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What a buzz
« on: January 15, 2008, 03:24:11 PM »
My buddy and I are out in my yard for some reason, and we hear this loud buzzing noise coming from the neighbor's side of the fence.  We look up and there is something flying around the tops of the trees.  At least, it was largish compared to the type of thing you expect to hear buzzing coming from.  I wave at the neighbor (who is totally oblivious) while we go over to investigate, and what we see is curious indeed (although you would think it would be downright mindblowing). 

It's not entirely clear if it's biological or mechanical, but it is about the size of one of those tube containers from the bank.  The body is clearly segmented like an armadillo, and there is a bubble in the front like an astronaut's helmet.  There are some arms underneath toward the bubble that are holding some kind of instrument that appears to be a reversed french horn (the business end is the small end). 

The Thing comes down and lands relatively gently in the grass, and doesn't move anymore.  As we come up on it, we see that somehow the french horn is now inside the bubble, and we can also see the "pilot"'s face.  It looks kind of like a cross between a wolf and an alligator, with very dark colored bluish-brown, rhinoceros-like skin.  It is clearly alive, but of course we can't decode its expression. 
Naturally, I pick it up and take it to a rabbit hutch I apparently have. 

I start messing with the segments, and they come right apart, like plastic that has been sitting out in the sun for too long.  Out from inside comes the most hardcore bumblebee you ever imagined.  It's about the size of one, possibly a little larger, maybe the size of one of those waterbugs you sometimes see, but it's buzzing like a mother fucker.  You can feel the vibration of its wingflaps in your skull and in your chest, as if the bass is turned up too high.  It's buzzing all around my head but apparently doesn't have a stinger, because I am able to grab it and trap it under a dish, after which it quiets down.  This goes on for a few minutes, after which I look over at my friend, and I see that he has the pilot out of the machine.  It is no longer moving.  I look at my friend, who looks back at me with a "what are you looking at" expression, and I calmly explain to him that he was probably sealed up inside his airtight spacesuit for a reason. 

It's about at this point where I wake up.  The only reason I'm fairly certain it was a dream is because the neighbors are new, and I haven't met them yet.  I am open to the possibility that it was a psychic dream that is predicting the future.  Also, I don't have a rabbit hutch.

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Re: What a buzz
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2008, 04:17:21 PM »
Quote from: Joe Sixpack on January 15, 2008, 03:24:11 PM
Also, I don't have a rabbit hutch.

That was the part that clued me in that something was up with this story.
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Re: What a buzz
« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2008, 04:33:26 PM »
I was thinking, "Does DARPA have a lab out in Texas?"
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Re: What a buzz
« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2008, 04:34:06 PM »
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Re: What a buzz
« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2008, 04:50:26 PM »
Perhaps it was an undigested bit of beef, a blot of mustard, a crumb of cheese, a fragment of an underdone potato.
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Re: What a buzz
« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2008, 04:55:54 PM »
Or, in fact, The Ghost Of Extraterrestrial Armadillo Bee People Past.
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Re: What a buzz
« Reply #6 on: January 15, 2008, 04:57:34 PM »
In an infinite universe, there are infinite possibilities.
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Re: What a buzz
« Reply #7 on: January 15, 2008, 05:32:15 PM »
Ya, so how come we get stuck with all the boring ones?
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Re: What a buzz
« Reply #8 on: January 15, 2008, 05:36:28 PM »
Not all the boring ones.  There are an infinite amount of those.
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Re: What a buzz
« Reply #9 on: January 15, 2008, 05:59:47 PM »
I was thinking maybe you were part of that large group of people in Texas who saw the UFO (within the last day or two).
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Re: What a buzz
« Reply #10 on: January 15, 2008, 06:11:33 PM »
In an infinite Texas, there are infinite UFO sightings.
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Re: What a buzz
« Reply #11 on: January 15, 2008, 06:21:42 PM »
And guns!
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Re: What a buzz
« Reply #12 on: January 15, 2008, 06:47:18 PM »
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Re: What a buzz
« Reply #13 on: January 15, 2008, 07:53:29 PM »
And I would have thought that an impossibility if I hadn't seen it with my infinite eyes.
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Re: What a buzz
« Reply #14 on: January 16, 2008, 12:48:09 AM »
No, mine was clearly identified.
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Re: What a buzz
« Reply #15 on: January 16, 2008, 01:13:00 AM »
i can see with buddha eyes.
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