strangers among us!!

Some lefty friends of mine were at some union type meeting a while ago, where a guy from the audience complained about the real problem facing the Irish labour movement - the problem of substitution, whereby union leaders and activists are replaced by doubles working for THEM.

The guy chairing the meeting said "We are noting your address and will be visiting you for brain flushing purposes. The rest of you will be forgetting this discussion".

sorry: Javier Perez de Cuellar

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1) yes

2) yes

3) not quite sure - demi moore has been awfully quiet lately

4)we will still have striptease to remind us of the horror

5)indecent proposal was probe enough

"1. I think they exist. 1 in 9 chance of life on a planet (we know of 9 planets, one definetely has life, therefore, chance of life = high)"

It's considerably more than nine. You're more likely to inadvertently stumble upon a new planet than find a fiver in the street these days.

http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/space/04/05/new.planets/

I reckon there's a handful out there with intelligent life on them. Relative to Romford, anyway. Any planet out there has to have more of an atmosphere than the new Brewery shopping centre.

What Ned said. I think. I have this weird thing with conspiracy theories, I'm always rabidly skeptical because I have a feeling that if I allowed myself not to be then I'd end up believing pretty much every conspiracy theory ever. And people who do that and then just go, "Ahhh, but that's what they want you to think!" to any attempt at refutation really annoy me, and the world must be a scary scary place if you do believe them all.

Of course, conspiracy theories involving Bush, Afghanistan and oil are much more fun, I have plenty of time for those.

1. aliens only exist in the US, and have only been here since the 1950's. If God had created aliens we would know about it. 2. no 3. no 4. um I really just wanted to answer the probe question 5.

damn that enter key. now I can't be bothered writing my answer to 5. all over again.

mr. smythe are u teasing us?

if u are then i will continue. ahem. when i was about 8 or so i saw a ufo. my best friend josh will back me up. we were playing 1-on-1 football (american style) in my back yard when we heard a small WHINE, looked UP, and saw a PINK saucer-shaped vessel moving SLOWLY across the sky. so slowly that if we'd had our wits about us we could have taken a picture. alas we did not. my father remembers us rushing into the house hurly-burly, interrupting each other and excitedly spilling out each detail, making motions with our hands. however this sheds no light on whether aliens exist. it could have been a drone sent by a long-extinct race. of course it could also have been a surveying vessel. i was not probed. to my knowledge.

yes you were. we all were.