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Subject:Re: Pyramids & papyrus & humor From:"Susan W. Gallagher" <sgallagher -at- STARBASECORP -dot- COM> Date:Tue, 31 Jan 1995 09:42:15 -0800
> > > Most of us who have seen and/or climbed the pyramids believe
> > > that humans alone could not have floated blocks weighing tons
> > > 90 miles down the Nile and then put them together at tolerances
> > > of fractions of an inch. And then there are the 20-ton blocks raised
> > > 100 feet high in the temples.
> > I believe they did it alone without help from a UFO!
> > >
> uh, I may be going out on a limb here, but, uh,
> didn't this have something to do with Elvis?
Well, yeah. He was working the transporter on the Enterprise
at the time. They hit a wrinkle in the space/time continuum
and the rest is history. (Then he and cap'n Kirk went cruisin'
for chicks in the gamma quadrant.)
Sue Gallagher
sgallagher -at- starbasecorp -dot- com
