# First Words on Mars – Funny & Serious replies welcome... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 4, 2011, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-words-on-mars-funny-serious-replies-welcome/595145 "2011-09-04T05:49:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-words-on-mars-funny-serious-replies-welcome/595145/101 "2011-09-07T15:57:55Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Flemish or Wallonian? 😃 I am so tired of answering this question on every damn job application… ---
**Author:** ![mrklutz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ebca7d/32.png) [@mrklutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrklutz)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-words-on-mars-funny-serious-replies-welcome/595145/102 "2011-09-07T16:37:12Z")
“Huh. That’s funny.” \ ---
**Author:** ![Shark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/73ab20/32.png) [@Shark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shark)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 5:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-words-on-mars-funny-serious-replies-welcome/595145/103 "2011-09-07T17:29:15Z")
Khaaaaaaan!!! ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-words-on-mars-funny-serious-replies-welcome/595145/104 "2011-09-07T18:39:38Z")
"You… put… your… …right foot in you put your right foot out you put your right foot in and you shake it all about!.." ---
**Author:** ![chappachula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@chappachula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chappachula)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-words-on-mars-funny-serious-replies-welcome/595145/105 "2011-09-07T18:48:29Z")
“Take me to your leader” ---
**Author:** ![Teufelblitz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@Teufelblitz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Teufelblitz)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-words-on-mars-funny-serious-replies-welcome/595145/106 "2011-09-07T18:50:29Z")
“Ok, everyone remember we’re parked in Goofy 13!” ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 7, 2011, 7:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-words-on-mars-funny-serious-replies-welcome/595145/107 "2011-09-07T19:10:19Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > “Kaor!” Okay, if I was going to go for something other than serious, it would be this one! Maybe I’d do it anyway. One could start a real fight by saying “I claim this planet in the name of my own, Jasoom!” ---
**Author:** ![X.L.Lent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/a5b964/32.png) [@X.L.Lent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/X.L.Lent)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 8:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-words-on-mars-funny-serious-replies-welcome/595145/108 "2011-09-08T08:37:45Z")
Landing craft on Mars surface to Earth: “Ah, Houstan, we are now aligned with Jupiter.” Earth to Mars landing craft: “Confirming Jupiter alignment with Mars. Initiating following procedures: peace guiding the planets, love steering the stars, age of Aquarius dawning.” ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-words-on-mars-funny-serious-replies-welcome/595145/109 "2011-09-08T14:28:16Z")
> [@X.L.Lent](#): > > Landing craft on Mars surface to Earth: “Ah, Houstan, we are now aligned with Jupiter.” > > Earth to Mars landing craft: “Confirming Jupiter alignment with Mars. Initiating following > procedures: peace guiding the planets, love steering the stars, age of Aquarius dawning.” 😃 Great, now I’m gonna have that song stuck in my head all day. ---
**Author:** ![Archeonomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Archeonomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Archeonomist)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-words-on-mars-funny-serious-replies-welcome/595145/110 "2011-09-08T16:43:41Z")
It doesn’t look like it did in the brochure. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-words-on-mars-funny-serious-replies-welcome/595145/111 "2011-09-08T16:51:24Z")
“We have made our first impression on Mars, now what impression will it make on us?” -Obscure book paraphrase ---
**Author:** ![tallcoldone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e9a140/32.png) [@tallcoldone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tallcoldone)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-words-on-mars-funny-serious-replies-welcome/595145/112 "2011-09-08T16:54:39Z")
It wasn’t me! [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RocketMan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RocketMan) ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-words-on-mars-funny-serious-replies-welcome/595145/113 "2011-09-08T16:59:41Z")
“…Okay. So the moon’s not made of cheese. I can live with that. But _this_…no Mars bars?!” ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 5:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-words-on-mars-funny-serious-replies-welcome/595145/114 "2011-09-08T17:51:00Z")
> [@tallcoldone](#): > > It wasn’t me! > > [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RocketMan](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RocketMan) There’s a weird, special place in my heart for that movie. * * * “I think I just peed a little.” ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-words-on-mars-funny-serious-replies-welcome/595145/115 "2011-09-08T23:46:54Z")
“Klaatu barada nikto _this_, motherfucker!” ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2011, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-words-on-mars-funny-serious-replies-welcome/595145/116 "2011-09-08T23:57:57Z")
“In this monumental step for Manki-- whoa . . . Okay . . . Hang on . . . Dammit, I dropped one of my contact lenses . . . Everyone step carefully, and help me look around.” ---
**Author:** ![VOW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/vow/32/3043_2.png) [@VOW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VOW)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-words-on-mars-funny-serious-replies-welcome/595145/117 "2011-09-09T02:17:24Z")
“No, no, no, just wait a Goddamned minute! I need to set the urn of Ray Bradbury’s ashes next to the Mars Lander and get a picture first!” ~VOW ---
**Author:** ![XRaeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/f14d63/32.png) [@XRaeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XRaeth)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-words-on-mars-funny-serious-replies-welcome/595145/118 "2011-09-09T03:53:22Z")
> [@cmyk](#): > > “Okay, if anyone’s gotta pee, better do it now… this is the last stop before Jupiter.” > > “This is **on** small step for _a_ man, one giant leap for mankind… Unlike _other_ astronauts, I say my first words correctly.” Did you mean “one”? or was the spelling mistake intentional to add irony, and I am now making a fool out of myself. I can never seem to tell the difference. ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-words-on-mars-funny-serious-replies-welcome/595145/119 "2011-09-09T04:51:47Z")
> [@XRaeth](#): > > Did you mean “one”? or was the spelling mistake intentional to add irony, and I am now making a fool out of myself. I can never seem to tell the difference. Shit, it was a typo! But the irony is still sweet, isn’t it? ---
**Author:** ![Triskadecamus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b19c9b/32.png) [@Triskadecamus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Triskadecamus)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2011, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-words-on-mars-funny-serious-replies-welcome/595145/120 "2011-09-09T05:13:26Z")
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