Yes. C-3PO is a protocol droid programmed in human-cyborg relations, suggesting there are enough humans for such a droid to be necessary. And yes, I have a five-year-old boy.
1 & 2 are obviously wrong. Humans don't talk like that.
And in Leia's case, they don't wear their hair that way either.
What is wrong with my computer? I don't see no balloon-headed alien in the winder.
Really, do I need to turn the gamma up or something?
Wait, this post is all about smoking out the true losers, isn't it? Crap.
I think the alien is the short thing with the horizontal eyes. Its head is only in the bottom of the window.
Not Samuel Jackson's character, though:
Windu is a member of the Korun race. The Korunnai are human with one exception: every member born is Force-sensitive. The race organized themselves into tribes, called Ghôsh.
/'cause he's black
One might wonder how humans came to be in another galaxy far away from our own, but the mind of Lucas does not offer up all its secrets.
The Korunnai are human with one exception: every member born is Force-sensitive.
Oh, George.
One might wonder how humans came to be in another galaxy far away from our own, but the mind of Lucas does not offer up all its secrets.
Panspermia. PAN, that is, everywhere. And SPERMIA, that is, sperm.
10 yeah, that's the most visible one, there are other like paired dark spots that look like the ghost eyes
Wait, this post is all about smoking out the true losers, isn't it?
Yes. And unlike all the other posts, of course.
I do believe they brought MS Paint to a Photoshop fight, the poor dears. Completely hilarious.
One might wonder how humans came to be in another galaxy far away from our own
Oh well, it was long ago.
every member born is Force-sensitive has rhythm
12: We are so much better off when the mind of Lucas keeps its damn mouth shut and the fans wank a backstory. Mitichlorians? The hell?
10 yeah, that's the most visible one, there are other like paired dark spots that look like the ghost eyes
If you pitch this to the Sci-Fi Network as a crossover reality show - UFO Ghost Hunters or something - you will be an instant millionaire.
But only if you beat me to it.
Read, in the linked article it says there was one alien which bobbed up and down into the window, or something.
The taller things with the paired eyes must be bushes, as seen here.
But, what about the midi-chlorians? Earth humans are lacking those!!
We are so much better off when the mind of Lucas keeps its damn mouth shut and the fans wank a backstory.
Quiz: can any other phrase replace the bolded text and still make a true statement? Nothing comes to mind.
Actually in the link in 22 we see that both tall and short bushes can have eyes like that. This should explain both the "alien" and the other aliens spotted by read.
26: you could replace "Lucas" with "the Wachowski Brothers", or "the Donnie Darko guy".
Does anyone think that the alien looks like a reflection of a cheap plastic lawn chair?
aha i read the article, just saying i see 5 to 6 other figures in the picture, so if those are not aliens, the most visible alien is not an alien perhaps
but maybe he's more clearly visible in the video
the bushes link i couldn't open
This seems like crucial information omitted by Ogged:
Rojas said the video was taken July 17, 2003 in Nebraska by Stan Romanek, who set up the camera because he thought peeping Toms had been looking into his house at his two teenage daughters
Here are some more bushes. Will it let me link to these?
Actually, just cut out the bold section and replace it with nothing. Explains a lot.
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Goddamn iBook. Goddamn Ubuntu. Goddamn CD drive with no friggin' way to open it.
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It does look like the reflection of a cheap plastic lawn chair.
The bushes in Super Mario Bros. 3 don't blink, they just bounce back and forth. This creature must be of a different lineage than them. Do lawn chairs blink?
34: Why, pray tell, are you using your iBook when you have an Eee? I mean, that's your problem, isn't it?
Also, please write a review comparing your experiences with your Eee and iBook.
My iBook has been pretty much dead for about a year, so I didn't mind if I cocked it up further, but this is just annoying.
I really loved my iBook until it started crashing four times a day.
They are humans insofar as they can set and pursue rational ends.
because he thought peeping Toms had been looking into his house at his two teenage daughters
Damn, aliens are always so pervy. Take UFO Ghost Hunters as a concept and mash it up with that "To Catch a Pervy Old Molester" show and sell it to a premium channel, that is an instant million dollars.
do i see invisible things?
bushes, reflections whatever, do you see them, those dark spots looking like ghosts?
Robust, you set your sites too low. If you follow the UFO Ghosts around while they try to peek into farmer's teenage daughter's windows you'd run Girls Gone Wild out of business almost instantly, making it a $100,000,000 idea.
43: But the viewers are always frustrated, because the aliens just end up being extradited to their home planet in stead of being punished.
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Oh cripe. The virgin mary on a burnt grilled cheese sandwich, too.
MUFON!
>> MUFON COMES FROM PEEPING CIVILIZATION BEYOND THE STARS _
Girls Gone Wild
The GGW bus rolled by while I was eating lunch a few days ago.
49. Did you flash them?
Yes, it's difficult to imagine the subtlety and sophistication that would have been required to fake this photograph.
49. Did you flash them?
I ain't flashing till I get on Professors Talk Back on MTV.
Oh, I see. Even more impossible then. Because we won't have Aftereffects until the aliens bring it to us. My God! Proof!
Isn't this supposed to be, per the article linked earlier, from an infrared video camera? I'm no expert on infrared video photography, but this really does not look like what I'd expect from it.
52: Oh, delightful. It's of course a sign of things that I vaguely entertain the thought that such a program actually exists. Who knows?
>> MUFON ADVERSELY AFFECTS PRIMITIVE TERRAN INFRA RED CAMERATIC DEVICES _ WHILE PEEPING
52: Oh, delightful. It's of course a sign of things that I vaguely entertain the thought that such a program actually exists. Who knows?
I guess if Alf could be a botanist named Gordon, this lecherous alien could be named "Alejandro Rojas".
But what effect will that have on the November election?
60: Good question. Would President Obama or President McCain be more likely to prevent peeping aliens?
59: See? I'm learning that what seems vastly improbable is probable.
53: There's a very, very important educational film you need to watch called Close Encounters of the Third Kind that will blow this out of the water. It will also teach you to play giant New Wave pianos.
I'm learning that what seems vastly improbable is probable.
100 percent probable, even.
I love the article's "interactive poll" question:
Post Poll - Extraterrestrials
Do you believe in alien life? (Read related story.)
That's a fairly loosely "related" question, isn't it? Believing in alien life is a little different from believing alien life is looking in farm windows in Nebraska.
Also, I despise the fact that every news article these days includes an asinine reader poll of some sort.
Gonerill, you should totally make a Professors Strike Back video.
31: Here's the crucial info Ogged omitted:
Romanek, who moved to Colorado after the recording, claims to have had more than 100 encounters with aliens, Rojas said.
We might confuse the alien with a lawn chair but Romanek wouldn't, he's too experienced for that.
I believe that it's been proved that everything is either impossible or inevitable. The zero-one theorem.
Gonerill, you should totally make a Professors Strike Back video.
So far I have successfully avoided any appearance on RateMyProfessors.com, though, and I think getting rated there is a prerequisite for any TV.
71: I think the risk is very low, Emerson's theorems notwithstanding.
It looks like a guy wearing a Punisher t-shirt standing in the window.
73: I can see that. It looks like a jack o' lantern to me.
[guy who made the video] Romanek, who moved to Colorado after the recording, claims to have had more than 100 encounters with aliens, Rojas said.
Why didn't they release the full video?
70: I used to get chili peppers pretty frequently but no longer do. I may have to start working out. Or wearing chaps when I teach. Or not wearing chaps when I teach.
64: I learned how to play giant pianos from Big.
77: If anyone needs chili peppers, I have a freezer full of New Mexico green chiles. I just don't use 'em that often, but they are truly wonderful.
Or wearing chaps when I teach.
I would audit the class just to see this.
Mmm. I'd love to do some Hatch chile roasting.
81: I would do it if you would audit teach the class.
83: Okay, so: you audit, and I teach, and which one of us wears the chaps, again?
But then you wouldn't be teaching the class, Ari, so no chili pepper would eventuate.
So I just looked at RateMyProfessors for the first time. Not good at all. How depressing. Etc. Oh, well: I realize I'm late to the game about all that. Sorry.
What's the likelihood that when aliens arrive from outer space, they'll look exactly as pop culture has imagined them? Chalk one up for Weekly World News.
claims to have had more than 100 encounters with aliens
I love that movie and would watch it at the drop of a hat but damn, that's a lot of viewings.
What's the likelihood that when aliens arrive from outer space, they'll look exactly as pop culture has imagined them?
"Listen, crew, we're trying to conform to their privative cultural norms here. They've come to believe we're all three feet tall and look like goth frogs. I don't know any way to dress this up so I'll just say it: before we arrive on Earth there's going to be some pretty serious plastic surgery."
And then we'll shoot arrows at their ships anyway, because we're asses.
When did you stop wearing chaps to teach, Ari?
87: I once suggested in a chair's meeting at Crappy and Very Expensive Private School at Which I Used to Teach that ratings from that site should be factored into future tenure and promotion decisions. I qualified my motion by allowing that the number of chili peppers a faculty member received should not be weighed by the T and P committee. Five minutes of heated discussion ensued before the dean finally pointed out that I had been kidding. I'm told that news of my departure from Crappy and Very Expensive Private School at Which I Used to Teach was greeted with considerable celebration in some quarters of the university. But only because those philistines had never seen me teach while wearing chaps. Or so I tell myself.
Consider the pragmatics of the phrase "Eric and Ari are wearing chaps" as uttered on the Edge of the West, and as uttered in the center of Oxford.
90: When Mary Catherine stopped auditing my classes.
92: I was trying to think of a way to say that. Well done.
i thought chaps are some kind of slippers
looked it up and it's an even more weird thing to wear when teaching
I used to wear chaps to work, long ago. When I worked outside.
Some guys were born to wear chaps.
Definitely depends on what you teach. Horseback riding? Go ahead!
Definitely depends on what you teach.
I teach all-night seminars on love, laydeez chaps.
97 is odd. I strictly forbid cameras and other recording devices in my classes. Damn camera phones are very hard to detect.
I stumbled on this site last week and wasted several hours reading through the archives. It's a bunch of war stories about terrible students and general academic bitterness.
The MTV site is just awful, by the way. So typically overproduced, with the pointless and lame scratchy guitar intro to every video.
I did kind of enjoy the one woman relishing that her students think she's hot. I had a "nice dresser" comment on one of my evals this time around and it made my day.
love, chaps
An all-but-forgotten B-52's hit.
Hume's essay "On Miracles" helps with this problem. Where it is easier to believe that someone might have a reason to lie than to believe that their story might disrupt the very fabric of what we believe to constitute the real, let's assume the former is happening.
You don't believe that 97 is a picture of Ari? For shame.
I swear to God, Ari, I never meant to leak that photo to the media.
I stumbled on this site last week
Read the archives, this site used to be funny.
We saw an alien outside a window in Tuscany once.
You know, Ari and Eric, I was lurking over chez vous and saw you all being cranky with a certain commenter. And based on said commenter's initials I said, I bet that is A-----, whom I have known since I was 14. And lo and behold. So if he ever gets out of hand, just call me in.
106: That's alright, MC. Just send me a maple donut to make up for this breach. Oh, and cover my classes next week, 'kay?
My wife says it's clearly a puppy dog, probably a yellow lab.
I only skimmed this thread, did I miss a link to Grad School Professors Gone Wild? 'cause I'd totally sign up for a month's access to that.
42: Ben, Ben, Ben, they are *persons* in so far as they can set and pursue rational ends they are *human beings* in so far as they are members of our species. 'Person' is the moral term. 'Human being' is the biological term.
You'll never pass your qualifying exams at this rate.
Also, whether Luke and Leia are human beings depends a lot on what definition of "species" you use. Sure under Mayr's classic definition, they are members of our species, because we can probably interbreed with them (as countless fanboys have imagined). But if you use a more sophisticated Hull and Ghiselin style definition, they are not members of our species, because they belong to a very different lineage. I mean, how far back would you have to go to find a common ancestor?
I CANNOT SEE THE ALIEN. PLEASE HELP.
i know it depends on the display but don't you see something elliptical with two horizontal darker spots right in the middle of the lower part of the window?
an alien or not i don't know but the image looks like that
and i see more dark and white spots looking like ghosts, but it was dismissed as bushes
if i were someone taking the video i would try to open the window and catch if not it, then at least what sound it will make, footsteps or something else
see, irrational ends
116: Look just above the window sill in the horizontal center of the photo. It's a pale ellipse with 2 darker "eyes."
It took me a while to find it, too, because it's been years since I've seen Close Encounters and I'm out of practice.
this site used to be funny.
We're not as gay as we used to be.
This is worse than those fucking 3D stereogram things.
i don't know i enjoy far less the brasilian wax threads
the old threads people link sometimes, i don't know people commenting there so it seems less interesting
i thought i disliked that Standpipe guy who was like especially witty mocking me on welcome, turns out he was like the funniest guy around here, eb and JP Stormcrow's jokes i like too
good thing my antivirus refuses to show the apostropher's linked pictures so i see mcAfee red letters everytime i open it, so safe
the latest wax thread turns out was about chicken
so the least liked threads must be the swpls then
sate dou, shigoto shigoto
Alas, Standpipe (a possible lady) seldom comes around any more.
if he ever gets out of hand, just call me in
I'm putting you on speed-email, oud.
