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I'm actually surprised that they show such a tame sense of humor...
They knew that they were being recorded.
Not exactly private.
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right. they were under pressure to use pg words and references.


of course on occasion they slipped. Fazor is right too, those guys joked around a lot. Anyone read Eugene Cernan's book? Great storyteller and he used colorful words.
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My favorite example of astronut sense of humour was that the backup crew for apollo 14 had made it's patch, a parody of the official one. http://genedorr.com/patches/Apollo/Ap14.html
Well the backup crew was the one of the last to have acess to the of the lunar module before lift off, and they sowed a whole bunch all over the place, even in the 'lunar rickshaw".
Arguably the greatest prank ever done in space. Unless anyone knows another one.
A second place prize might go to Gus Grissom and John Young's corned beef sandwich on Gemini 3. As often happens with humor, the sandwich, along with Grissom's name for the Gemini capsule, got them in trouble with TPTB.
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They knew that they were being recorded.

After the Apollo 10 slip-up when the LM went briefly out of control, the crews were warned to watch their language.
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..which is kinda hard to do, moments after staging, closer to the Lunar surface than anyone's ever been, and your spaceship is doing things you're not telling it to do...vigorously!
...a natural human response, to be expected under such a situation. Inappropriate? No, just test pilots doing what they do. How do you "script" something like this in the 60's??
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Sure: test pilots wouldn't be what they are without the colorful metaphors. I've said worse things than that when my horizon stopped being horizontal unexpectedly. The response wasn't out of character or inappropriate to the situation, but inappropriate only to the new audience.
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My favorite example of astronut sense of humour was that the backup crew for apollo 14 had made it's patch, a parody of the official one. http://genedorr.com/patches/Apollo/Ap14.html
Well the backup crew was the one of the last to have acess to the of the lunar module before lift off, and they sowed a whole bunch all over the place, even in the 'lunar rickshaw".
Arguably the greatest prank ever done in space. Unless anyone knows another one.
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After the Apollo 10 slip-up when the LM went briefly out of control, the crews were warned to watch their language.


both involved Eugene Cernan. Quite a character, and by far the best story teller/writer of the Apollo bunch.
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Reminds me of an article some reporter wrote about trying out our local aquarium's new shark cage dive.
"Okay, so my mask's microphone is connected to the PA... and everything I say, everybody will here... but they're putting me in a shark tank! And the aquarium is full of kids!
So, I just didn't say anything."
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Here's a whole heap of astronaut jokes.

Many of them are very dry or said in a deadpan manner. Here's one that's similar to the one about "visitors":

Apollo 17 - EVA-2 - Traverse to Station 3 - Alien tracks?
Spacecraft Films' Apollo 17 DVD No. 3 - EVA 2 - Traverse to Station 3 - 32:02
144:18:01 Schmitt: Hey! We crossed somebody's tracks!
144:18:07 Parker (over Gene): Hope they look like yours.
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