LOL. Not a great fan of the harlequin, eh? :-)
Brent "Martin Baxter" <truthseeker...@hotmail.com> wrote: >Brent... *please* tell me that they sent him up with half the needed >oxygen. > >Martin (*clowns)... > >"If all the world's a stage and all the people merely players, who in >bloody hell hired the director?" -- Charles L Grant > >http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQUxw9aUVik > > > > >To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com >From: brent_wodeho...@thefence.us >Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:50:37 -0400 >Subject: [scifinoir2] The First Clown In Space > > >http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iwmrYnO6-eP0vDWK_bxRTJYDhGPAD9AP4Q684 > >Canadian to lighten the mood aboard space station > >STAR CITY, Russia - The man who plans on being "the first clown in space" >said Thursday he's got some surprises planned for the crew of the >international space station. > >Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte told reporters he plans to tickle >the professional astronauts while they're sleeping, and he's also bringing >red clown noses to try to lighten things up on the orbiting station. > >"I'm a person with a pretty high spirit, who's there to crack jokes and >make jokes to those guys, and while they're sleeping, you know, I'll be >tickling them," Laliberte said. > >The 50-year-old Canadian creator of the famed circus troupe is paying $35 >million to blast off later this month on a Russian spacecraft, >accompanying cosmonaut Maxim Surayev and astronaut Jeffrey Williams on the >two-day journey to the station. The three spoke to reporters ahead of >their flight to the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, where Soyuz is >scheduled to blast off from on Sept. 30. > >Laliberte hopes his 12-day stay aboard the station will help raise >awareness of drinking water problems around the world when he hosts the >first multimedia event from the station on Oct. 9 to highlight that >crisis. > >On a lighter note, he pulled out a handful of red clown noses from his >pocket that he plans to give to the station crew. > >"This is the symbol of my mission, but it will also remind me that I >should never forget I was once a kid," said Laliberte, a former tightrope >walker and fire-eater who's been dubbed the "first clown in space." > >The Quebec-born businessman is expected to be the last private paying >tourist to visit the station for some time as NASA mothballs its space >shuttle fleet and the U.S. space agency relies on Soyuz craft to get back >and forth to the space station. > >"At this moment the butterflies start to rise in my stomach," he said. > >Copyright © 2009 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
