Chris: ha! latest news from the phoenix lander on the soil samples…
Chris: “Sam Kounaves, the lead investigator for the wet chemistry laboratory on Phoenix, told journalists: ‘It is the type of soil you would probably have in your back yard, you know, alkaline. You might be able to grow asparagus in it really well. … It is very exciting for us.'”
Chris: why… asparagus??
jsr: Maybe he likes asparagus?
Chris: that’s not possible.
jsr: Maybe he knows something we don’t! … Something … about asparagus!
Chris: haha “all earthly asparagus is actually a dumb decendent of the master race asparagus on mars.”
jsr: That’s why we see them traditionally as little and green.
jsr: And now they turn their attention to Earth. And they see our asparagus roll-ups. And they are ANGRY.
June 27, 2008 at 1:31 am
I thought asparagus liked it a little sandy?
June 27, 2008 at 2:04 am
maybe that would explain why they tend to arrive in cylinders….
June 27, 2008 at 2:11 am
Now I’m craving asparagus
June 27, 2008 at 2:22 am
It’s because growing asparagus takes a NASA sort of time-frame.
Or! They’re preparing to use asparagus growing as a front for something else. “We’re just growing asparagus, honestly officer. No, don’t look back there…”
June 27, 2008 at 2:47 am
I always thought there was something suspicious about asparagus rolls
June 27, 2008 at 6:57 am
Mmm green phallic things… WHY were you two talking about green phallic things?
June 29, 2008 at 7:24 am
Why are YOU talking about green phallic things?
June 29, 2008 at 7:27 am
Freud would have a field day with the reply that just popped out of my head.
I’ll go clean my brain out now…
June 29, 2008 at 7:41 am
Tha-a-a-ats what I thought.
June 27, 2008 at 8:58 pm
Would you say that they would turn up in… a mob?
An … asparagus mob?
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(#032, currently on my wall in front of me in notebook form!)
June 27, 2008 at 8:58 pm
NotePAD. NotePAD form.