I rarely pass along internet funnies, but this one brightened an otherwise ragged Friday so I thought I'd share it:
Many of you will recall that on July 8, 1947, a little over 60 years ago, witnesses claim that an unidentified flying object (UFO) with five aliens aboard, crashed onto a sheep and cattle ranch just outside Roswell , New Mexico. This is a well known incident that many say has long been covered up by the U.S. Air Force and other federal agencies and organizations.
However, what you may NOT know is that in the month of April 1948, nine months after that historic day, the following people were born:
Albert A. Gore, Jr.
Hillary Rodham
John F. Kerry
William J. Clinton
Howard Dean
Nancy Pelosi
Dianne Feinstein
Charles E. Schumer
Barbara Boxer
I certainly hope this bit of information clears up a lot of things for you. It did for me.
UPDATE: For those who didn't get that this is a joke (notice I prefaced this with the phrase "internet funnies"), and the ridiculous coincidence this would really be, please see Bill's comments below, where he corrects my dates and directs me to check my jokes in the future at snopes.com.
Most of your information is wrong. Feinstein was born in 1933; Pelosi in 1940; Boxer was born in 1940 too; Kerrry in 1943; Pres. Clinton in 1946; Dean in 1948 and Schumer in 1950. Hillary Clinton was born 3 months after Roswell. Only Al Gore was born in the right time frame.
Use snopes.com to check your urban legends.
Posted by: Bill Scott | March 08, 2009 at 01:32 PM
Gee, Bill, I was passing along a joke. Sorry you had no sense of humor about it. Maybe next time I will put "JOKE" in large block letters when I try this again. But what I need to know is this - do you feel better now?
Posted by: Trimble | March 08, 2009 at 10:13 PM
"Only Al Gore was born in the right time frame."
SEE!!! It's all true!!!!
Cheers
Posted by: J.M. Heinrichs | March 08, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Aliens don't have human gestation periods. So it's all gotta be true. I mean who really thinks Pelosi is a human? She's got enough botox in her to kill an elephant.
Posted by: saint | March 09, 2009 at 09:55 AM
The original joke from the internet also said something about cohabitation of aliens and sheep, because the actual crash was on a sheep farm, but I deleted that part. However, given Saint's comment, I had to mention this because the permutations once one includes the gestational period of sheep make this list, indeed, possible. I'm having trouble, with the image of an elephant with an immovable trunk, though.
I'm fairly certain our new President would like for Pelosi to botox her mouth, although every time she opens it she makes him look more centrist.
Posted by: Trimble | March 09, 2009 at 11:23 AM
David, I loved the joke. And considering what we now know about Snopes. Well. Enough said.
Posted by: Jackie | March 17, 2009 at 09:28 PM
Jackie, is this (http://xkcd.com/250/) what you were referring to?
Posted by: Matthew | July 11, 2009 at 08:30 PM