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madokie

(51,076 posts)
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 05:24 PM Oct 2012

Who's Mr. Gorsky? If this is for real it's too funny to not pass on. dm

IN CASE YOU DIDN'T ALREADY KNOW THIS LITTLE TIDBIT OF TRIVIA,
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 MAN, ONE GIANT LEAP FOR MANKIND," WERE TELEVISED TO EARTH
AND HEARD BY MILLIONS.*

BUT JUST BEFORE HE RE-ENTERED THE LANDER, HE MADE THE ENIGMATIC REMARK - "GOOD LUCK, 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 PEOPLE QUESTIONED 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 NOW ANSWER THE QUESTION.

IN 1938, WHEN HE WAS A KID IN A SMALL MID-WESTERN TOWN , HE WAS PLAYING BASEBALL WITH A FRIEND IN THE BACKYARD. HIS FRIEND HIT THE BALL, WHICH LANDED
IN HIS NEIGHBOR'S YARD BY THEIR BEDROOM WINDOW. 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. It broke the place up.

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Who's Mr. Gorsky? If this is for real it's too funny to not pass on. dm (Original Post) madokie Oct 2012 OP
Good story warrior1 Oct 2012 #1
Are you sure madokie Oct 2012 #2
Snopes says it's not true pinboy3niner Oct 2012 #6
My apologies madokie Oct 2012 #7
Long-time urban legend... regnaD kciN Oct 2012 #3
One of the great urban legends. nolabear Oct 2012 #4
Just my luck, sorry madokie Oct 2012 #5
Someone emailed me that story in 1994. Nye Bevan Oct 2012 #8
The version I saw (prior to 1994) said "blow job". HopeHoops Oct 2012 #10
Sorry, but that's been debunked. I don't know who Mr. Gorsky is, but the story is fake. HopeHoops Oct 2012 #9

madokie

(51,076 posts)
7. My apologies
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 05:38 PM
Oct 2012

I knew I should have run it past Snopes first. Oh well, maybe it took someones mind off all the bad news of late for a second or two.

Nye Bevan

(25,406 posts)
8. Someone emailed me that story in 1994.
Tue Oct 9, 2012, 06:07 PM
Oct 2012

One of the first urban legends I ever heard.

And BTW it's supposed to be "oral sex", not just "sex".

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