Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihlts.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe From: rjnoe@ihlts.UUCP (Roger Noe) Newsgroups: net.columbia,net.aviation Subject: No joy? Message-ID: <586@ihlts.UUCP> Date: Mon, 8-Oct-84 16:50:40 EDT Article-I.D.: ihlts.586 Posted: Mon Oct 8 16:50:40 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 9-Oct-84 04:01:01 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 10 Does anyone know the origin and meaning of the phrase "no joy"? I have heard it now from three astronauts on separate occasions. I think I heard it also on "Call to Glory" so I am guessing it came from military pilot jargon and made its way into NASA. I also think it probably means "no success". If anyone has further details on how the phrase came about, please fill me in. Why didn't Tom Wolfe have this in "The Right Stuff"? (or did I miss it?) -- "It's only by NOT taking the human race seriously that I retain what fragments of my once considerable mental powers I still possess." Roger Noe ihnp4!ihlts!rjnoe