Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!ukc!icdoc!syma!nickw From: nickw@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Nick Watkins) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: "High Flight" (was Re: The Ramparts): Message-ID: <2142@syma.sussex.ac.uk> Date: 8 Feb 90 14:24:56 GMT References: <226.25BEC3D6@uscacm.UUCP> <5411.25c2dd7e@jane.uh.edu> <1096@sdrc.UUCP> <7786@sdcsvax.UCSD.Edu> <751@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU> Reply-To: nickw@syma.susx.ac.uk (Nick Watkins) Organization: University of Sussex Lines: 27 In article <751@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU>jwalicki@lehi3b15.csee.Lehigh.EDU (John Walicki [890904]) writes: >In article shafer@elxsi.dfrf.nasa.gov (Mary Shafer (OFV)) writes: >>There also was a "Bloom County" Sunday strip based on this poem, featuring >>Opus, naturally. Perilously close to desecration, but still funny. >I clipped the Sunday comic and it's hanging on my wall at home. It depicts >Opus hanging from a fishing rod controlled by Oliver Wendell Jones [ Stuff deleted ] I think the strip Mary was referring to is one where Opus goes for a spot of assisted flying but takes a nose dive as soon as he is released. That had the famous words from High Flight used directly. Was this poem the origin of the name High Flight Foundation for Jim Irwin's (?) organisation? Nick -- Nick Watkins, Space & Plasma Physics Group, School of Mathematical & Physical Sciences, Univ. of Sussex, Brighton, E.Sussex, BN1 9QH, ENGLAND JANET: nickw@syma.sussex.ac.uk BITNET: nickw%syma.sussex.ac.uk@uk.ac