Friday, April 29, 2005

Bad News

Osama Bin Ladin is not dead.

The obvious reference to Monty Python and the Holy Grail immediately comes to mind.

One day about a year ago I was driving over a section of highway that was laid over a swamp when I suddenly had the vision of Michael Palin as the Lord of Swamp Castle in command of space station Babylon Five:

"Everyone thought I was daft to build a space station in the Epsilon System..."

"Don't like her? She's got huge...Influence on the Gray Council!"

"You're marrying Satai Lucky, so you better get used to it!"

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.
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1 comment:

Leslie Bates said...

And then I thought:

"Don't like her? She's got huge...enormous...influence on the Gray Council!"

"Father...she's got gravitational influence!"

We now return you to your regularly scheduled reality.