It wasn’t astronauts who were drunk. It was aliens.
Alien 1: Duuuuude. My head is aching.
Alien 2: No kidding. Your antennae are bloodshoot, man, they are soooo green!
Alien 1 [moaning]: How much cow anus did I do last night?
Alien 2: I dunno, man, but look at what you did to that field!
Alien 1: Whoa! That’s worse than when I dropped those flares on Phoenix!
Alien 2 [laughing]: That was righteous. C’mon. Let’s go back to Roswell and pretend we’re just wearing costumes.
Alien 3: Gnarly.
Tip o’ the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster to Bob at Junkmail.
August 5th, 2007 at 10:34 am
Dude, pass the bong
August 5th, 2007 at 10:41 am
See, the problem is that the cow anus of today isn’t the cow anus that the older aliens grew up with. No, it is *much* more potent cow anus, thanks to the introduction of antibiotics in the feed, and combined with the selective breeding programs of the Big Cow Anus Conglomerate. Oh, I think that radiation has something to do with it, too.
August 5th, 2007 at 10:44 am
So these aliens were stuck in the 1980′s?
August 5th, 2007 at 11:19 am
The vegan corn borer (Xenostrinia shymalenis Rico, 1997) is a non-native, invasive species. Although similar to longhorn beetles, both larvae and adults may be distinguished from their terrestrial counterparts based on their relatively larger size, exotic behavior, internal skeletons and minor differences in their tracheal systems. Cladistic analysis will invariably place them as outgroups with any terrestrial lifeform.
The larvae mine cornfields, often producing extensive mining galleries, some of which can actually be seen from space, see Fig 1A above. Pupation occurs in the mining galleries. Adults may be reared from larvae in situ or captured during mating flights.
Entomologists wishing to add a vegan corn borer specimen to their collections should be mindful that even small specimens will require specialized kill jars (1000 m^3 or greater), large amounts of killing agent (please consult your 49 CFR for regulations on transportation of hazardous substances), and oversized insect pins, all of which may be obtained from Larson X-Entomology Suppliers, Inc. Also, it is useful to remember that vegan corn borers, unlike the terrestrial corn borers, are adventitious feeders and likely won’t hesitate to dine on entomologists as well as corn.
August 5th, 2007 at 11:24 am
That’s cool – a crop circle so complex and so deep that it appears to simple minds like ours to be the behaviour of drunken yahoos in a pickup truck. I wonder what they’re trying to tell us? I bet it’s the secret to world peace.
August 5th, 2007 at 12:42 pm
Hey…wait…if you squint at it, isn’t that a 3D geometric resolution of the Riemann Hypothesis?
August 5th, 2007 at 1:13 pm
Dude, my dad owns a *dealership*.
August 5th, 2007 at 1:28 pm
More evidence of His Great Noodliness!
August 5th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Alien researcher #1 “See?”
Alien researcher #2 “No. I still don’t get it.”
Alien researcher #1 “They do it because it’s funny!”
Alien researcher #2 “But it’s not. We just wrecked some dude’s crop.”
Alien researcher #1 “Well, maybe we just didn’t do it right.”
Alien researcher #2 “I’m tellin’ ya, they do it to worship invisible people in the sky.”
Alien researcher #1 “You mean us? Nah, they’re not as dumb as you think they are.”
Alien researcher #2 “Are you kidding? Have you seen that guy they put in that big white house?”
Alien researcher #1 “Good point. Maybe we should just come back in a few thousand years.”
Alien researcher #2 “I don’t think we’ll need to bother.”
August 5th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
Real Crop Circles…
A peek above our garters to Dr. BA over at BadAstronomy for posting an image of these real crop circles…
It wasn’t astronauts who were drunk. It was aliens.
I have a somewhat different interpretation though, as posted in the comments:
Alien res…
August 5th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
No! No!
It is the 11-dimensional string of a strange-quark!
It is just that obvious, it can’t be something else!
August 5th, 2007 at 2:00 pm
I see Elvis and Jesus. I think they’re mating with Marilyn Monroe.
August 5th, 2007 at 3:38 pm
Post of the year.
August 5th, 2007 at 4:13 pm
I believe Sticks started a thread about this pic on BAUT. Looks like a couple of yahoos in an SUV got hold of some bad moonshine. That poor farmer must have been PO’ed when he saw the damage.
August 5th, 2007 at 4:42 pm
This pic has been circulating on the net for a while. It was the end result of someone trying to evade local law enforcement.
August 5th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
Hmm.
Mr Squiggle’s been smoking the weed again.
August 5th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
Aussies will know what I meen.
Folcrom
August 5th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
Alien 1: “Hey, do we have any of that Plutonian Nyborg left?”
Alien 2: “Uh, yeah. Just one bag. Uh, it’s in the transmitter compartment”
Alien 1: “Look, man, if there’s one thing I know, it’s how to drive while I’m stoned. You know your perception is completely f*****d so you just let your hands work the controls as if you were straight. “
August 5th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
Aliens playing golf-cart polo?
Or maybe…
“Dude, he’s getting away!”
“No he ain’t, I’ll get him!”
“Crap, he’s heading for the road! Get ‘em!”
“Dude, I got it! You just keep that anal probe ready, and let me stinkin’ drive!”
“I don’t think he wants to be part of the experiment…”
“There’s an experiment?”
August 5th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
Seriously though.
The wheel ruts do give it away.
JANOD – Just Aother Nutbag On Drugs.
Folcrom
August 5th, 2007 at 11:09 pm
It’s a stereogram. If you stare at it long enough, you see a dolphin!
August 5th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
That’s the wife giving me directions from a map while I drive….
August 6th, 2007 at 1:15 am
DarthTed: And the next thing he did was plow straight through the space-station, wasn’t it?
August 6th, 2007 at 2:24 am
Lol this is old
it happend over here in The Netherlands a while back ago. It was a teen kid who made a joyride with his dad’s car, while he was stoned.
Here you have a movie of this
http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/18767/408fb303/index.html
August 6th, 2007 at 2:26 am
edit my previous post, it whas a guy by the age of 35 with his dad’s car, he was under the influence of cocaine
August 6th, 2007 at 5:10 am
[Rick James]“Cocaine’s a helluva drug”[/Rick James.]
August 6th, 2007 at 5:46 am
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August 6th, 2007 at 6:42 am
Etch-A-Crop
August 6th, 2007 at 7:14 am
I can not remember starting a thread about crop circles
I did mention them here in one piece of debunking.
The guy who caused the damage in this image was high on cocaine.
August 6th, 2007 at 8:28 am
Alien Art School Drop-Out
August 6th, 2007 at 8:53 am
Looks like Roomba’s first attempt and automatic lawn-mowing.
August 6th, 2007 at 9:53 am
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August 6th, 2007 at 11:29 am
I remember reading about this article. I believe it was a driver on cocaine evading capture by police. Wonder what the aliens must be thinking of this signal, heh?
August 6th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
It’s uncanny how they got ahold of the MRI of my intestines. How do they do it?!
August 6th, 2007 at 8:14 pm
My only question is:-
Did the farmer invoice the culprit for the obvious crop losses?
I know I would have.
Folcrom
August 7th, 2007 at 12:03 am
This is funny!
Thanks for the Heavy Metal reference, DarthTed. Fits perfectly.
August 7th, 2007 at 4:06 am
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August 9th, 2007 at 6:14 pm
I’ve seen this message before: the reason why Southern Methodist University is building the George W. Bush Presidential Library is to preserve an exact copy of this message when it was written as George W.’s intended concession speech in the 2000 election. Both read “Uhhhh…like, this sucks worse than anything has ever sucked before. Huh huh huh huh.”
August 10th, 2007 at 10:16 am
Could it be the trade routes of the Zeta Reticulans? Let’s see what Marjorie Fish makes of this one (a reference for Old Timers).
Ian
August 10th, 2007 at 12:51 pm
Well, BA, it depends on what you mean by aliens. Those troublesome Grays are always getting drunk and doing stuff like this. We Vegans are outraged by the very thought…
I’m proficient in conversational Gray, and this is just the kind of graffiti they leave on our planet. It looks like bragging about commiting a crime of some kind… roughly, the culprit disguised itself as a human, told some humans that your technology is too primitive to reach your moon (It is, in fact, exceptional for a spicies at your evolutionary level) … the humans believed it… a human punched the culprit… and the rest is cursing at this human.
This makes no sense to me. Perhaps some of you comprehend?
June 23rd, 2008 at 12:08 pm
This has got to be made by aliens. No human would make a crop circle like this.
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