# 46 years ago today, for 20 minutes **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 23, 2006, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/46-years-ago-today-for-20-minutes/341232 "2006-01-23T08:40:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/46-years-ago-today-for-20-minutes/341232/21 "2006-01-24T14:37:00Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > But when, and for how long? Once, for 20 minutes. In 1960. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/46-years-ago-today-for-20-minutes/341232/22 "2006-01-24T14:43:13Z")
1. penis will ensue 2. when come back, bring pie 3. Hi, Opal! ---
**Author:** ![Lionne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Lionne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lionne)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/46-years-ago-today-for-20-minutes/341232/23 "2006-01-24T14:46:20Z")
> [@Ellen Cherry](#): > > 1. penis will ensue > 2. when come back, bring pie > 3. Hi, Opal! Make that POTATO pie! ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/46-years-ago-today-for-20-minutes/341232/24 "2006-01-24T15:18:07Z")
All your Marianas Trench are belong to us ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/46-years-ago-today-for-20-minutes/341232/25 "2006-01-24T16:01:55Z")
I, for one, welcome our new _Trieste_ overlords. ---
**Author:** ![Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a8b319/32.png) [@Spatial\_Rift\_47](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spatial_Rift_47)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/46-years-ago-today-for-20-minutes/341232/26 "2006-01-24T16:08:06Z")
Narrator: In A.D. 1960, Trieste was descending. Captain: What happen ? Mechanic: Somebody set up us the trench. Operator: We get signal. Captain: What ! Operator: Main screen turn on. Captain: It’s you !! Diatomaceous Ooze: How are you gentlemen !! Diatomaceous Ooze: All your Marianas Trench are belong to us. Diatomaceous Ooze: You are on the way to destruction. Captain: What you say !! Diatomaceous Ooze: You have no chance to survive make your time. Diatomaceous Ooze: Ha Ha Ha Ha … Operator: Captain!! Captain: Take off every salt!! Captain: You know what you doing. Captain: Move salt. Captain: For great justice. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/46-years-ago-today-for-20-minutes/341232/27 "2006-01-24T16:36:49Z")
Personally, I will be celebrating by eating a Trieste-kit dipped in Marinara. Tripler But only for twenty minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/46-years-ago-today-for-20-minutes/341232/28 "2006-01-24T16:47:06Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > Tripler > But only for twenty minutes. And who will you be after those 20 minutes are up? ---
**Author:** ![saoirse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@saoirse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saoirse)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/46-years-ago-today-for-20-minutes/341232/29 "2006-01-24T16:52:56Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > And who will you be after those 20 minutes are up? I guess we’ll find out soon. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/46-years-ago-today-for-20-minutes/341232/30 "2006-01-24T17:17:33Z")
> [@Spatial Rift 47](#): > > Of course by “diotamaceous ooze” you mean salt, and of course by “a little” you mean a layer 500 feet thick covering the entire Earth’s surface. I was thinking more of little souvenir vials. You know, “Actual Ooze from the deepest point in the ocean! Amaze your friends!” Kind of like they sell pieces of turf from old football stadiums. ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/46-years-ago-today-for-20-minutes/341232/31 "2006-01-24T17:19:27Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > And who will you be after those 20 minutes are up? Ooh, good one! I’ve never had a rhetorical question posed to me off of my “pre-sig”. Tripler Now I’m stumped. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/46-years-ago-today-for-20-minutes/341232/32 "2006-01-24T17:22:44Z")
> [@Tripler](#): > > Ooh, good one! I’ve never had a rhetorical question posed to me off of my “pre-sig”. > > Tripler > Now I’m stumped. so you’re the bottom part of a tree now? ---
**Author:** ![moonstarssun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9bd4f/32.png) [@moonstarssun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/moonstarssun)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/46-years-ago-today-for-20-minutes/341232/33 "2006-01-24T17:29:09Z")
Does anyone else find it oddly appropriate that yesterday was National Pie Day? What will we celebrate tomorrow? ---
**Author:** ![Tripler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripler/32/21807_2.png) [@Tripler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tripler)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/46-years-ago-today-for-20-minutes/341232/34 "2006-01-24T17:49:37Z")
> [@anyrose](#): > > so you’re the bottom part of a tree now? Only to get to the root of the question, my friend. Tripler My apologies. It’s getting late, and I need to leaf to go to bed. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/46-years-ago-today-for-20-minutes/341232/35 "2006-01-24T19:13:26Z")
> [@moonstarssun](#): > > Does anyone else find it oddly appropriate that yesterday was National Pie Day? When come back, bring diotamaceous ooze. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2006, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/46-years-ago-today-for-20-minutes/341232/36 "2006-01-24T19:15:57Z")
Wait, let me get this straight. For 20 minutes, I have to have trench mouth because 46 years ago someone took a bath in a spherical tub? Well…–mumbles something about going along with the crowd, even though the sores are killing me–… okay, I’m in. :eek: 😃 If the trench is deeper than 500 feet and the salt layer would only be 500 feet deep, would the salt layer fill in the bottom of the trench, therefore making for a gargantuan salt crevasse that would in fact be just the place to tuck a lime wedge the size of Costa Rica, for when the drinking ensues? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/46-years-ago-today-for-20-minutes/341232.md?page=1)