six point five million pounds...of thrust

[aastrotech]

I was a kid when Apollo 11 went up. I wasn't aware of a lot of certain things. But I do recall a lot of promotion prior to the mission of the TV coverage that was to occur during the mission. One of the commercials had a jingle that had the line somthing like "six point five million pounds...of thrust".

One day one of my older friends sang the line and made a lewd movement. I became aware at that time that there was somthing about the world of which I knew nothing.

I want to ask the older members if they recall the jingle and the line and if there was a social discussion at the time (around the water cooler) of an inuendo of that line or if there was some discussion of whether the inuendo was intentional by either NASA or the networks. Or maybe it was just my friend being lewd.

[R.A.F.]

Sounds like typical junior high school humor.
Personally I don't recall any lewd "jingles" related to this.

...and I fail to see what the conspiracy here is.

[mike alexander]

It would have been more like seven point five million pounds... of thrust, anyway.

I was in college at the time of Apollo 11, and my recollection is that commercials leading up to it tended to be solemn (I recall a Gulf Oil add showing a helicopter shot down at construction on Pad 39B as the announcer intoned "This is the Free World's first Spaceport"). I doubt that any such double-entendre would have snuck into ads in the 1967-1969 are.

[aastrotech]

Well the commercial certainly did exist. If you don't remember the commercial you certainly don't remember any social comentary that went with it.

The conspiracy is that it was an intentional inuendo.

[novaderrik]

I was a kid when Apollo 11 went up. I wasn't aware of a lot of certain things. But I do recall a lot of promotion prior to the mission of the TV coverage that was to occur during the mission. One of the commercials had a jingle that had the line somthing like "six point five million pounds...of thrust".

One day one of my older friends sang the line and made a lewd movement. I became aware at that time that there was somthing about the world of which I knew nothing.

I want to ask the older members if they recall the jingle and the line and if there was a social discussion at the time (around the water cooler) of an inuendo of that line or if there was some discussion of whether the inuendo was intentional by either NASA or the networks. Or maybe it was just my friend being lewd.

one could respond like "The Todd" on one episode of "Scrubs" when someone tells him to stop all the rude sexual inuendos..

[mike alexander]

Well the commercial certainly did exist. If you don't remember the commercial you certainly don't remember any social comentary that went with it.

The conspiracy is that it was an intentional inuendo.


Well, then, trot it out. It's quite possible my mind is gone, but if you are dead nuts certain the commercial existed please go find it. In the meantime, see the USA in your Chevrolet.

[aastrotech]

Nah, your mind is probably ok, (of course we can never be sure of that sort of thing) and you can't be expected to remember every commercial you ever saw. I've even read posts on the internet claiming the Gulf Oil Company paper LM is an urban myth. It's a real common problem amongst those who think they know everything.