Re: GZG Official - New FT Releases, just in time!

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I was just going to say, "Isn't that the story of the Popplers?"

And ever since they discovered pigs are self aware, it has a real-life
analog. (Pigs may be self aware, but that doesn't stop bacon from being
delish...).

On Tue, Dec 18, 2012 at 2:47 PM, Douglas Evans <devans@nebraska.edu>
wrote:

> *blinding flash*
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> The birthing planet on Futurama!
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> Doug
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roger Burton West [mailto:roger@firedrake.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 2:32 PM
> To: gzg@firedrake.org
> Subject: Re: GZG Official - New FT Releases, just in time!
>
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 08:44:48AM +1300, John Tailby wrote:
> >I can see all sorts of jokes about beam weapons microwaving the
crusty
> ships and sauteing the crew. Boarding parties then bringing their own
> thousand island dressing and having a hangi as a victory celebration.
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> Makes a change from the ravening BEMs eating the humans, at least.
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> "The first diplomatic meetings with the Ch'k'net'tu went smoothly,
until a
> terrible accident led to the discovery that most humans found them
utterly
> delicious. After that, war, and their extinction, became inevitable."
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