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
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