SOCIALISTS! Actually no they are still scary.
Or draining your life force.
The cloudships of Magonia.
Quoth Annie-Xmas:
I’ve heard that this is actually incorrect. They were put in quarantine because NASA was afraid that the stresses of being cooped up in a small space together for days, plus microgravity, plus cosmic radiation, might have suppressed their immune systems to the point where they’d be particularly vulnerable to ordinary Earthly bugs. It was to protect them, not the rest of the Earth. But moon germs make an easier headline, so that’s what the media ran with.
An earlier thread on the Apollo astronaut quarantines: Why did they quarantine the returning Apollo astronauts? - Factual Questions - Straight Dope Message Board
Watch your step there, me boyo: Great Molasses Flood - Wikipedia
I don’t recall millions of Americans being slaughterd by communists. Looks like we escaped that fate by the skin of our teeth.
Witches too! And ghosts!
Milk! Rectangles!
Millions of people were. Fortunately, we had the good sense not to let the bastards in power.
Really, “communists” is as stupid as “Nazis” as an answer. I don’t recall millions of Americans slaughtered by them either.
Just half a million.
Invaders from Mars! (72 years ago this week).
Martians
ETA: Damn beaten to it (need to refresh more regularly)
The gold standard is and will always be vampire melons.
Maybe Meh out here in CA and some other areas, but in the Heartland, any Candidate suggesting any liberalization of any drug laws has little chance of being elected.
As to quicksand, I was actually caught in some once. It *was *scary. I was in no danger of drowning, but I did sink in well over my rubber boots and it was messy and hard to get myself out.
I just listened to a short story by George Eliot wherein a dead body was revived via a blood transfusion long enough to accuse a character of attempted murder.
Cats sucking the breath out of babies.
I’m trying to think of the 400,000 after you’ve counted Korea and Vietnam.
I think he meant the Nazis.