Article: 261468 of talk.bizarre From: Andrew Solberg <andsol@cml.rice.edu> Newsgroups: talk.bizarre Subject: 13x100 Date: 1 Dec 1995 14:09:08 -0500 Organization: iTRiBE Mail to News Gateway Lines: 26 Sender: nobody@athos.itribe.net Message-ID: <49njsk$e6e@athos.itribe.net> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] X-Provider: iTRiBE, Inc <URL: http://www.itribe.net/> X-Gateway: Posted via the iTRiBE News<->Email gateway X-Disclaimer: iTRiBE, Inc. neither endorses nor assumes any responsibility for the contents of this posting. Status: O LUCIFER'S RUBBER TRUNCHEON ************************** The object was thirty miles long and fourteen deep. It tumbled end-over-end on an Earth-intercept course. As it passed inside Neptune's orbit, high-resolution telescopes revealed its topography bore an unnerving resemblance to Bozo the Clown's head. Quickly exhausting conventional strategems, scientists implemented non-standard solutions. Unfortunately, the enormous spring-loaded boxing glove experienced navigational problems. The giant seltzer bottle failed to deflect the meteor. Eventually the catastrophe was heroically averted by a kamikaze cream pie the size of Chicago. This universe contains puzzles beyond the ken of science. We must expect encounters that are not merely strange and mysterious, but downright goofy. -- This post is COPYRIGHT 1995, Andrew Solberg. All rights reserved. Standard usenet distribution is acceptable; other forms of reproduction or reprinting may be considered in violation of international copyright law. Andrew Solberg is HWRNMNBSOL: andsol@cml.rice.edu, Math Dept., Rice U.