WHEN HE WAS A KID IN A SMALL MIDWEST TOWN, HE WAS PLAYING
> >BASEBALL WITH A FRIEND IN THE BACKYARD. HIS FRIEND HIT THE BALL,
> >WHICH LANDED IN HIS NEIGHBOR'S YARD BY THE BEDROOM WINDOWS. HIS
> >NEIGHBORS WERE MR. AND MRS. GORSKY. AS HE LEANED DOWN TO PICK UP
> >THE BALL, YOUNG ARMSTRONG HEARD
> >MRS. GORSKY SHOUTING AT MR. GORSKY. "SEX! YOU WANT SEX?! ? YOU'LL
> >GET SEX WHEN THE KID NEXT DOOR WALKS ON THE MOON!"
> >
> > TRUE STORY.
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