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#224734 - 05/31/11 09:55 AM Re: Nat Geo "When Aliens Attack" [Re: KenOTBC]
hikermor Offline
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I have often surmised that if aliens come to visit us, it is to watch our strange behavior during morning and evening rush hour traffic - kind of the way we gather to watch the evening bat flights at Carlsbad Caverns.....
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#224757 - 05/31/11 02:14 PM Re: Nat Geo "When Aliens Attack" [Re: Art_in_FL]
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Originally Posted By: Art_in_FL

That's how it goes if we are lucky. If not, they like a good hunt and blood sports.


If we are unlucky, they just let us continue to breed indiscriminately, returning every so often to snatch some of us up as food to serve to their pets.

[shivers thinking about it ... and adds futuristic laser or plasma rifle to his survival supply wish list]
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#225752 - 06/12/11 02:32 AM Re: Nat Geo "When Aliens Attack" [Re: LED]
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i'm ready for the aliens.



and i have a bow tie.


Edited by Erik_B (06/12/11 02:34 AM)
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#225772 - 06/12/11 05:12 PM Re: Nat Geo "When Aliens Attack" [Re: Erik_B]
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Loc: Ontario, Canada
Originally Posted By: Erik_B
i'm ready for the aliens.



and i have a bow tie.


No towel?!
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#225775 - 06/12/11 05:38 PM Re: Nat Geo "When Aliens Attack" [Re: LED]
Jeanette_Isabelle Offline
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Why a towel? I would think he could use a long scarf. I assume the brown bag has Jelly Babies, if not, he needs those too.

Jeanette Isabelle
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#225778 - 06/12/11 05:47 PM Re: Nat Geo "When Aliens Attack" [Re: Jeanette_Isabelle]
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Originally Posted By: JeanetteIsabelle
Why a towel?


Reference for all the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" geeks out there.
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#225780 - 06/12/11 06:01 PM Re: Nat Geo "When Aliens Attack" [Re: bacpacjac]
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Originally Posted By: bacpacjac
Reference for all the "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" geeks out there.

That is one I have not seen.

Jeanette Isabelle
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#225786 - 06/12/11 06:48 PM Re: Nat Geo "When Aliens Attack" [Re: Jeanette_Isabelle]
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Registered: 09/09/06
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Loc: Iowa
For all the uninitiated out there.

"... a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: nonhitchhiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, washcloth, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet-weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with. "

Thank you Douglas Adams for the above and for "DON'T PANIC".

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#225790 - 06/12/11 07:30 PM Re: Nat Geo "When Aliens Attack" [Re: bacpacjac]
Am_Fear_Liath_Mor Offline
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Registered: 08/03/07
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Wow, its a long time since I watched the original TV series on the BBC after getting back home from school. We only had 3 TV channels back then. This would have been around the same time the Sinclair ZX-81 was new and Blakes 7 was on the TV as well. blush

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnautWFuEnQ


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Young folks tend not to be exposed to Hitchhiker's Guide these days. I'm 25 and probably the only 25 year old on my entire county who is familiar with the book.


The Babelfish non existance of God argument probably wouldn't go down to well on the TV in Florida. wink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcncPpQ8loA




Edited by Am_Fear_Liath_Mor (06/12/11 07:56 PM)

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#225806 - 06/12/11 09:18 PM Re: Nat Geo "When Aliens Attack" [Re: LED]
Frisket Offline
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Jeesh I JUST watched the Movie again and now I Am DYING to get the book!
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