# Once, 50 years ago. For 20 minutes. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 23, 2010, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-50-years-ago-for-20-minutes/526086 "2010-01-23T06:00:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![swampbear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/swampbear/32/467_2.png) [@swampbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/swampbear)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-50-years-ago-for-20-minutes/526086/21 "2010-01-25T02:06:40Z")
> [@trupa](#): > > but now, > …all your Bathyscapes are belong to us! > > _(ducks & runs…)_ I burning your bathyscape! ---
**Author:** ![Green\_Bean](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/green_bean/32/1760_2.png) [@Green\_Bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Green_Bean)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-50-years-ago-for-20-minutes/526086/22 "2010-01-25T02:11:04Z")
When come back bring buckeye. **Lobsang** –you can’t seriously expect us to believe that you’ve never heard about this Marianas Trench business on this board. Or is that just a big gotcha ya? ---
**Author:** ![threemae](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/5f9b8f/32.png) [@threemae](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/threemae)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-50-years-ago-for-20-minutes/526086/23 "2010-01-25T02:43:18Z")
Someone explain to me why this is funny. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Miskatonic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.miskatonic/32/310_2.png) [@Mr.Miskatonic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Miskatonic)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-50-years-ago-for-20-minutes/526086/24 "2010-01-25T04:40:00Z")
> [@threemae](#): > > Someone explain to me why this is funny. Because old memes are teh funny! ---
**Author:** ![Shmendrik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shmendrik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shmendrik)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 6:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-50-years-ago-for-20-minutes/526086/25 "2010-01-25T06:07:26Z")
I’m a rather sporadic lurker here, and I read this thread with a bewildered sense of deja vu until I got I got to **shantih** ’s post. I’m not going crazy after all. Well, maybe I am, but this doesn’t prove it. ---
**Author:** ![Shmendrik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Shmendrik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shmendrik)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-50-years-ago-for-20-minutes/526086/26 "2010-01-25T06:39:58Z")
Past the edit window, but I’d like to point out that when I first saw this thread, I did think I was going crazy. But only for 20 minutes. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-50-years-ago-for-20-minutes/526086/27 "2010-01-25T06:51:01Z")
> [@Shmendrik](#): > > Past the edit window, but I’d like to point out that when I first saw this thread, I did think I was going crazy. But only for 20 minutes. Mama, we’re all crazy now. ---
**Author:** ![kambuckta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/53a042/32.png) [@kambuckta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kambuckta)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 6:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-50-years-ago-for-20-minutes/526086/28 "2010-01-25T06:54:09Z")
> [@ivan\_astikov](#): > > Am I to believe that they sent 2 men down there without sending a lower primate down first? > > Come on, what was the monkey’s name? Engelbert Humperdink I believe. ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 7:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-50-years-ago-for-20-minutes/526086/29 "2010-01-25T07:26:36Z")
I wonder whatever became of\*\* Legion\*\*? I see he hasn’t posted in over two years. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-50-years-ago-for-20-minutes/526086/30 "2010-01-25T12:42:55Z")
> [@kambuckta](#): > > Engelbert Humperdink I believe. Good ole Straightdope; you never let me down. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-50-years-ago-for-20-minutes/526086/31 "2010-01-25T14:03:45Z")
> [@Mr.Miskatonic](#): > > Because old memes are teh funny! I accidentally your babby! ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-50-years-ago-for-20-minutes/526086/32 "2010-01-25T14:08:17Z")
In Soviet Russia bathyscape find you. ---
**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 25, 2010, 3:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-50-years-ago-for-20-minutes/526086/33 "2010-01-25T15:21:59Z")
Never mind the 50 years; I can’t believe it’s been **six** years already since the twenty-minute thread. ---
**Author:** ![Lobsang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobsang/32/4067_2.png) [@Lobsang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobsang)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-50-years-ago-for-20-minutes/526086/34 "2010-01-25T17:44:42Z")
> [@Green\_Bean](#): > > When come back bring buckeye. > > **Lobsang** –you can’t seriously expect us to believe that you’ve never heard about this Marianas Trench business on this board. > > Or is that just a big gotcha ya? Nope. Must have been during one of my hiatuses. ---
**Author:** ![iamthewalrus\_3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/258eb7/32.png) [@iamthewalrus\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamthewalrus_3)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-50-years-ago-for-20-minutes/526086/35 "2010-01-25T19:35:20Z")
> [@outlierrn](#): > > I was under the impression that a lot of vessels had gone to the bottom, once. This one is different because it came back (bringing pie). ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 8:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-50-years-ago-for-20-minutes/526086/36 "2010-01-25T20:54:11Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > Um, I’ve been a doper for 8 years and use the internet every day. I’m not aware that it’s a meme. You are obviously not aware of all Internet traditions. ---
**Author:** ![outlierrn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/outlierrn/32/3005_2.png) [@outlierrn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/outlierrn)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-50-years-ago-for-20-minutes/526086/37 "2010-01-25T20:57:46Z")
> [@RTFirefly](#): > > You are obviously not aware of all Internet traditions. I’ll bet he’s not a golfer, either ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-50-years-ago-for-20-minutes/526086/38 "2010-01-25T22:23:22Z")
Few people realize that, by inadvertence, the Trieste missed observing an experimental scalar weapon that had been dropped into the Marianas Trench. But that’s OK, it was already four decades out of style. ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-50-years-ago-for-20-minutes/526086/39 "2010-01-25T23:12:06Z")
They also saw 14k of g in a pfd down there. The two guys made a pact to never tell anyone about it. With any luck they will both die before revealing thier secret and the world will remain safe. Why do you think no one ever went back? ---
**Author:** ![Indistinguishable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/90ced4/32.png) [@Indistinguishable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indistinguishable)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2010, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/once-50-years-ago-for-20-minutes/526086/40 "2010-01-25T23:49:06Z")
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