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- Subj: @netfriends >> The Aliens are coming...
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- Date: 28 Jul 1985 14:25:33-EDT (Sunday)
- From: Stephen Balzac <SBALZAC%YKTVMX.BITNET@Berkeley>
- Subject: Why would 'they' come to Earth
-
- I saw the following article on why Aliens would want to visit Earth,
- so I figured I would contribute it to the discussion.
-
- THE ALIENS ARE COMING, THE ALIENS ARE COMING!
- -Dave Barry
-
- I don't want to alarm anybody, but there is an excellent chance that
- the Earth will be destroyed in the next several days. Congress is
- thinking about eliminating a federal program under which scientists
- broadcast signals to alien beings. This would be a large mistake.
- Alien beings have nuclear blaster death cannons. You cannot cut off
- their federal programs as if they were merely poor people.
-
- I realize some of you may not believe that alien beings exist. But
- how else can you explain the many unexplained phenomena that people
- are always sighting, such as lightning and flying saucers? Oh, I
- know the authorities claim these sightings are actually caused by
- "weather balloons," but that is a bucket of manure if I ever heard
- one. (That's just a figure of speech, of course. I realize manure
- is silent.)
-
- Answer this question honestly: Have you, or has any member of your
- immediate family, ever seen a weather balloon? Of course not.
- Nobody has. Yet if these "authorities" were telling the truth, the
- skies over America would be dark with weather balloons. Commercial
- aviation would be impossible. Nevertheless, the authorities trot
- out this tired old explanation, or an even stupider one, every time
- a flying saucer is sighted.
-
- Wake up, America! There are no weather balloons! Those are alien
- beings! They are all around us! I'm sure most of you have seen the
- movie "E.T.", the story of an alien who almost dies when he falls
- into the clutches of the American medical establishment but is saved
- by pre-adolescent boys. Everybody believes the alien is a fake, a
- triumph of special effects. But watch the movie closely next time.
- The alien is real. The boys are fakes. Real pre-adolescent boys
- would have beaten the alien to death with rocks.
-
- Yes, aliens exist and high government officials know they exist, but
- they've been keeping this knowledge top secret. Here is the Untold
- Story:
-
- Years ago, when the alien-broadcast program began, government
- scientists decided to broadcast a message that would be simple yet
- convey a sense of love, universal peace and brotherhood: "Have a
- Nice Day." They broadcast this message over and over, day after
- day, year after year, until one day they got an answer:
-
- Dear Earth Persons:
-
- OK. We are having a nice day. We also have a number of extremely
- sophisticated weapons, and unless you start broadcasting something
- more interesting, we will reduce your planet to a very warm object
- the size of a child's bowling ball.
- Regards,
- The Aliens
-
- So the scientists, desperate for something that would interest the
- aliens, broadcast an episode of "I Love Lucy", and the aliens loved
- it. They demanded more, and soon they were getting all three major
- networks, and the Earth was saved. There is only one problem: THE
- ALIENS HAVE TERRIBLE TASTE. They love game shows, soap operas,
- Howard Cosell and "Dallas." Whenever a network tries to take one of
- these shows off the air, the aliens threaten to vaporize the planet.
-
- This is why you and all your friends think television is so awful.
- It isn't designed to please you --it's designed to please creatures
- from another galaxy. You know the Wisk commercial, the one with
- ring around the collar, the one so spectacularly stupid that it
- makes you wonder why anybody would dream of buying the product?
- Well, the aliens love that commercial. We all owe a great debt of
- gratitude to the people who make Wisk. They have not sold a single
- bottle of Wisk in 14 years, but they have saved the Earth.
-
- Very few people know any of this. Needless to say, Congress has no
- idea what is going on. Most legislators are incapable of eating
- breakfast without the help of several aides, so we can hardly expect
- them to understand a serious threat from outer space. But if they
- go ahead with their plan to cancel the alien-broadcast program and
- the aliens miss the next episode of "General Hospital," What do you
- think will happen? Think about it. And have a nice day.
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