Glenn Latham Quotes in The Dish (2000)

Al Burnett: Are you telling me that NASA's prime receiving station has absolutely no idea where Apollo 11 is?

Glenn Latham: Yeah - it's on its way to the moon.

Glenn Latham: Everything's fine.

Al Burnett: Except we lost Apollo 11!

Glenn Latham: Oh, except for that.

Cliff Buxton: My wife said something. She said, "Failure is never quite so frightening as regret".

Glenn Latham: Oh, that's good advice.

Cliff Buxton: Pretty good.

Glenn Latham: I wish somebody'd tell me that.

Al Burnett: Not everyone at NASA is a hotshot college genius. The guy I most admire is from a one-horse town in Ohio.

Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell: And what's he do?

Al Burnett: Tomorrow he's gonna walk on the moon.

Glenn Latham: ...Who's the guy?

Cliff Buxton: Do you know what I thought when this first came up?

Glenn Latham: What, your pipe?

Cliff Buxton: No. The moon mission.

Glenn Latham: You beauty?

Cliff Buxton: I thought, imagine stuffing that up. Isn't that odd?

Glenn Latham: What?

Cliff Buxton: Well, that I was more scared than excited.

Glenn Latham: I don't think that's odd. I feel like that all the time.

Al Burnett: I stand corrected.

Ross "Mitch" Mitchell: No, you're WRONG!

Al Burnett: Do we have a problem?

Ross "Mitch" Mitchell: Yeah! You treat us like a pack of galahs!

Glenn Latham: That's a type of parrot.

Cliff Buxton: Glenn, come here.

Glenn Latham: What?

Al Burnett: Every coordinate in this book has been changed.

Glenn Latham: Yeah... I changed them.

Al Burnett: You what?

Glenn Latham: I changed them.

Al Burnett: Why?

Glenn Latham: Because they were wrong.

Al Burnett: Why were they wrong?

Glenn Latham: Dunno.

Cliff Buxton: No, what about them was wrong?

Glenn Latham: Oh! Well, the figures NASA gave us were for the northern hemisphere... and we're in the southern hemisphere? I can change them back but then you'd be pointing in the wrong d...

Cliff Buxton: Glenn, it might be a good idea for you to tell us these things.

Glenn Latham: Oh, sure, I just didn't wanna worry you... Cuppa tea, Al?

Cliff Buxton: We stuffed?

Glenn Latham: Yep. We're stuffed.

[explaining to Janine how the prime receiving stations work]

Glenn Latham: Imagine the earth as a basketball.

Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell: This'll be good.

Glenn Latham: And on top of the basketball there's...

[to Mitch and Cliff]

Glenn Latham: What's the name of the thing you put the pump into?

Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell: A hole.

Glenn Latham: Yeah but it's got a name.

[Mitch shrugs his shoulders]

Glenn Latham: The valve! Imagine on top there's a valve, and on the bottom there's another valve and...

Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell: You know, basketballs only have one valve, Glenn.

Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell: Well, what's something that has two valves?

Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell: Tuba?

Glenn Latham: It's gotta be round.

Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell: Tamborine?

Glenn Latham: That doesn't have valves!

Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell: Coconut!

Cliff Buxton: Mitch!

Glenn Latham: Computer. 20 seconds it does what it used to take me 5 hours on a slide rule.

Ross 'Mitch' Mitchell: And a basketball.