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"There have been allegations made, and we need to find out who the alligator is."

Drunken(?) astronauts

E.E.
Army
Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:49 AM

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"There have been allegations made, and we need to find out who the alligator is."

Who said that? It's unattributed. It sounds like a "Bushism," but it's apparently not. Mr. Gilson should make it clear if it's his own statement, a quote from NASA Administrator Michael Griffin, or from someone else entirely.

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Contract Specialist
DCMA
Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:50 PM
Bush, Gilson - what's the difference?

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admin asst
dod
Tue Sep 11, 2007 7:58 AM
Hey contract specialist, why don't you blame your neighbor's stubbed toe on the President? Considering you're a partisan hack that's just what we should expect..

Re: Drunken(?) astronauts

Contract Specialist
DCMA
Tue Sep 11, 2007 10:20 AM
Hey Admin Asst, that's an intelligent response. You must be one of the infamous seventeen percent. From one partisan hack to another...

Re: Drunken(?) astronauts

admin asst
dod
Tue Sep 11, 2007 11:35 AM
and just who do you think I'm partisan too? Just because I point that you're biased doesn't indicate my bias, if I am biased.

Partisanship itself is the problem. Come on now, THINK!

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Contract Specialist
DCMA
Tue Sep 11, 2007 5:55 PM
"Who do you think I'm partisan too"? I learned in grammar school English the difference between "to" and "too" (also "two"). You have no idea what my leanings are, if any, & you totally missed the point of my original comment re: Gilson. Why don't you THINK about proper spelling and usage of prepositions?

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admin asst
dod
Tue Sep 11, 2007 8:52 PM
Do you really expect anybody to believe your leanings aren’t exposed by your original comment?? Come on now, we weren’t born yesterday. It was obviously meant as a partisan cheap shot, don’t insult our intelligence by pretending it wasn’t.

Why don’t you address your own bias instead of nitpicking on typos?

Re: Drunken(?) astronauts

Human Resources Specialist
Department of Treasury
Wed Sep 12, 2007 9:07 AM
DOD Adminstrative Assistant, Exactly what is your point? The President himself has mocked his own lack of grace with the English language and comedians and commentators on all sides have occasionally poked fun at his malapropisms and grammatical meaderings. When I was young, Vaughan Meader made a career, albeit temporarary because of the assassination, of lampooning President Kennedy and his family. Rich Little had fun with Nixon, Chevy Chase with Ford, and several commedians made careers off imitations of Bill Clinton's touchy feely empathy and love for fast food. I fail to see how joking about the President's occasional inability to articulate or misuse of words is partisan, but I do see the immediate rush to judgment that such a comment must be politically biased as indicative of an overly defensive bias and a lack of a sense of humor.

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Nameless, Faceless Nobody
DOD
Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:08 AM
Personally, I enjoyed the humor underlying this comment. Sometimes you must fight gravity with levity. (No, this is NOT original to me. I only wish I knew who to give the credit to.)

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Contract Specialist
DCMA
Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:10 AM
Why don't you address YOUR own bias? "Mission accomplished!", now let's all go back to sleep.

Retractions?

Contract Specialist
DCMA
Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:51 AM

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Should we hold our breath as we wait for the various news media to proclaim their retractions of the salacious headline stories of the drunken astronauts just as prominently as they did the originals? If you work for the government, you are assumed to be guilty until proven innocent, and even then the public always looks at us askance, with the thought that "where there is smoke, there must be fire".

alligator

software engineer
navair
Mon Sep 10, 2007 10:18 AM

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I'm sure your use of "alligator" was a pun on "alleger".

New Titles

Fed Peasant
A BIG One
Mon Sep 10, 2007 10:23 AM

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Such as person should be titled the "fireman" or the "fixer", in the PR game.

ALLIGATORS

Instructor
DHS
Mon Sep 10, 2007 10:34 AM

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Alligators near the Kennedy Space Center have been observed watching everything that occurs there. It's about time they spoke up.

Drinking and Flying

IT Specialist
DLA
Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:41 AM

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If I was going up into space strapped to 1000s of gallons of rocket fuel, I don't think I would be sober either. :-))

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Reformed Conservative
DFAS
Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:00 AM
Maybe the astronauts were getting blissed out on rocket fuel fumes? :D

Alligators

Human Resources Specialist
Department of Treasury
Wed Sep 12, 2007 9:23 AM

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If the alligators' "alligatorizations" are true, perhaps, a wing of a building at the space center could be dedicated to them as an honor to their ethical judgment on the job. My suggestion is to name it for Steve Irwin, an advocate for alligators and crocodiles everywhere. Of course, there would be no alcoholic beverages served at the opening ceremony and subsequent holiday parties.

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