OT: Joke

Date: Jul 20, 2015

OT: Joke

mega-kitteh · Guru

Hahahah!!! Is this referring to what I think it is?!? Hehehee

Anonymouse1 · Guru

Yes, Tang the drink mix was created for the space flights.

Anonymouse1 · Guru

ok, slang for the female sex organ in Spanish is putang.

Date: Jul 21, 2015

mega-kitteh wrote:
Hahahah!!! Is this referring to what I think it is?!? Hehehee

Yes. I heard this from Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show the other night.

Date: Jul 21, 2015

Anonymouse1 wrote:
Yes, Tang the drink mix was created for the space flights.

Tang is a fruit-flavored drink. Originally formulated by General Foods Corporation food scientist William A. Mitchell^[1] in 1957, it was first marketed in powdered form in 1959.^[2] The Tang brand is owned by Mondelz International.

Sales of Tang were poor until NASA used it on John Glenn's Mercury flight,^[3] and subsequent Gemini missions. Since then, it was closely associated with the U.S. manned spaceflight program, leading to the misconception that Tang was invented for the space program.^[4]^[5]

Anonymouse1 · Guru

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymouse1 wrote:
Yes, Tang the drink mix was created for the space flights.

Tang is a fruit-flavored drink. Originally formulated by General Foods Corporation food scientist William A. Mitchell^[1] in 1957, it was first marketed in powdered form in 1959.^[2] The Tang brand is owned by Mondelz International.
Sales of Tang were poor until NASA used it on John Glenn's Mercury flight,^[3] and subsequent Gemini missions. Since then, it was closely associated with the U.S. manned spaceflight program, leading to the misconception that Tang was invented for the space program.^[4]^[5]

Ouch. I hate when I get busted.

My confusion is believing that most technology/products originate from the space or military programs. Of course, they got the technology from captured space crafts. :)

Date: Jul 21, 2015

Anonymouse1 wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymouse1 wrote:
Yes, Tang the drink mix was created for the space flights.

Tang is a fruit-flavored drink. Originally formulated by General Foods Corporation food scientist William A. Mitchell^[1] in 1957, it was first marketed in powdered form in 1959.^[2] The Tang brand is owned by Mondelz International.
Sales of Tang were poor until NASA used it on John Glenn's Mercury flight,^[3] and subsequent Gemini missions. Since then, it was closely associated with the U.S. manned spaceflight program, leading to the misconception that Tang was invented for the space program.^[4]^[5]
Ouch. I hate when I get busted.
My confusion is believing that most technology/products originate from the space or military programs. Of course, they got the technology from captured space crafts. :)

Well, I was a Tang drinker back in the day so I knew it came out before John Glenn drank it. It was a big deal and Tang's TV ads always said something like "Tang, what astronauts drink in space".