Back in 1960, I told Mariana “Honey, let me be your salty dog.” So I went down on her in a trench in that salt. For twenty minutes. And she still charged me $100. No wonder it was just once.
Bitch.
Marley23, Eve can’t post right now, but I’m sure she gave credit to Dorothy Parker for laying those Yale prom dates.
Mariana’s Trench makes me think of Martha’s. Has anyone seen the Martha Washington Monument? It goes 555 feet into the ground.
555 feet? That’s a respectable depth. Have humans ever visited it? When and for how long?
All I know is that The General and His Mrs have been dead and buried for at least 20 minutes, since 1960.
My displeasure at everyone shitting all over my OP soon gave way to amusement at the seemingly endless, witty variations on the same theme.
Now, however, I must add pride to amusement as this has officially become my most prolific thread.
Not many people know that! 
It only took once. For twenty minutes.
I should add that the reason that it took several moon missions to accomplish their goals is that it took longer than they thought to perfect the “moon walk”. Neil Armstrong is often thought of as a hero but was a infamously bad pop dancer. Subsequent moon astronauts were a little better but it still took years to get it right. It is a little known fact that NASA requires to this day all new astronauts to be talented dance movers and this has caused many otherwise highly qualified applicants to be rejected.
As I don’t see Disco Stu prominent on NASA’s hall of fame, yet an entire wing is dovoted to the bravery and self sacrifice of Inanimate Carbon Rod, I call bullshit on this dancing thing.
What? Sorry, a sludge barge was just passing through my living room - it kinda drowned you out.
…a gorilla rarely drinks. It gets almost all the moisture it needs from it’s food.
When the gorilla meets up with the Yale co-eds at Mariana’s Trench, he can toss back the salted margerita’s with the best of the primates. For about 20 minutes.
Well, you’d hardly ever drink either if each bartender you met tried to charge you $20 for a beer.
Is that in 1960 dollars?
In 1960, two men spent twenty minutes salting Mariana Trench, a Yale co-ed. They covered her to a depth of fifty feet, then sent her to the moon for three hundred hours. Not many people know that.
I knew that.
There are no fish in the Dead Sea.
If you were to visit the Marianas Trench would you see any fish? Would it take more than a 20 minute visit to find them? Are the chances of seeing any fish in said trench be greater or lesser than they were in 1960?
Discuss.
If we took all the salt out of the Dead Sea, and spread it over the land, all the people floating in it would sink to the bottom, just once. For 20 minutes.
just once. For 20 minutes.
“The odds against getting onto a plane that has a bomb on it are a million to one. The odds against getting onto a plane that has two bombs on it are two million to one. So, if you want to make sure nobody brings a bomb onto your plane, take your own bomb on with you. Not a lot of people know that !” --Benny Hill
That is SO wrong.
The odds are 50-50.
Either you will. Or you won’t.
Man has visited the deepest part of the world’s oceans, Challenger Deep in the Marianas Trench, just once. In 1960. For 20 minutes.