Okay...so this is another of those obvious targets but in fact it's just the old "love triangle" theme with a few twists thrown in (mental illness, adult diapers, mace, NASA etc.) This is the stuff of tabloid journalism, the bread and butter of the Jerry Springers, Maury Poviches, and Montel Williamses of our world. While these shows deal primarily with the lower socio-economic echelons of society the story in question deals with one of America's best and brightest, hence the heightened interest. It just goes to show, once again, that you can take the trash out of the trailer but you can't take the trailer out of the trash.......ummm no....you can take out of the trash....you can take the girl outta the trailer park but you can't take the trailer park outta the girl....
whatever!! My point is that there is a fine line between infatuation and mental illness and not a one of us is immune. Sit back and listen to what happened to me not too many years ago:
If you're a faithful Blob reader you'll recall my weekend tryst
(see may26th) with
one Michaelle Jean, at the time a well known journalist and today our Governor General. After our camping trip I stopped returning her emails and was soon going out with Phyllis. When the GG got wind of this she started peppering Phyll with late hour prank calls and even showed up at her place of work
(I believe she favoured a thong over the diaper) and tried to stab her with a syringe!Bottom line: Lisa Marie Nowak is just the latest in a long line of spurned, depressed, and smitten women. If she hadn't have been a diaper wearing astronaut we would have never heard of her.
one Michaelle Jean, at the time a well known journalist and today our Governor General. After our camping trip I stopped returning her emails and was soon going out with Phyllis. When the GG got wind of this she started peppering Phyll with late hour prank calls and even showed up at her place of work (I believe she favoured a thong over the diaper) and tried to stab her with a syringe!
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Tragic to be sure... Kudos for getting to the real jist of this story towards the end of your column. My guess is that Neal Armstrong and Marc Garneau are both asking themselves (like Tiger and Phil re. Michelle Wie).....Who the hell invited the chick?? This used to be a man's world...Jeez Yuri Gagarin must be rolling in his grave....Am I totally out of line here???
is it jist or gist?
Re: Jist or Gist-
Upon further review the correct spelling is "gist". Clearly The Pitt Tit (?) was getting confused with the word "jism".
BTW Pitt, that's a pretty archaic point of view and has been so ever since the dawn of the space program when "The Honeymooners" Ralph Kramden first coined the immortal words: "One of these days Alice, POW, right to the moon!"
You and others like you can find comfort in Buzz Aldrin's recent article for Atlantic Monthly: "In Space Nobody cares What Color Your Toenails Are" but in time you'll go the way of the dinosaurs. "Good riddance" I say! Until the next time I Blob remain your humble servant and defender of all things
be-boo-bed.
Thanks for the spell check there humble servant.
I'm intrigued by this word "archaic"...not sure what it means but it sounds good and strong and I appreciate the compliment.
I'm not here to "dis" your buddy Buzz but.....puleeze...with a name like that??? Don't tell me that an All-American alpha male kind of guy would publish in a "monthly" magazine.....sounds kind of girly to me.
Check out "Apollo 11-The Inside Story" (Simon & Shuster) to get the real story on all of this.
8 weeks alone in space....4 buffed young men....you do the math.
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