# Just once, in 1960 - An SDMB meme passes on. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 1, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-once-in-1960-an-sdmb-meme-passes-on/470628 "2008-11-01T20:49:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Rhubarb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/59ef9b/32.png) [@Rhubarb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhubarb)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-once-in-1960-an-sdmb-meme-passes-on/470628/1 "2008-11-01T20:49:19Z")
Jacques Piccard, the explorer who piloted a bathyscaphe to the bottom of the Marianas Trench in 1960 passed away at the age of 86 today. [AP link](http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iJJGGs8ymm9Ajgosihq2Vt-jtvmAD9469HQO0). I think this is the first time I’ve seen the subject of an SDMB inside joke make the news. Apparently, he only went there once. For 20 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-once-in-1960-an-sdmb-meme-passes-on/470628/2 "2008-11-01T21:06:50Z")
Swiss explorer [Jacques Piccard](http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news_digest/Deep_sea_adventurer_Jacques_Piccard_is_dead.html?siteSect=104&sid=9917799&cKey=1225554764000&ty=nd) died today. He is one of the two men who went to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. Once. For 20 minutes. In 1960. ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-once-in-1960-an-sdmb-meme-passes-on/470628/3 "2008-11-01T21:09:25Z")
Shit :mad: Beaten by 18 minutes. Would a kind mod please close this thread. Sorry for the bother. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-once-in-1960-an-sdmb-meme-passes-on/470628/4 "2008-11-01T21:14:00Z")
What a shame. Killed by a 1920s sty Oh never mind ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-once-in-1960-an-sdmb-meme-passes-on/470628/5 "2008-11-01T21:33:03Z")
Did you hear that ocean explorer Jacques Piccard recently died? ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-once-in-1960-an-sdmb-meme-passes-on/470628/6 "2008-11-01T21:35:15Z")
I wonder if he’s going to be buried at sea… and where? ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-once-in-1960-an-sdmb-meme-passes-on/470628/7 "2008-11-01T21:42:09Z")
> [@runner pat](#): > > I wonder if he’s going to be buried at sea… and where? I expect it’ll be a short ceremony. Maybe under a half hour. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-once-in-1960-an-sdmb-meme-passes-on/470628/8 "2008-11-01T21:42:42Z")
> [@detop](#): > > Shit :mad: Beaten by 18 minutes. If only you’d waited two more minutes… ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-once-in-1960-an-sdmb-meme-passes-on/470628/9 "2008-11-01T22:06:17Z")
Turns out it was a false alarm. At the funeral, Piccard abruptly sat up in the casket and cried “Gotcha ya!” ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2008, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-once-in-1960-an-sdmb-meme-passes-on/470628/10 "2008-11-01T22:16:46Z")
And then handed out pie. ---
**Author:** ![freekalette](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/50afbb/32.png) [@freekalette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freekalette)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2008, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-once-in-1960-an-sdmb-meme-passes-on/470628/11 "2008-11-02T01:05:33Z")
_goes to hell for laughing hysterically_ ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Nader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Darth\_Nader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Nader)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2008, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-once-in-1960-an-sdmb-meme-passes-on/470628/12 "2008-11-02T09:18:12Z")
Is that why it smells like burning dog in here? ---
**Author:** ![detop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@detop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/detop)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2008, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/just-once-in-1960-an-sdmb-meme-passes-on/470628/13 "2008-11-02T09:20:46Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > If only you’d waited two more minutes… Story of my life. Premature postulation ☹