"Houston, we have a problem."

We've all heard it a thousand times - in the news, in conversations as a sort of cliche, and even on ads for the movie Apollo 13. IT'S A MISQUOTE! ALSJ shows no such comment from the crew during the flight. Here is the relevant section of the transcript:

55:52:58 - CapCom: "13, we've got one more item for you, when you get a chance. We'd like you to stir up your cryo tanks. In addition, I have shaft and trunnion..."
55:53:06 - Swigert: "Okay." (over CapCom)
55:53:07 - CapCom: "...for looking at comet (J. C.) Bennett (19691), if you need it."
55:53:12 - Swigert: "Okay. Stand by."
55:55:20 (9:07 PM CT) - Swigert: "Okay, Houston, we've had a problem here."
55:55:28 - CapCom: "This is Houston. Say again please."
55:55:35 - Lovell: "Ah, Houston, we've had a problem. (pause) We've had a main B bus undervolt."
55:55:42 - CapCom (Jack Lousma): "Roger. Main B undervolt. Okay stand by 13, we're looking at it."

See? It's a misquote! That's always annoyed me, just thought I'd point it out. :wink:

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Elementary my dear Watson.


Actually about 80% of all well known quotes are misquoted. So frankly my Dear, I don't give a darn.

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Enter the World of Athran

Say it a gain, Wolf

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Beam me up, Scotty!

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"Frankly my dear, I'm going to build a dam".
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Yeah. I kind of like it. It means we can feel good about ourselves because we know that everyone thinks wrong about things.

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Holmes NEVER said that (at least in in the Conan Doyle Novels)
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Yeah. I'm pretty sure this got started in those awful movies with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. #-o

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--Doug

"When your statics problem becomes a dynamics problem, you're in trouble." --me

Moor's Law: "As you go from freshman engineering to Ph.D., the amount of work required per credit hour doubles approximately every 18 months." --me, inspired by Prof. Scott Moor

Wasn't that the point? This is about misquotes right?

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You did read the rest of it? Right????? :roll: :P

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It must be fun to lead a life completely unburdened by reality. --- JayUtah

You can't reason an irrational person out of an irrational belief. --- Noclevername

Apollo: The History and the Hoax
Enter the World of Athran

I'm afraid I don't understand the point you're trying to make here, Master.

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--Doug

"When your statics problem becomes a dynamics problem, you're in trouble." --me

Moor's Law: "As you go from freshman engineering to Ph.D., the amount of work required per credit hour doubles approximately every 18 months." --me, inspired by Prof. Scott Moor

Okay, I think I get it now--you were commenting that an earlier poster missed the point that it was supposed to be a misquote. I'll admit that I didn't pick up the earlier poster's mistake when I read the post I was quoting--guess I got too excited about having an opportunity to knock a dreadful Sherlock Holmes adaptation. ops: However, your point would have been clearer if you'd followed up to the earlier post, and not to mine.

As a side note, I'm not sure that this qualifies as a misquote--I think it qualifies as a completely bogus quote, as SH never says anything remotely like it in any of Doyle's stories.

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--Doug

"When your statics problem becomes a dynamics problem, you're in trouble." --me

Moor's Law: "As you go from freshman engineering to Ph.D., the amount of work required per credit hour doubles approximately every 18 months." --me, inspired by Prof. Scott Moor

I don't ever recall him ever saying "The Game Is Afoot" either. Darn movies inserting stereotypes in our favourite characters.

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I believe he says something like "Watson, the answer was elementary." But I'd have to check it out agin to be totally sure.

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It must be fun to lead a life completely unburdened by reality. --- JayUtah

You can't reason an irrational person out of an irrational belief. --- Noclevername

Apollo: The History and the Hoax
Enter the World of Athran

"Alas. Poor Yoric. I knew him well." <---- wrong!

"Alas. Poor Yoric. I knew him, horatio." <----- correct! (or pretty darn near anyways, since I'm too lazy to google the quote to make sure).

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Another frequent misquote is the line from Casablanca, which IIRC is "play it Sam" and not the oft quoted "play it again Sam".

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Look down the LC topic list. You'll see a recently locked thread that went OT.

Neil Armstrong maintains to this day he's been misquoted on his famous first words on the moon.

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Clavius Moon Base

Hadn't we agreed to maintain he said, "One small step f'ra man..."?

Oops, lost track of where I was. I thought I was in BABBling. Sorry. ops:

I've wondered about the long pause he makes between "...for (a) man" and "one giant leap...". It's almost as if he realized he messed up the line and is contemplating what to do next. Of course I'm probably reading too much into it.

After a previous discussion of the Armstrong quote, I downloaded the monologue in question and listened to it over and over.

DISCLAIMER: Yes, this was an Internet download, not the original tapes. END DISCLAIMER

Anyway -- I cannot hear the disputed "a". I've tried and tried, but I just don't hear it. I reconcile it this way: Armstrong did indeed say the "a" in a somewhat swallowed Midwestern fashion, as we earlier concluded. He said it. He heard himself say it. But the resolution of the equipment was such that the "a" completely vanished by the time it got to Earth.

Now, I remember hearing him say this in real-time. I watched him step off the ladder and say it (or was I watching the feed from Area 51? ). My reaction then was, "What'd he say?" At the time, I thought he'd muffed his lines at one of the greatest moments of human history.

Neil -- if you're reading this -- sorry, friend. You may have said it, but that's not what we heard.

Misquote of Spitfire's signature:

"Dog is dead - Nietzsche."
"Then bury it - Landlord"

Oh wait, i guess that's just more dyslexia.

The Abbey Grange (Return of Sherlock Holmes)! The entire quote is something like "Come Watson, come! The game is afoot. Not a word, my man, into your clothes and come".

He also says elementary quite often, just not suffixed by "my dear Watson".

Anyway, it's true... in the clip I have, it's "Houston, we've had a problem", both by Swigert and Lowell.

Thanks. I could of made it clearer but it would be that unclear because you see though your own eyes. I knew what I ment.

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