Once, 50 years ago. For 20 minutes.

I burning your bathyscape!

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?

Someone explain to me why this is funny.

Because old memes are teh funny!

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.

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.

Engelbert Humperdink I believe.

I wonder whatever became of** Legion**? I see he hasn’t posted in over two years.

Good ole Straightdope; you never let me down.

I accidentally your babby!

In Soviet Russia bathyscape find you.

Never mind the 50 years; I can’t believe it’s been six years already since the twenty-minute thread.

Nope. Must have been during one of my hiatuses.

This one is different because it came back (bringing pie).

You are obviously not aware of all Internet traditions.

I’ll bet he’s not a golfer, either

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.

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?

Psst… it’s 14 k of g in a f p d