Sunday 9 June 2013

"Is Mankind a Board Game?" 1973

Scarfolk had its fair share of UFO/deity conspiracies in the 1970s. The town's resident UFO expert Bert Cage insisted that extraterrestrials have intervened in mankind's development for generations,  introducing technology and even manipulating our genes.

He claimed the otherwordly visitors have been responsible for: irrigation, rockets, fax machines, polyester bed sheets, dental floss and cocktail umbrellas; not to mention genetic emotional states such as: the disappointment one has seeing the film adaptation of a favourite book and the amusement one feels when seeing a cat fall over.

According to Cage, there are also several significant changes due to mankind very soon. These include: Geo-spankhens (eta: 2017), colonspicers (2019) and the shame one feels for having eaten cabbage for so many years not realising that it's actually an animal (2032).

6 comments:

  1. Oh. Well. "The Daily Mail" say it's okay, so who am I to question it?

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  2. "M Danone" a quick read and you'll feel less bloated too!

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  3. I need this as a t-shirt, now, please.

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  4. I think this may be a hoax

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  5. I may need to share this with a discussion group I'm in...

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  6. I believe he followed this up with Arcades of the Gods, in which he postulated that life was in fact a video game, mainly because he felt he had strong evidence that god was play with his joystick each night.

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