02-28-2017, 09:43 AM
(02-27-2017, 07:42 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(02-25-2017, 09:48 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: If aliens invade, what do we do if they say "take me to your leader"?
I have long thought that an alien species capable of getting to Earth, with enough xeno language skills to have learned "take me to your leader", would have scouted out the planet well enough to have figured out quite a lot of what is going on.
I wonder... If they have really been watching us since the heyday of the 1950s UFO fads... "Take me to your minority whip?"
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