# Ask the Extraterrestial **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [September 12, 2006, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-extraterrestial/372472 "2006-09-12T23:27:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-extraterrestial/372472/21 "2006-09-13T02:22:40Z")
How did you end up on this backward (but mostly harmless) planet? How did you get here? Brian ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-extraterrestial/372472/22 "2006-09-13T02:26:52Z")
[QUOTE=kunilou] What do you wear when you aren’t around humans? Most of the aliens I’ve seen (at least the ones who look more or less human) wear some sort of shiny jumpsuit. I’ve always suspected that was some sort of “dress uniform” designed to impress or intimidate us. Is that the standard costume, or do you put on something else when you’re barbecuing out behind the space ship or hang out with your homies? [/QUOTE] I’m partial to Grateful Dead shirts. Garcia was one of us. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-extraterrestial/372472/23 "2006-09-13T02:29:43Z")
[QUOTE=N9IWP] How did you end up on this backward (but mostly harmless) planet? How did you get here? Brian [/QUOTE] Got caught banging a Sector Overlord’s daughter. The ride here was on an intergalactic garbage scow. ---
**Author:** ![mrald](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3da27b/32.png) [@mrald](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mrald)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-extraterrestial/372472/24 "2006-09-13T02:41:12Z")
Please, if you are going to take me, take me. Stop hovering over my house, and peeping in the windows. (That tin foil got you for a day or two though! Right) ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-extraterrestial/372472/25 "2006-09-13T02:44:38Z")
[QUOTE=mrald] Please, if you are going to take me, take me. Stop hovering over my house, and peeping in the windows. (That tin foil got you for a day or two though! Right) [/QUOTE] Do not underestimate the power of the tinfoil. It makes for an efficient way to eliminate obvious defectives from our breeding program. ---
**Author:** ![the\_chicken\_of\_exeter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ac8455/32.png) [@the\_chicken\_of\_exeter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_chicken_of_exeter)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-extraterrestial/372472/26 "2006-09-13T02:52:19Z")
How do you support those giant heads with those twiggy little bodies? ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-extraterrestial/372472/27 "2006-09-13T02:59:40Z")
[QUOTE=the chicken of exeter] How do you support those giant heads with those twiggy little bodies? [/QUOTE] Those stereotypes were invented by your government. We find them amusing. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-extraterrestial/372472/28 "2006-09-13T03:21:26Z")
What’s yer home planet like? ---
**Author:** ![oy\_vay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/258eb7/32.png) [@oy\_vay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oy_vay)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-extraterrestial/372472/29 "2006-09-13T03:24:01Z")
Using your advanced science is it possible to give a cat a bath without massive blood loss (or your local equivalent of blood)? ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-extraterrestial/372472/30 "2006-09-13T03:28:32Z")
[QUOTE=elelle] What’s yer home planet like? [/QUOTE] It is very shiny. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 3:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-extraterrestial/372472/31 "2006-09-13T03:30:29Z")
[QUOTE=oy vay] Using your advanced science is it possible to give a cat a bath without massive blood loss (or your local equivalent of blood)? [/QUOTE] Cat bathing is high on our list of useful tasks your species can perform after we take over. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Gaucho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ea5d25/32.png) [@El\_Gaucho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Gaucho)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-extraterrestial/372472/32 "2006-09-13T03:34:04Z")
What exactly is the “music of the spheres”? ---
**Author:** ![oy\_vay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/258eb7/32.png) [@oy\_vay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/oy_vay)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-extraterrestial/372472/33 "2006-09-13T03:39:19Z")
[QUOTE=Oakminster] Cat bathing is high on our list of useful tasks your species can perform after we take over. [/QUOTE] So if you’re taking over then the Vogan demolition fleet was canceled? ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-extraterrestial/372472/34 "2006-09-13T03:39:35Z")
[QUOTE=El Gaucho] What exactly is the “music of the spheres”? [/QUOTE] **Free Bird** by Lynyrd Skynyrd. Ronnie was one of us. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-extraterrestial/372472/35 "2006-09-13T03:44:42Z")
[QUOTE=oy vay] So if you’re taking over then the Vogan demolition fleet was canceled? [/QUOTE] We won exploitation rights when the Vogans went all in on a low straight. The Supreme Overlord, (aka the HMFIC), had a full boat, Aces over tens. ---
**Author:** ![elelle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f0a364/32.png) [@elelle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elelle)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-extraterrestial/372472/36 "2006-09-13T03:44:44Z")
Shiney, Ok, Happy nice as well? Or just shiney like our Earth Hollywood shiney thang, a phantasmagoric gloss and effort in story-telling? On another bent: What do you think about spiders here on Earth? ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-extraterrestial/372472/37 "2006-09-13T03:47:46Z")
[QUOTE=elelle] Shiney, Ok, Happy nice as well? Or just shiney like our Earth Hollywood shiney thang, a phantasmagoric gloss and effort in story-telling? On another bent: What do you think about spiders here on Earth? [/QUOTE] Shiney, with good plumbing. Spiders have to be somewhere, and here is conveniently out of the way. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-extraterrestial/372472/38 "2006-09-13T21:24:48Z")
[QUOTE=elelle] On another bent: What do you think about spiders here on Earth? [/QUOTE] Spider Robinson, of course, is one of us. ---
**Author:** ![Trion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ccd318/32.png) [@Trion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trion)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-extraterrestial/372472/39 "2006-09-13T22:24:31Z")
Could you please stop bringing back Whitley Streiber? Next time you take him, just keep him. ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2006, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-extraterrestial/372472/40 "2006-09-13T22:37:40Z")
[QUOTE=Oakminster] I’m partial to **Grateful Dead** shirts. Garcia was one of us. [/QUOTE] Oh My Og…He/She (op) IS for real and knows the TRUTH…why did you take him back WAY too soon?? Oh great **Oakminster** , if I may ask…'If og is all powerfull can She/He make a rock so heavey that He/She can not lift~?~? tsfr [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-extraterrestial/372472.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ask-the-extraterrestial/372472.md?page=3)