# Alien are coming....tomorrow, Oct 14th **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 13, 2008, 12:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-are-coming-tomorrow-oct-14th/467700 "2008-10-13T12:27:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![nd\_n8](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/439d5e/32.png) [@nd\_n8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nd_n8)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-are-coming-tomorrow-oct-14th/467700/21 "2008-10-13T17:49:23Z")
> [@howye](#): > > Bacon _IS_ Love! _“Get Off My Lawn, Hippie.”_ (Make room for our extra-terrestrial guests.) ---
**Author:** ![Carl\_Corey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Carl\_Corey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carl_Corey)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-are-coming-tomorrow-oct-14th/467700/22 "2008-10-13T18:24:13Z")
If I was you guys I’d be worried about a possible invasion. After all, the last time you guys had uninvited guests show up on [Oct. 14](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_hastings), it didn’t go so well for you. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-are-coming-tomorrow-oct-14th/467700/23 "2008-10-13T18:29:24Z")
[The bookies are worried - there must be something to it.](http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/editors-choice/2008/10/13/bookies-suspend-bets-on-alien-landing-86908-20798802/):eek: ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-are-coming-tomorrow-oct-14th/467700/24 "2008-10-13T18:33:07Z")
Blossom Goodchild? Never heard of her. And after tommorow I doubt I will ever hear of her again. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-are-coming-tomorrow-oct-14th/467700/25 "2008-10-13T18:35:44Z")
> [@jali](#): > > They’re here. Didn’t you see the documentary “V” … Well, [the timing is uncanny](http://news.yahoo.com/s/eonline/20081011/en_movies_eo/63204)… ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-are-coming-tomorrow-oct-14th/467700/26 "2008-10-13T18:46:01Z")
> [@Carl\_Corey](#): > > If I was you guys I’d be worried about a possible invasion. > > After all, the last time you guys had uninvited guests show up on [Oct. 14](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_hastings), it didn’t go so well for you. That was in England old chap. This time they’re gonna land in the US of A;) Anyway: I, for one, oh sod it, never mind ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-are-coming-tomorrow-oct-14th/467700/27 "2008-10-13T19:00:54Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > You know, if it happens, you all will be feeling pretty silly. I already feel pretty silly. I doubt anyone will notice the change. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 7:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-are-coming-tomorrow-oct-14th/467700/28 "2008-10-13T19:11:34Z")
Thank you **chowder** for providing me with a rich but hitherto untapped resource of inadvertant humour. In particular this marvellously badly composed article about the prediction, absolutely awash with logical fallacies: [**Blossom Goodchild’s Predicted Mass UFO Sighting: Will it Force Disclosure to Occur?**](http://www.ufodigest.com/news/0908/blossom.html) I draw the readers’ particular attention to the YouTube video on page three, that has irrefutable proof of the veracity of her claims: namely her channeled alien allegedly said the words “snow cone”, and something someone claims to have seen in Florida in August looks a bit like a snow cone. I’m convinced. ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-are-coming-tomorrow-oct-14th/467700/29 "2008-10-13T19:52:00Z")
Nice article. Including the authors use of the sentence “Whoa.” Funny that the author doesn’t understand Dannion Brinkley making the statement “By the year 2008” means it should have happened already. ---
**Author:** ![ivan\_astikov](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@ivan\_astikov](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivan_astikov)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-are-coming-tomorrow-oct-14th/467700/30 "2008-10-13T19:58:38Z")
Say we’re watching the skies and they sneak up behind us? I suggest at least one of us keeps an eye on the ground in case they have an infantry division. ( Which makes me wonder…why was it called an **infant** ry? Doesn’t sound very threatening, does it? ) ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-are-coming-tomorrow-oct-14th/467700/31 "2008-10-13T20:01:04Z")
“People of the Earth…” I re-read _Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_ last night. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-are-coming-tomorrow-oct-14th/467700/32 "2008-10-13T20:45:20Z")
> [@Chimera](#): > > “People of the Earth…” > > I re-read _Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy_ last night. Well, you do have to build bypasses. I hope the aliens haven’t heard this bit of wisdom though. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-are-coming-tomorrow-oct-14th/467700/33 "2008-10-13T21:09:09Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > Nice article. Including the authors use of the sentence “Whoa.” > > Funny that the author doesn’t understand Dannion Brinkley making the statement “By the year 2008” means it should have happened already. I also like the false dichotomy of “either she’s correct or she’s a charlatan - but she couldn’t be a charlatan as it’d ruin her reputation”. By excluding the many other possibilities such as she’s temporarily deluded, undergoing a psychotic episode, permanently mad as a box of frogs, is banking on any publicity being good, or merely that she misheard her alien spirit guide who had a cold at the time, then by implication, she is vindicated! Take me away on your silver craft! ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-are-coming-tomorrow-oct-14th/467700/34 "2008-10-13T22:23:49Z")
After the current US news cycle, that would be a refreshing October Surprise! Perhaps the aliens come from a civilization particularly advanced on global finances. Now would be the time for some sweet lovin’ advice. ---
**Author:** ![Terrifel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c68b51/32.png) [@Terrifel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrifel)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-are-coming-tomorrow-oct-14th/467700/35 "2008-10-13T22:39:12Z")
So they’re supposed to appear in the sky, hang about for three days, and then leave? OH THANK YOU FEDERATION OF LIGHT! THANKS SO MUCH FOR SOLVING ALL OUR PROBLEMS! These guys are the cable repairmen of space aliens. We’re supposed to be overwhelmed with gratitude if they even show up on time; actually fixing anything is extra. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2008, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-are-coming-tomorrow-oct-14th/467700/36 "2008-10-13T22:39:17Z")
Or maybe, they’re (Hushed tones) Black. ---
**Author:** ![chowder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/977dab/32.png) [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-are-coming-tomorrow-oct-14th/467700/37 "2008-10-14T07:07:46Z")
_scans skies anxiously_ Nope, nothing. Maybe they stopped off at Alpha Centauri for a space burger or summink. On the other hand an exact time wasn’t specified for their appearance so I’ve got until midnight to be worried, or not ---
**Author:** ![cmyk](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cmyk/32/3353_2.png) [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 7:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-are-coming-tomorrow-oct-14th/467700/38 "2008-10-14T07:27:12Z")
> [@chowder](#): > > She said that they come in love and to help us move to a higher vibration of love. Great. They come 400 LYs to upgrade our porn. Boy, will they be surprised after such a long journey to find we have a hoo-hoo and a wee-wee, rather than a vornox and a bipleep. I can’t _wait_ to see the look on their reznips. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-are-coming-tomorrow-oct-14th/467700/39 "2008-10-14T09:48:39Z")
October surprise!! ---
**Author:** ![Ale](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@Ale](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ale)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2008, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-are-coming-tomorrow-oct-14th/467700/40 "2008-10-14T10:05:00Z")
> [@chowder](#): > > Well it would come in handy to put into the giant vibrators…with bacon salt of course That may sting a little… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-are-coming-tomorrow-oct-14th/467700.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/alien-are-coming-tomorrow-oct-14th/467700.md?page=3)