The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #32479   Message #427590
Posted By: Rick Fielding
28-Mar-01 - 11:37 AM
Thread Name: BS: Did We really land on the Moon?
Subject: RE: BS: Did We really land on the Moon?
I was sitting in the lobby of The Welcome Hotel in downtown St John Newfoundland when the Yanks landed. There were about 25 of us crowded around the TV. It was my first tour of our Easternmost Province, and I was in the process of being emotionally blown away by everything "Newfy", including the unusual situation of having the WHOLE audience know the words to every song. At least HALF the locals in the TV lounge loudly laughed at the IDEA that Neil Armstrong was REALLY setting foot on the moon. The one comment I remember to this day, came from the fisherman sitting next to me. "You mainlanders will believe ANYTHING"!

The great problem (for me) is that when people MAKE conspiracies out of stuff like this, or Elvis, etc. it obscures the completely legit ones like Roswell and "the magic bullet".

Rick