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Note: The following story was inspired by our grandsons when they were several years younger than now. If you don’t believe me, just ask me some time.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Back<\/em><\/strong> in the day, which was the day before a few thousand days before today, on a Saturday, during the summer, a large, pickle shaped meteorite fell to Earth with great screeching and flaming and smoke and kaboom. All the local folk saw it land in Clem Barfington’s corn field; and it seemed like just as soon as it hit the ground there was a crowd of curiosity seekers closing in to check it out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Several minutes after the meteorite landed, there was still quite a bit of smoke floating up from the cornfield crater. However, the smoke was very strange… it was bright orange with green and purple stripes; and had a very unique odor. Cindy Tringletoes was pretty close to the site, and had been breathing some of this strange vapor as the crowd grew. Suddenly, her eyes opened really wide as she took a couple long, deep sniffs. Then her face kind of twisted sideways as she started speaking out of the left side of her mouth and said, \u201cHmmm… smells like a combination of Zanga fruit and Brope noodles!!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After Cindy’s strange announcement, her Mom started to ask her what the HECK she was talking about; but was interrupted by a faint tapping noise coming from inside the meteorite. The tapping grew louder… louder… LOUDER<\/i><\/strong> and was quickly followed by a shrill noise as a part of the meteorite began to move. The movement continued and it quickly became apparent that some kind of door was opening out of the meteorite. The crowd gasped and stepped back quickly; and Steve Woofclank blurted out, \u201cUmmm folks?? This here ain’t no meteorite!!\u201d Of course by this time the crowd was pretty aware they were witnessing something very strange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The door opened completely and two strange beings climbed up from inside; and stepped out of what the crowd now knew to be some sort of space ship. A hush fell over the crowd as they stared in amazement. None of the townspeople had ever seen beings from outer space before; and the bright orange skin with green and purple stripes (very much like the strange smoke) fascinated them to the point that they all stood very still with their mouths open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The beings sensed that the crowd was amazed, and maybe even a bit frightened by what they were seeing; so they quickly spoke through their cravnabs to introduce themselves. And yes, like every strange story about space beings, the visitors knew English…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHello Fellow Universe Beings!!\u201d the first visitor said. \u201cMy name is Wognob, and this is my wife Bleeftok. We are Berg Snerfles from Mars, but I think we made a wrong turn near your moon. Hope we didn’t mess up your corn crop too badly when we landed.\u201d After Wognob uttered his greeting, he turned to his wife and whispered, \u201cOh my, these strange beings are rather weird looking, aren’t they??\u201d Bleeftok pinched Wognob’s cribnoot and whispered back, \u201cThe Creators made all beings in the Universe, we must not be rude to them even if we find them homely and smelling like Martian fish food.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then Bleeftok spoke up and said, \u201cWe need to get back to Mars soon because we’re missing the Celebration of Chiggles. But we’ll need some fuel and we hope you can help us.\u201d Cindy Tringletoes, still very wide-eyed, walked up to them and asked, \u201cI will help… what can I do?\u201d \u201cWell,\u201d Wognob said abruptly, \u201cwe believe your Earth has just the fuel we need. We’ve been receiving your television signals for many years, and we are pretty sure that if we could get some of your Lucky Charms and a little milk that would help quite a bit.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Very quickly, Bleeftok turned to Wognob with a puzzled look and asked, \u201cHow will that help our fuel situation??\u201d Wognob’s face turned turquoise as he looked at the ground and said, \u201cOK it won’t, but I’m hungry!\u201d The crowd laughed, but Cindy and Steve took off and quickly returned with several boxes of cereal, some milk, bowls, and spoons. It wasn’t long before everyone was sitting down while munching on Lucky Charms and telling stories about their children and the upcoming Firefly Festival.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bleeftok ate her share and stood up to thank everyone. \u201cWe very much appreciate your hospitality,\u201d she said happily. \u201cNow if we could just get a few hundred gallons of maple syrup and a pack of matches we can be on our way.\u201d George Frocksnibble shouted from the back, \u201cI have a load of syrup on the back of my pickup truck you can have!!\u201d \u201cThat’s right neighborly of you, George,\u201d said Bleeftok. So George backed his truck up near the space ship and Bleeftok jumped aboard and began slurping ALL the syrup out of the containers. Afterward, she got some matches from Brenda Shortsnout and pushed them into her left air sniffler.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bleeftok’s head began to wiggle strangely as she ran back into the space ship. Suddenly, what sounded like a huge sneeze came thundering out of the belly of the ship; and very soon afterward the outside lights started flashing as a whirring noise seemed to signify that the spaceship was starting up. With a startled look, Wognob dropped his bowl of cereal and ran over to the door of the ship and shouted a few things to Bleeftok, who was still inside. With a few nods of his head, he turned to the crowd, smiled, and shouted, \u201cSorry kids!! Gotta go!! Thanks for everything!!\u201d Then he jumped inside and the hatch closed behind him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The space ship shuddered a bit, then rose slowly as more orange smoke with green and purple stripes began to flow away from the landing site and over the crowd. Finally, there was a very large farting sound and the ship was gone. After getting a few sniffs of the weird smoke, the crowd all became very wide eyed and smiled broadly as they started reciting Martian poetry and did the Elbow Hooking Dance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wognob and Bleeftok were very grateful for all the help they received, and have been leaving messages of thanks on the insides of boxes of Lucky Charms ever since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The End (…for now)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m very certain this week’s cartoon exemplifies exactly what it’s like on Mars. Oh and don’t forget the second cartoon to enjoy Bimbo’s journey to the red planet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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