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On of many cat and canary images created by Bob Ward at the "Cat House" in Henfield Sussex.

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Kevin Coyne - Learn To Swim, Learn To Drown

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Martial Mobility

Over the last few years, I have been very inspired by the many excellent martial artists that have been promoting our arts for health. Guro Inosanto of course has been propagating this idea for a long time, and it is well known how much value Sigung Bruce Lee placed in health, dieting and conditioning. The very broad application of Filipino Martial Arts gained prominence in the late 1970’s when…

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Mount Rushmore of Terps Football

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Big 10, Bob Ward, Boomer Esiason, Maryland Terrapins, Randy White

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After the Apollo 14 crew was released from its weeks-long monastic quarantine in Houston, red-haired Stu Roosa had quickly grown tired of a joke that made the rounds. It went thusly:

"Do you know who went into quarantine?"

"Sure, it was Captain Shepard, Commander Mitchell, and Major Roosa."

"Yeah, but do you know who came out of quarantine? It was Captain Shepard, Commander Mitchell, and 'that cute little redhead.'"

-Bob Ward, The Light Stuff

Please let this story be true.

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"Jack Swigert, the ruggedly handsome bachelor astronaut who flew to the moon aboard Apollo 13, took considerable ribbing about his being a Romeo. Friends said his favorite ploy was to invite young ladies up to his apartment to see, not his etchings, but what he claimed were his moon rocks."

- Bob Ward, The Light Stuff

I think that every space book is required by law to have a "Jack Swigert Loves the Ladies" passage.

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How Easy We Forget

Comedian Rodney Dangerfield isn't the only one who just can't get no respect. To hear Apollo 16 astronaut Charles Duke tell it, one day you're a space hero to millions, and then nobody ever heard of you.

Seven years after he spent a record seventy-one hours on the moon, Duke was telling a group of high school students in Seattle that it wasn't long after his space adventure that "only my wife and momma remembered." A year after that, all he could count on was Momma, he joked, and to jog the memories of his wife and sons "I kept pinning notes up around the house."

-Bob Ward, The Light Stuff

Charlie Duke is the best.

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Driving a Used Vehicle

John Young's first official act as the new chief of NASA's Astronaut Office after his Shuttle flight was to introduce publicly the crew for the second mission -- Joe Engle and Richard Truly. Warning them to be careful with Columbia because it was the only Shuttle orbiter around at the moment, the Florida-reared spaceman presented Engle with a three-foot-long "ignition" key to the vehicle.

Engle played the gag to the hilt: "My first question is, Would you buy a used spacecraft from this gentleman here? I heard it was driven by a little old man from Florida who never drove it over 20,000 miles an hour, and it's only got 900,000 miles on it."

-Bob Ward, The Light Stuff

"JOE, HOW DARE YA CALL ME OLD, YA VARMINT"