From: calderone@sysnet.net (Susan Hurstcalderone)
Subject: Mars humor
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 1997 17:17:42 -0400
I recently received this humorous piece from TOURBUS@LISTSERV.AOL.COM which is produced by Patrick Douglas Crispen. With his permission, I thought you might enjoy the humor on a lazy summer day. >MARS AIR FORCE DENIES STORIES OF UFO CRASH > > Valles Marineris (MPI) - A spokesthing for Mars Air Force > denounced as false rumors that an alien space craft crashed in > the desert, outside of Ares Vallis on Friday. Appearing at a > press conference today, General Rgrmrmy The Lesser, stated that > "the object was, in fact, a harmless high-altitude weather > balloon, not an alien spacecraft". > > The story broke late Friday night when a major stationed at > nearby Ares Vallis Air Force Base contacted the Valles Marineris > Daily Record with a story about a strange, balloon-shaped object > which allegedly came down in the nearby desert, "bouncing" > several times before coming to a stop, "deflating in a sudden > explosion of alien gases". Minutes later, General Rgrmrmy The > Lesser contacted the Daily Record telepathically to contradict > the earlier report. General Rgrmrmy The Lesser stated that > hysterical stories of a detachable vehicle roaming across the > Martian desert were blatant fiction, provoked by incidences > involving swamp gas. But the general public has been slow to > accept the Air Force's explanation of recent events, preferring > to speculate on the "other-worldly" nature of the crash debris. > Conspiracy theorists have condemned Rgrmrmy's statements as > evidence of "an obvious government cover-up", pointing out that > Mars has no swamps. > >I thought you'd get a kick out of that (personally, I am *still* laughing >about the word "spokesTHING"). Anyway, ......" Susan Hurstcalderone Science Coordinatory/Teacher Blessed Sacrament School 5841 Chevy Chase Parkway, NW Washington, D.C. 20015 calderone@sysnet.net [home] Science.....a way of thinking. 202/966-6682 [school] 202/966-4938 [school fax]