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A Terrible Miscalculation Of Scale

The title for this cache comes from one of my favorite moments in Douglas Adams' comedic, sci-fi adventure The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. It's actually less a moment and more of a passing mention that has no bearing on the plot of the novel. I laughed out loud the first time I read it. The whole scene from the beginning of Chapter 31 is quoted here for your enjoyment.

It is of course well known that careless talk costs lives, but the full scale of the problem is not always appreciated. For instance, at the very moment that Arthur said "I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle," a freak wormhole opened up in the fabric of the space-time continuum and carried his words far far back in time across almost infinite reaches of space to a distant Galaxy where strange and warlike beings were poised on the brink of frightful interstellar battle.

The two opposing leaders were meeting for the last time.

A dreadful silence fell across the conference table as the commander of the Vl'hurgs, resplendent in his black jewelled battle shorts, gazed levelly at the G'Gugvuntt leader squatting opposite him in a cloud of green sweet-smelling steam, and, with a million sleek and horribly beweaponed star cruisers poised to unleash electric death at his single word of command, challenged the vile creature to take back what it had said about his mother.

The creature stirred in his sickly broiling vapour, and at that very moment the words I seem to be having tremendous difficulty with my lifestyle drifted across the conference table.

Unfortunately, in the Vl'hurg tongue this was the most dreadful insult imaginable, and there was nothing for it but to wage terrible war for centuries.

Eventually of course, after their Galaxy had been decimated over a few thousand years, it was realized that the whole thing had been a ghastly mistake, and so the two opposing battle fleets settled their few remaining differences in order to launch a joint attack on our own Galaxy—now positively identified as the source of the offending remark.

For thousands more years the mighty ships tore across the empty wastes of space and finally dived screaming on to the first planet they came across—which happened to be the Earth—where due to a terrible miscalculation of scale the entire battle fleet was accidentally swallowed by a small dog.

When seeking the cache, please be stealthy, especially during business hours.

GCAM7EX

Wednesday, February 28, 2024

Club UFO - Happy National Chocolate Soufflé Day

👽 Only two of us today. One half of Benttandem and I had a great conversation about travels and bicycles. And other things along the way.

I was really impressed with our waitress. To my knowledge, she’s never waited on our group, but she still knew our usual drinks and entrees. Made me feel like family.

I know for sure that at least one ET likes candy-coated peanut butter and chilled golden lagers 😉. And then there’s me: this alien loves chocolate!

Thank you for hosting, LuckyFeather. God bless! Ephesians 2:8-9

Wandering but not lost,
myrthman (NtN065)
#3287

GCAKBM4

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