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Playmate Photo From Apollo 12 Up For Auction
Kilrah_il writes "When the Apollo 12 crew left Earth for a trip to the Moon, they did not know that the ground crew hid a surprise in one of the command module lockers: a calendar photo of Playboy Playmate DeDe Lind. Now this card is offered for auction, after being kept in the personal collection of command module pilot Richard Gordon, who added the following memo: 'This is to certify that the accompanying 4.5" x 6.25" cue card did, indeed, accompany me on my trip to the moon in the Command Module Yankee Clipper aboard the historic Apollo 12 lunar landing mission. This cue card, which flew with me to the moon, has been in my sole possession and part of my personal space collection since my return from the moon in 1969 aboard America's second lunar landing mission, and it remains one of the all-time greatest Apollo era astronaut "Gotcha's!"' For those interested, the minimum bid is $1000." Warning, contains pixelated nudity.
Why, somebody might be confronted with their Puritannical objection to the human form.
"If God intended us to be naked, we'd be born that way!" - Oscar Wilde.
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities. - Voltaire
how to get people to read the article.
nobody can hear you fap!
"Houston, I'm sending both of the other Astronauts out for a spacewalk. I found this Playmate photo here, and need some private time to have a wank. Ha! All you 'mile high club' folks can kiss my hairy ass. I'm halfway to the moon and having 'one off the wrist'! Beat that!"
Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
Does that include people who are offended by other peoples morals?
Another notable Playboy pinup is Nov. 1972's Lena Söderberg whos image has been used in an example in image processing papers since 1973.
Remain calm ma'am, a waambulance and two morality police cars are on the way!
"When information is power, privacy is freedom" - Jah-Wren Ryel
As a professional care-troll, your lack of commitment to care-trolling offends me. Do you really expect anyone reading this pathetic attempt at trolling to believe you actually care about this issue? You, sir, bring disrepute upon the house of troll.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
They are photoshopped to remove blemishes, expand breasts, erase fat knees, give them flatter butts, and so on.
Give... them... FLATTER butts? Flatter butts, really, that's what men want today, girls who look like prepubescent boys? Sorry, I'm with Sir Mix-a-Lot on this one.
- None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
Playboy's golden age was in the 70s. Those women were usually stunning with or without the paint and airbrushing.
In the 90s something happened and the publishers started using less attractive women with a lot of cosmetic surgery and makeup applied, and manipulating them more.
Now, who reads Playboy any more? There's boobs in half the pages on the web, xkcd does the funny, rotten tomatoes handles the movies, and if you want to hear from Hef you can tweet him.
Oh, toddle off. As a member of the moral community, I can definitively say that the vast majority of us have no interesting in micromanaging your life.
Could you do us all a favour then and tell your "minority" to STFU? When you let them do all the talking, they'll naturally come to represent both them and you.
Getting back on topic, this story is more than a little disconcerting. I was raised to believe that the Moon landings represented the pinnacle of American gumption, values, and achievement. And now, all of these years later, we discover that this seminal event was corrupted by the presence of hardcore pornography. Maybe I shouldn't act surprised, but I always thought that the NASA astronauts were better people than that.
Read The Right Stuff. They weren't better men, they were adventurous men. Your mistake.
Linux, you magnificent bastard, I read the fucking manual!
He was alone in lunar orbit for more than a full day while Conrad and Bean landed on the moon. If he took advantage of his solitude to "rub one out", he probably would have done so while on the far side of the moon, where his biomed telemetry couldn't be monitored by Houston. :)
His crewmates also had some porn stashed with them on the moon. Playboy images were inserted into the lunar surface checklists used during the moonwalks.
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Warning, contains pixelated nudity
I appreciate the warning, so I won't waste time clicking on it - what with it being pixelated.
#DeleteChrome
You are not attracted to the unkempt jungle thatch of 60s era bush?
I thought the Bush era was 1988-1992 and then smaller Bush in 2000-2008.
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Lamness filter is crap. So to fill in more words... Blah Blaah Blaaah Blaaaah
Being AC and all, I can't tell if you are female or not. Could you please show us your tits?