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How the West Wasn't Won

Posted by Hemos on from the up-up-up-and-away dept.

Nigel Assbackwards writes "Finally, after years of being furtively passed between trusted friends, the legendary NASA satire "How the West Wasn't Won" is available at spacefuture. And Oh!, if only all space agencies were as loud and as totally ace as WideGroup's MirCorp intro."

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  1. The moral of the story by ohboy-sleep · · Score: 5, Funny

    Reading the little fable, I wished some of the "wagonauts" brought back some subtlety to give to the author.

    1. Re:The moral of the story by micahmicahmicah · · Score: 5, Funny

      "It goes on for too long, and while amusing at first, quickly becomes tedious."

      Which would run in a direct parallel to the Space Program.

  2. annoying flash intro by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny


    The mircorp flash intro needs to have an epileptic seizure warning.

    My cat was looking over my shoulder and it is now vibrating across the tile floor into the other room.

  3. Story needs compression by jswinth · · Score: 5, Funny

    Umm... Could I have my 30 minutes back? Couldn't the author have made is point in like 5 minutes worth of reading? Maybe this guy is ex-NASA and dosn't know how to be economical with words.

    1. Re:Story needs compression by toastyman · · Score: 5, Funny
      Here... One of the few useful bits of Microsoft Word is the "Autosummarize..." feature. Insert wordy airbag story. Set desired compression level (in this case "10 sentences or less"). Read, and get almost everything the original had in far less time. Here goes:

      NAFA got to work. NAFA called the people who were to go on these "missions" "WAGGONAUTS".

      Then NAFA mounted a second "mission".

      Then NAFA mounted a third "mission".

      Then NAFA mounted a fourth "mission".

      Then NAFA mounted a fifth "mission".

      Then NAFA mounted a sixth "mission".

      So NAFA mounted a seventh "mission". ONLY NAFA's (and FAFA's) "waggonauts" could go out into the desert.

      Then NAFA had another setback.

      Ok, so it doesn't quite have the same prose, but it's just as "funny" as the original and took 1/20th the time to read.

      Better? :)

  4. Oh wow, you're accepting these? by fobbman · · Score: 5, Funny

    I get emails that are "passed between trusted friends" all the time. If I had known that Slashdot was interested in them earlier I would have sent them in!