Wonkette Can Kiss My Ass
As Keith Cowing of NASA Watch notes, Wonkette’s tried sophomoric humor and missed.
Now, I make phallic jokes about rockets all the time: my favorite is to point at the Saturn V in Huntsville and solemnly say, “Huntsville: Our rockets are bigger than your rockets.” But …
You guys feel free to enjoy these vaguely dirty (in a sophomoric way) photos from the NASA “We’re Still Incompetent†presser, courtesy Getty Images. We couldn’t pick just one to snicker at, so there are more after the jump.
Even if the shuttle does blow up tomorrow, we’re still not working.
Yeah, I think they missed.
Glad to see they find the potential deaths of seven astronauts funny. Is this how one becomes a famous blogger?
Mind you, some of the photos are pretty funny, but they really could have done without that throwaway comment at the end.
July 3rd, 2006 at 21:30See, exactly! I don’t mind making fun of the foam issue: this piece almost assuredly wouldn’t have done anything to the Orbiter if it had hit it. I really don’t think that this is going to be an issue for flight. Make all the size and ED jokes that you want … but man.
Now, I know that Nick Denton just shook up Gawker Media, and I know that such things inspire gallows humor, but this takes things a bit far.
July 3rd, 2006 at 21:32