What is the first thing you think of when you hear "The Right Stuff"?
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« on: July 11, 2021, 08:32:04 PM »
Option 4, unfortunately, because that's the first time I heard of it. So imagine my reaction when I heard Thom Hartmann saying he had read "The Right Stuff" and complimented it.
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« Reply #1 on: July 11, 2021, 08:34:52 PM »
The actor Scott Glenn wearing his cute little astronaut suit in that one movie (who he may or may not have been portraying John Glenn, who was a real life bad-ass).

In other words, spacemen.   
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« Reply #2 on: July 11, 2021, 08:37:24 PM »
The Quantum Leap episode "The Wrong Stuff".
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« Reply #3 on: July 11, 2021, 08:43:21 PM »
The New Kids on the Block song.
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« Reply #4 on: July 11, 2021, 08:44:32 PM »
None of those. I have never heard this expression in any context.
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« Reply #5 on: July 11, 2021, 08:54:07 PM »
Quote from: SecularGlobalist on July 11, 2021, 08:50:18 PM
Quote from: But They Ain't Get No Vietnam Check on July 11, 2021, 08:44:32 PM
None of those. I have never heard this expression in any context.

I have no idea what the OP is actually referring to, but I always thought that was fairly common lingo in military/defense/nerd circles.  

"The Right Stuff" = slang for those who are accepted--and can successfully complete--the astronaut training pipeline.

I'm not a military/defense enthusiast, so I'd never heard it used as lingo or in any other context before coming across the blog during the alt-right's emerging stages.
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« Reply #6 on: July 11, 2021, 09:03:28 PM »
Quote from: SecularGlobalist on July 11, 2021, 08:34:52 PM
The actor Scott Glenn wearing his cute little astronaut suit in that one movie (who he may or may not have been portraying John Glenn, who was a real life bad-ass).

In other words, spacemen.  

Ed Harris played John Glenn.

Scott Glenn played Alan Shepard.  

And to complete the name game, Sam Shepard played Chuck Yeager (who I once met briefly, about 40 years ago).  Now that was a bad-ass.  I highly recommend his autobiography, Yeager.
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« Reply #7 on: July 11, 2021, 09:41:54 PM »
The movie, since I had to watch in a history class back in high school.
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« Reply #8 on: July 11, 2021, 10:06:33 PM »

This, although it also reminded me of Weird Al's version "The White Stuff."
(Don't worry, it's not a white nationalist number.)
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« Reply #9 on: July 11, 2021, 10:16:39 PM »
(((Option 4)))
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« Reply #10 on: July 12, 2021, 10:52:01 AM »
A series of gas station convenience stores I encountered mostly in north Georgia.
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« Reply #11 on: July 13, 2021, 10:01:04 AM »
Spelt differently, but the British daytime television show The Wright Stuff, where there was a woman in a glass cage.
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« Reply #12 on: July 13, 2021, 11:38:59 AM »
I do vaguely remember watching the movie ages ago, so there's that.

I have never heard of the phrase used in any other context, and certainly not the other three.
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