Space Eats

Another side effect of chatting with my brother on YIM.

It all started when my brother Larry got a DirectTivo system - Direct TV and super-Tivo. After getting it working, he finally caught a Good Eats program that he hadn't seen before (the Roulades one), and I responded with "You're probably getting Good Eats from other planets now."

We often use the Yahoo! Instant Messenger Doodle "IMvironment", a crude drawing tool, which is not too precise but both users can draw and see the results. So, after my remark, Larry drew the following picture, which led to the subsequent conversation:

funkster: "We hope we've showed you that, with a little care and a little knowhow, even Rigellian androcow flanks can be... good eats! See you next time."
minsq: The XQ#$%* recognizes 3 grades of Shnellian flontar eggs.
minsq: Green, and we do mean green.(says Jurjen)
funkster: Sorry, but for this recipe gaseous hydrogen Just Won't Do. We'll need to use liquid hydrogen to avoid fraying the glotal membranes.
minsq: You probably can't get liquid hydrogen at your regular grocery store. It's best to find a good fusion-monger in your town.
funkster: When I'm buying actonphages in solution, I don't care whether the mother was allowed to roam over an entire parsec dining on interstellar gas or if she was strapped in an electrified Bolnuk cage and force-fed dinium! I care about freshness.
minsq: This is practically a web page, you know.
funkster: What, Alton Brown from space?
minsq: Yes.
funkster: It's like some kind of weird mad-lib.
minsq: I know what you're thinking - outer-ringian space grubs are fattening, especially with depleted stonar sauce - but you won't be eating this every day, now will you?
funkster: "$&*, I need an intertial plasmoid separator. Whaddya got?" "This way, Mister Regilak."

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