“I speak all your simple silly languages. All of them spoken on your radio programs anyway, and whatever other ones there are I can pick up in an hour or so apiece. Easy stuff. You’d never learn Martian in a thousand years.”
— A Martian speaking to Luke Devereaux, in Frederic Brown’s very funny science fiction classic, Martians, Go Home (1955)
David Huie Green AmericaIsGreatItHasUs about 3 years ago
YOU try to write with a tentacle at 3 times your normal weight!!
dwane.scoty1 about 3 years ago
You need, Agnes, an alluring merchantizer to hump samples. Trout is a natural for that gig!
rshive about 3 years ago
I couldn’t even find anyone from Mars to teach me.
well-i-never about 3 years ago
Is this one of those expensive stands that doesn’t list its prices?
gopher gofer about 3 years ago
martian is just greek to me…
joegeethree about 3 years ago
Here’s hoping our lovely little Agnes isn’t on the road to scamdom.
Sir Isaac about 3 years ago
Maybe they’ll catch on like the Mars Bar.
RuComm about 3 years ago
Maybe she should package each one with a Moon Pie.
paullp Premium Member about 3 years ago
She’s knows what she’s talking about:
“I speak all your simple silly languages. All of them spoken on your radio programs anyway, and whatever other ones there are I can pick up in an hour or so apiece. Easy stuff. You’d never learn Martian in a thousand years.”
— A Martian speaking to Luke Devereaux, in Frederic Brown’s very funny science fiction classic, Martians, Go Home (1955)