Sputnik?

At this week's Park Board meeting, commissioner Lori DeFillippi happened to mention October 4th.
"Sputnik Day," Mayor William Stortz immediately interjected.
"Who's Sputnik?" DeFillippi responded. "I don't know Sputnik."
After Stortz explained that Sputnik was the name of the first satellite, launched in 1957 by the former USSR, DeFillippi remained perplexed.
"I graduated from high school in 1978. How should I know Sputnik?" she asked.
"Who names a ship Sputnik?" DeFillippi asked. "I thought it was Otis Spunkmeier."

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