OT.

If there's a newspaper article out there with a more unlikely headline than
this, we're in for a very strange Thursday.

"Porn production line found in Ukraine rocket factory"

 

In aus.motorcycles on Thu, 27 Nov 2003 10:35:41 +1100

Well, it's just the 21st century version of that plaque the sent off
with Voyager, the one with the nekkid people on it.

Seeing as porn is the biggest industry on the planet, someone's clearly
decided it's probably the one point we'll have in common with other
species in the universe.

Zebee
- wondering who else remembers the scene in First Lensman where humans
and Rigellians have their first cultural meeting point...

 

Was that the one with the cars are built solid coz they bump off each
other?

Cheers


-------------
Kevin Gleeson
Technical Director
Blue Rocket Productions
Hobart, Tasmania, Australia
www.blue-rocket.com.au

 

In aus.motorcycles on Thu, 27 Nov 2003 12:11:17 +1100

Yeah. And the RIgellians have no sight or hearing, jsut a "sense of
perception" which does the same job. Samms is in telepathic contact
with his driver and sees an ad through his *own* sense of perception not
the driver's and realises that like humans the Rigellians ahd learned to
ignore advertising.

THe first point of real understanding between the two cultures.

Zebee

 

Remember the song back about 1975?

"Skyrockets in flight,
Afternoon delight."

Kim

 

Thinkin' 'bout you's workin' up an appetite.....

 

"Dr.Shifty" wrote

I remember! I even remember the song.

Theo

 

Me too. Shame bottle rockets were made illegal. It always reminded me of
the Queens B'day long weekend in Vic.

Hammo

 

"Hamish Alker-Jones" wrote in

Hammo, I was referring to the second line as my memory.

Theo

 

Back when the song was playing we'd just married, and my wife and I drove to
and from work together. Margaret Throsby on the ABC arvo drivetime would play
this regularly. I think she did it for people like us. I kept thinking of
those real-estate signs along busy roads, "If you lived here you'd be home by
now".

What am I thinking? I am home.

Bye all.
Kim