What I like best about this is that we know Eliot doesn’t commit hair-trigger violence over minor things – if someone bumps into him and spills his coffee he’s likely to be annoyed, but he’s not going to automatically break their arms.
Which means that what’s happening here is Hardison, in bringing up the coffee, is giving Eliot explicit permission to break arms, and Eliot is playing into it. And the only real reason for playing into the coffee schtick is that it will amuse Hardison.
While Sam makes a valid point, I think it’s also worth noting that something being a terrible idea has, historically, stopped very few humans from Doing The Thing. As evidenced by emergency rooms across the country.
Hey, guys, maybe it’s actually a votive, like it says. But of a butt plug. (You cannot tell me the Greeks and Romans didn’t make butt plug offerings.)
The Son of Man
Girl With a Pearl Earring
Scream
The Creation of Adam
The Mona Lisa
Vincent Van Gogh, Self Portrait
A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte
On the one hand, CDR is Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, so he hardly speaks for all of NASA.
On the other hand, CDR is Jim Lovell, the commander of the Apollo 13 mission, whose SPACESHIP EXPLODED and he still got all his crew home safely, so if he wants to call it a sandwich and put ketchup on it I’m not gonna argue with him.
On deeper consideration, however, I think we need to know what an Astronaut Hot Dog looks like, because if he’s putting a hot dog between two pieces of toasted bread rather than in a bun, the appellation of “sandwich” (which, remember, is not actually a noun, but is in fact an adjective) is appropriate.
But when I google “astronaut food hot dog” and variations thereof all I get is a bunch of bullshit clip art and some truly terrible recipes and also admittedly, one of Chris Hadfield, global hero, being charming as usual.
There is a question we have to answer before the discourse can proceed!
Ooh, I can answer that @copperbadge – astronaut food is one of my favorite trial-and-error parts of the space program. Here’s a NASA paper on it!
Based on this, on Apollo 13, Lovell would’ve had at his disposal “wet-pack frankfurters” and “irradiated rye, white, or cheese bread units” (Table 3), but no traditional buns.
I think we can safely conclude the good Commander was, indeed, eating a hot dog sandwich.
One, I KNEW someone would know the answer to this and I am DELIGHTED to know that we have a Space Food Side of Tumblr.
Two, I feel incredibly vindicated that he was, in fact, eating a hot dog sandwich.
For this and for your service to the causes of science and space nerdery, Jim Lovell, we salute you and your hot dog sandwich with catsup, wherever you are.
He’s still around and was making public appearances as recently as 2017, so listen, y’all, if you get a chance to ask Jim Lovell a question, please ask him if he remembers which bread he used for his hot dog sandwich while in motherfuckin’ space.
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Okay don’t use profanity, though, the man is a national hero, let’s show some respect.
Oh my god, nobody pull Jim Lovell into the internet’s dumb debate about what constitutes a sandwich. We cannot be asking one of 24 men ever to fly to the moon what kind of bread he ate his hot dog on. 😀
Let’s face it, he’d much rather be asked about a sandwich than cornered by yet another conspiracy theorist telling him the moon landing was fake.
The comic you like came out this week. It came out last week. It will come out the week after. It won’t be seen again for another 3 months.
Everything is presented as status quo shattering and game changing. Game changing and status quo shattering IS the Status Quo.
It Is a Big Deal that Captain Marvel is a woman now. You remember the last Captain Marvel was a woman. No one else does.
You read a comic you purchased today. It feels like it already happened. You don’t have this comic, do you?
Those two characters hate each other but are best friends. Everyone wants them to kiss. What is real? What isn’t?
You read your favorite comic. Nothing happens. But everything happens as well.
Written by Brian Michael Bendis is on every issue cover. You can’t remember a time a book you read wasn’t by Brian, Michael, or Bendis.
You read a comic you purchased today. It feels like it already happened. You don’t have this comic, do you?
That issue you’ve been looking forward to for the past three months finally came out. You read it. Nothing is the same. You don’t remember this world. Did this comic exist three months ago? Your memory is failing.
A prominent gay superhero gets married. You’ve never heard of their spouse-to-be. Who are they? Have they appeared in a comic before?
You pick up Avengers #1. You picked up an Avengers #1 last week. There is another next month. Half of your Marvel collection are #1s. Does the number two exist in the Marvel Universe?
You read a comic you purchased today. It feels like it already happened. You don’t have this comic, do you?
Wolverine is on every cover. So is Deadpool. It’s gritty but there’s a 4th wall shattering pop culture reference involving chimichangas and Canada indirectly.
Does anything exist outside of New York?
Who the hell is Bucky?
Your comic issue has a decimal. Is it a full comic? Where does X-Force Vol 4 #1.INH.NOW.ULT.1 compared to X-Force Vol 4 #1.NOW.1.ULT.
Do Fractions even exist in the Marvel Universe anymore?
What’s a Spider-Gwen?
You think you see Uncle Ben. He is a clone. Clones are all the rage.
#1.NOW.ULT.INH.1? How do numbers work in the Marvel Universe
You heard about this book a year ago by your favorite up and coming writer but now He’s Brian Michael Bendis. Do all writers end up merging with Brian Michael Bendis?
You see a Marvel Movie. It’s your favorite. The next one will be your favorite too. And the one after that.
You’ve heard of other comics by other companies. You don’t read them. They don’t have Marvel on the cover. But you hear rumblings of a Bat-Man. Who gets bitten by a radioactive bat?
This list relaunches with the same creative team. It relaunches again next month.
You are now obsessed with Bucky.
Every superhero is now named Gwen. There is a Spider-Gwen, a Gwenpool, Captain Gwenmerica, Iron Gwen, The Ingwenible Hulk. Bucky Gwen.
You can’t wait for the next Unbeatable Squirrel-Gwen #1
Things I need: An AU where Bucky hosts a youtube channel cooking anything and everything and his commentary has this dry sassy humor.
He’d have a different apron each episode ranging from the plain, ones with puns, ones with various other sayings, and ones with various patterns.
Sometimes he’d vlog while visiting a market or something, he’d point to a freezer full of meat and be all “welp guess they finally found that winter soldier guy”
“how does this dude wield a knife so well”
“where does this guy get all his aprons”
things i knead
Can we somehow combine this with Eliot Spencer guest starring on the show? In his own punny apron and scary good knife skills? Pretty please?
“And today, we’re going to show you how to break down a chicken.”
“Make sure your knives are clean of any foreign matter first also. Cross-contamination is a thing.”
“How did you get foreign matter on your knife today?”
“Don’t ask. Let’s just say the guy now has a very distinctive walk that will let Interpol nail him shortly.”
knitting in the dark 