"One small step for man..." grammar Nazis needed

cleanbluesky · 1 Oct 2006 at 20:24

Vanilla said:
I give it around 10 years before the PC mob change it to 'one small step for humankind' os something similar.

They'd need a time machine

Vanilla · 1 Oct 2006 at 20:28

cleanbluesky said:
They'd need a time machine

If you change the words in a textbook and how it's read when people refer to it on tv sooner or later people just forget and it becomes another pub quiz question.

Meridian · 1 Oct 2006 at 22:40

Gilly said:
Shamelessly stolen from Eddie Izzard

Which he shamelessly stole from someone else - I first heard it in about 1991. It's also probably wrong - see this discussion.

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Caerdydd · 1 Oct 2006 at 22:52

Why does anyone give a hoot!

Everyone knew what he meant. It was a very appropriate phrase.

(PS. this isnt a dig at the people posting this thread, but at the people who criticized it in the first place)

VeNT · 1 Oct 2006 at 23:28

some people have too much time on their hands.

atleast I get an excuse to post this!

phykell · 2 Oct 2006 at 00:38

seek said:
i don't think he meant a step as in walking...

Err, I think he did!!!

Perhaps greenlizard0 can put your gaff into his sig now

Visage · 2 Oct 2006 at 09:23

Mik3 said:
Man walked on the moon