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US Government Employee: "Okay, awesome. So that's a solid contract for the Lunar Lander for NASA. Great doing business with you."
Northrop Grumman salesman: "Yeah, sure, happy to help us win the space race against the Soviets!"
Gov Employee: "Now if you'll excuse me, I need to go figure out who we're going to get to build a stealth bomber for the Air Force."
Grumman: "Oh, we can do that too!"
Gov Employee: "Whoa, really? Thanks, that really makes the rest of the week easier. I appreciate it! Now all I need to do is find someone to make some cute little mail delivery trucks for the USPS."
Grumman: "You're not gonna believe this..."
Just to head off any pedantry: I know this isn't how it went, but it's funnier this way.
I believe the history is Grumman made the usps trucks and then a little while after, they merged with Northrup, to make Northrup Grumman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_LLV
Yes, hence the disclaimer. Grumman delivered the Lunar Module in 1968, Grumman delivered the LLV in 1986, Northrup delivered the B-2 Spirit in 1987, and the companies combined in 1994.
You didn't pay any attention to their comment trying to head off your pedantry. Did you?
I saw no pedantry, only interesting information.
The pedantry is genuinely interesting and contributes to the conversation. It's not like *it's or something that's pedantic for the sake of being pedantic.
It's wild that they actually responded to the pedantry comment with the exact pedantry I was trying to pre-empt.