Re: The latest, greatest Extra-Terrestrial Origin theory

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003 22:37, you wrote:
> Quoting Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...>:
> > An Alien spacecraft crashlanded on the moon.  On board were some
> > Pithecanthropoid "servitors", sentient robots.
>
> Pithecanthropoid? Did you just coin this, or does it have some technical
> significance? (I do realize it means "ape-humanesque".)
It's an abandoned coinage from the earlier days of archeology, anthropology,
and palaeoanthropology, etc, and means precisely that.  Now superceded by
"australopithecan" and various other words as the ancestral body count rose
and the bones molehill (fossilized) grew into a relative mountain.

>
> > The Aliens rebuilt their damaged craft but found they didn't have the
> > room for
> > their Pithecanthropoid servitors, so they bid them all a sorrowful adieu
> > and flew off, promising to drop by and pick them up later - when they had
> > refinanced their spaceship.
> >
> > After a prolonged period of time, it became apparent to even
> > Pithecanthropoid
> > brains that the Aliens were either in no hurry to return, or were unable
> > to do so.
> >
> > So they all got together and threw a line down from the Earth to the Moon
> > and
> > climbed down when it was dark.
> >
> > As a result, some humans of even today have more than one belly-button,
> > and cannot use the Fully-Automatic Nuclear-Powered Self-Propelled
> > Nose-Picker for
> > fear of systems incompatibilities.
> >
> > And the President of the United States has declared that, since we
> > obviously evolved without permission, we are an unauthorized life-form
> > and has made efforts to beef up the American Alien Invasion Defense
> > System, otherwise known as Star Warts.  "We cannot afford to have our
> > former alien masters return and sue us for damages relating to our
> > unauthorized evolution", he is reported as saying today to a Select
> > Committee of Similar Old Soaks.
>
> I think we can make a descent claim that all damages are due to neglect by
> the owners ...
>
>                                                              Andreas
I suppose so.

Wesley Parish ;)

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