The Hunt for Planet Nine Continues

On Friday, July 22, 2016 at 10:44:48 AM UTC-6, Chris.B wrote:
On Friday, 22 July 2016 14:30:48 UTC+2, Quadibloc wrote:
On Friday, July 22, 2016 at 12:41:14 AM UTC-6, Chris.B wrote:

What spoilt it for them was the "Let Them Eat Cake" inscribed in huge, solid
gold lettering above the entrance.

So they *did* panic.

Panic? Was that a question? Relevance? FTL aliens would, by definition, be far too advanced and technically sophisticated to fear anything we [shrieking apes] could possibly manage.

It was a reference: the large friendly letters were saying the wrong thing.

John Savard

On Friday, 22 July 2016 19:18:54 UTC+2, Quadibloc wrote:

It was a reference: the large friendly letters were saying the wrong thing.

John Savard

I am obviously too unread or too unworthy to catch your drift....

On Friday, 22 July 2016 18:59:05 UTC+2, RichA wrote:

Ah, now it starts. Every time some conservative is running, the libby-progs say "I'm going to run away! Waaaaaa!"

It's the human flight reflex from long before the first human's word was written in their own blood:

"If it looks like a pompous dictator, talks like a pompous dictator's daughter and swaggers like a small, fat man with a Golden Tamarind on his head, then misery for the masses will not be far behind!"

On Friday, July 22, 2016 at 12:00:19 PM UTC-5, RichA wrote:
On Friday, 22 July 2016 02:41:14 UTC-4, Chris.B wrote:
On Thursday, 21 July 2016 16:29:58 UTC+2, Quadibloc wrote:

However, the chances of finding the ruins of a lost civilization on Planet
Nine, from which we can learn the secret of building faster-than-light
spaceships, remain remote. Which means that it is unlikely to provide me with a way to get far enough away from Donald Trump, should he be elected President.

John Savard

Which brings up the subject of the aliens asking to be "taken to your leader."

They left almost immediately with tears of laughter running down their cheeks!

Apparently he claimed to be a direct descendant of Louis the 14th.

Sadly the aliens were not taken in by his lavish furnishings.

What spoilt it for them was the "Let Them Eat Cake" inscribed in huge, solid gold lettering above the entrance.

And "Arbeit macht frei" in black, wrought iron above the immigrant, servant's entrance.

Or, in another reality, the visage of an old, lazy, stupid bag who sold-out (along with her philandering husband) the entire U.S. to China and whomever else would pay them.

Old and bag probably, but certainly not lazy or stupid. I believe that among the philandering we can count Gingrich, Kennedy, Eisenhower and who knows perhaps most of the past presidents, along with just about every French and Italian leader where such a thing is expected and frowned upon when not done.

On Friday, July 22, 2016 at 11:35:02 AM UTC-6, Chris.B wrote:
On Friday, 22 July 2016 19:18:54 UTC+2, Quadibloc wrote:

It was a reference: the large friendly letters were saying the wrong thing.

I am obviously too unread or too unworthy to catch your drift....

I am surprised, given that it outsells the Encyclopedia Galactica by such a large
margin...

John Savard

Quadibloc wrote:
On Friday, July 22, 2016 at 11:35:02 AM UTC-6, Chris.B wrote:
On Friday, 22 July 2016 19:18:54 UTC+2, Quadibloc wrote:

It was a reference: the large friendly letters were saying the wrong thing.

I am obviously too unread or too unworthy to catch your drift....

I am surprised, given that it outsells the Encyclopedia Galactica by such a large
margin...

John Savard


He probably prefers cycling to hitchhiking.
And thinks Ford Prefect is a car.

On Friday, July 22, 2016 at 3:10:16 PM UTC-6, Mike Collins wrote:

And thinks Ford Prefect is a car.

The Ford Prefect _is_ a car, even though it was only available in Britain. That
was one of the jokes.

John Savard

Quadibloc wrote:
On Friday, July 22, 2016 at 3:10:16 PM UTC-6, Mike Collins wrote:

And thinks Ford Prefect is a car.

The Ford Prefect _is_ a car, even though it was only available in Britain. That
was one of the jokes.

John Savard


Sigh!

On Friday, 22 July 2016 21:25:05 UTC+2, Quadibloc wrote:

I am surprised, given that it outsells the Encyclopedia Galactica by such a large
margin...

John Savard

You lost me in referring to a form of letters other than those I had attached to the tasteless entrance of a shrine to unfettered greed. In many ways the occupant has much in common with Arab oil princes. Loads of dosh but without the slightest imagination to do other than slavishly copy each other. Marble palace? Check? Cars? Check? Gold bath taps? Check. Watch? Check. Mean as hell with it? Check. Grand delusions of self importance? Check. Yawn? Check...

PS. I thought Zooey Deschanelle's delightful portrayal of Trillian was very moving but highly improbable. ;-)

On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 22:13:53 -0700 (PDT), "Chris.B"
wrote:

PS. I thought Zooey Deschanelle's delightful portrayal of Trillian was very moving but highly improbable. ;-)

Infinitely so.