[Ads-l] "that ship has sailed"

Tue Jul 28 03:39:17 UTC 2026

Watching For All Mankind, the Apple TV series about, well, the race to the
moon, and a character says "That ship has sailed." The year is 1970.

Sounded out of time to me, but I was shocked by how much. Google NGR says
2000 and after only! What?

Green's doesn't have anything on it. What do you suppose the inciting
incident was on that one?

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