... Yet Still They Come

What the heck? Why can I hear The Eve of the War playing? What's that? "Meteor lands on Horsell Common"...?

OH HELL NO!!!

Now, If you excuse me, I'm going to buy a gas mask, a thermal protection suit and them I'm off overseas on a nice, long holiday! Tatty-bye!

BenRG wrote:Tatty-bye!

Nice Bo' Selecta' reference.

I must be the only one who noticed Art gets fatter when he exercises and that Kat's got extraordinarily flat chested.
Pardon my perviness. There must be something in the water.

cenaris wrote:
I must be the only one who noticed Art gets fatter when he exercises and that Kat's got extraordinarily flat chested.

Special bra.

A sports bra and sweat shirt combination can make just about every woman look flat chested. Unless you are huge.

I swear, if you English were better armed you wouldn't have to worry about the occasional alien invasion.

They got squirrels. They are REALLY good armed.

I have to wonder if the Martians will even recognize Art now.

Or maybe he gets thin, and then has to drink the muto-joose again to "disguise" himself and make them go away.

appleclock wrote:They got squirrels. They are REALLY good armed.

Except with the Quads track record you have a decent probability of accidently doing the aliens job for them...

I didn't even think about there really being a Horsell Common. So lucky for us here is Australia, we're safe until the "flying machines" are built.

The Cellphone Tellybooth is right interesting unless it's a bin then well I'm out of my bloody mind. Fighting off hordes of aliens might count as strenuous activity.

TheGreatHibiki wrote:The Cellphone Tellybooth is right interesting unless it's a bin then well I'm out of my bloody mind. Fighting off hordes of aliens might count as strenuous activity.

MARTIAN: Human! As punishment for violating our territorial space, we will inflict upon you the most terrible punishment imaginable to our kind! We will strip away your body fat, reducing you from a corpulant being of leisure to a slim, trim creature fit for manual labour! Ha! Your minions will never respect you again! Ha! Mwahahahahahaaa!

PIP (whispering): His 'minions' don't respect him anyway, Slimy!

SCARLET: But Mister Aleen! Art wants all his fattiness g...

KAT slaps her hand over SCARLET's mouth

MARTIAN: What was that, oh concubine of our foe?

KAT: Nothing. She's mentally subnormal and continually babbles nonsense.

MARTIAN: Oh. Anyway, to the De-Corpuliser Chamber with him and let his cries of horror be a reminder to the next eleven genrations of our might! MwahahahaHAAA!!!

I found myself in the area of Horsell this weekend - so thought I'd go check out the carnage

Obviously they've cleaned up behind them as there wasn't any evidence of crashed alien craft... but I found something that looks a bit alien, and a lot of White Clad warriors performing a strange ritual on a green expanse

Welcome to Horsell
Stone alien?
White magic ritual?

Twangy Rubber wrote:White magic ritual?

That is no magical ritual. You have stumbled upon a group of robots from a planet called Krikket. The Krikketeers have only one thing on their minds: the destruction of the entire universe! You are lucky to be alive!

FWIW, I've always thought that they should have made a second Fighting Machine model when they were building that one for Jeff Wayne's War of the Worlds Live concerts and put it on Horsell Common. Put a joke historical marker next to it, identifying it as the intact Fighting Machine salvaged from the Martians' Primrose Hill encampment and that it has been left there as a memorial to all the victims of the invasion (Surrey was particularly hard hit).

The tourist money alone would have made it worth it, along with the humour value from the poor, idiots who would think it is a real alien invasion and run screaming through the streets! Given the power of false history (people assuming that events they see on TV and in the movies are real), how long after erecting the model before people would start talking about War of the Worlds being a record of an actual event?

Vorp Vorp Vorp! I'm loving it so far.