On Tuesday, January 3, 2006, at 05:45 PM, drmayf wrote:
> Ed Van Scoy wrote:
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>> Well, I do have a twitch occasionally... and a goofy lopsided grin..
>> I think it all started when I took a drive up the ET highway out by
>> area 51..
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> mayf
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Did I ever tell you about the time Nancy and I were on the Gold Wing
driving through the Area 51 neighborhood -- and way down the road up
ahead I saw flashing lights, like maybe a cop car? We kept riding, the
light(s) got closer and closer, and pretty soon sure enough here comes
not one not two but a whole batch of cop cars, the first of which
stopped us and made us get off the road. There wasn't much of a
shoulder -- the embankment went down about four or five feet, so I told
the guy I'd just stop on the skinny shoulder, but no, we had to move
off farther.
A bunch more cars, then a tractor-trailer rig pulling some giant-ass
weldment about thirty feet wide and thirty feet high and who knows how
the hell long. Damndest thing -- looked more like an underwater
drilling platform than anything else I could recall, and what the hell
would that be used for out there? Anyway, it passed, then a bunch more
escort cars, then we could proceed.
Alien ship landing platform, maybe. Tower to hold a nuclear bomb for
above ground testing? Maybe. Gantry for holding a transmitting
antenna to overpower foil helmets? Hey, that was probably what it was.
No, I didn't try to sneak a photo with our camera -- i think they
would have frowned on that!
Jon Wennerberg
Seldom Seen Slim Land Speed Racing
Marquette, Michigan
(that's 'way up north)
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