Story here. This is great! Three guys, presumably rednecks, in Georgia made world headlines with their “Martian monkey” 55 years ago.
Excerpt: “At the height of UFO hysteria then sweeping the nation, two young barbers and a butcher took a dead monkey in 1953, lopped off its tail and applied a liberal dose of hair remover and some green coloring to the carcass. Then they left the primate on an isolated road north of Atlanta in the pre-dawn hours of July 8, 1953, burning a circle into the pavement with a blowtorch before a police officer came around the curve in his patrol car.”
I’d like to think we’re more sophisticated today, at last so much so that no one’s going to believe a dyed monkey is from Mars. I’ll bet the average person’s knowledge today of space in general and Mars in paricular is more than the average person’s back then.
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Story here. This is great! Three guys, presumably rednecks, in Georgia made world headlines with their “Martian monkey” 55 years ago.
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Presumably rednecks? Upon what do you base this? I see nothing in the article to support this. Perhaps you are under the impression, as some are, that only rednecks inhabit Georgia.
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Presumably rednecks? Upon what do you base this? I see nothing in the article to support this.
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These guys claimed that they ran over a space alien with their pickup truck.
Their idea of a practical joke involved a blowtorch and a dead animal.
This one story is practically a Jeff Foxworthy HBO Special.
[QUOTE=CateAyo]
Presumably rednecks? Upon what do you base this? I see nothing in the article to support this. Perhaps you are under the impression, as some are, that only rednecks inhabit Georgia.
In other news, I apologize for the digression.
Hawk
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Oh, just a hunch.
(Full disclsore: I actually know an engineer in Atlanta who works for the state, and he’s not a redneck.)
