Sunday, January 27, 2008

The Kahuna-Darth Teddy Messages: Part 7 - The Way of the Sheep

KINGTON, Herefordshire -- A few days ago, mysterious goings-on were reported from this quiet market town near the Welsh border. According to eyewitness accounts about a hundred sheep were seen forming an almost-perfect circle in a roadside field, causing great astonishment among the local populace.

While crop circles seem to be more commonplace, this would appear to be the first reported occurrence of a sheep circle. Very little is known about this bizarre phenomenon, leading Kahuna to suspect that dark powers were at play. This naturally led to a confrontation with Darth Teddy, who is coincidentally located a little over a hundred and thirty miles away in Watford.

Kahuna      : Did you have anything to do with this?
Darth Teddy : Er no, crop circles are Gordon's
department.
Kahuna : That was my initial suspicion as well
but, the sheep led me in your
direction.
Darth Teddy : Er, I believe you are the one that is
dodgy with sheep, so I think this is
all your doing.
Kahuna : Nonsense, you are the one who mistook
one for a dog.
Darth Teddy : You are well known for getting sheep
in trouble.
Kahuna : That sheep in question was not burying
a bone.
Darth Teddy : In conclusion, I believe you are
responsible for leading these sheep
astray, or in a circle as the case may
be.
Kahuna : And you were attempting to accuse an
innocent sheep of falsifying the
fossil record.
Darth Teddy : Irrelevant; your sympathy towards said
sheep prove further that you are
leading them astray.
Kahuna : That's hogwash and you know it.
Bernisdale was just the beginning; I
should have paid more attention to the
signs. You are clearly the Sheep
Whisperer.
Darth Teddy : Ha! A weak attempt to hide from the
truth. Your attempts to lead sheep to
the dark side are well known. This
time the farmer's tractor just got
there in time I believe.
Kahuna : A likely story! Was the collie in on
this as well?
Darth Teddy : I don't know, do you have control over
them too?
Kahuna : I had nothing to do with this X-(
You're attempting to subvert this
conversation to cover your tracks.
Darth Teddy : Denial, the first sign of a guilty
conscience.
Kahuna : No doubt you offered the collie a bone
in exchange for its involvement.
Darth Teddy : Tut, tut, I believe the collie was put
under a spell by you before all this.
Kahuna : Spell? Are you accusing me of teaching
it a foreign language?
Darth Teddy : I don't know, did you?
Kahuna : Certainly not. It all fits into place
now. You've been blackmailing collies
to round up sheep in circles.
Darth Teddy : Anyway, enough of this sheep talk.
Kahuna : You can't speak fluent sheep anyway
X-(
Darth Teddy : And thus the final piece of the puzzle
as to who manipulated the sheep.
Kahuna : Indeed, the Dog Whisperer.
Darth Teddy : [SIGH] Make up your mind.
Kahuna : You were attempting to mislead us all.
Since you couldn't influence the
sheep, you got to the collie X-(
Darth Teddy : Yeah, yeah; your details have been
passed on to the FBI.

Readers familiar with the adventures of Kahuna and Darth Teddy will recall a previous altercation involving sheep in the cat-infested desolation of Bernisdale on the Isle of Skye. At the time, Kahuna—who speaks fluent sheep—sparked controversy when He attempted to communicate with the some of the incumbent creatures. Tensions were raised further with Darth Teddy claiming to see a sheep burying some manner of ossicular trophy. The matter has not been satisfactorily resolved to this day and continues to be a bone of contention.

The anaconda keeper's motive behind the sheep circle remains a mystery, but is suspected to be nefarious. Kahuna vowed to get to the bottom of the matter and indicated that He will interview the sheep involved during the next few days. It was not immediately clear if He would be yapping with the collie as well.

No sheep were harmed during this production, although the collie did give them the eye several times. Darth Teddy supplied his own anaconda.

Sunday, January 06, 2008

The Kahuna-Gordon Messages - Part 17: The Wake of the Heavy

ALPHARETTA, Georgia -- Greetings good people of Earth and our esteemed alien readership! We're back with even more buffoonery after a short hiatus on account of the festive season. What better way to kick off a new year than with another edition of the redoubtable Kahuna-Gordon Messages?

Today we bring you a conversation between our two arch-clowns after Thanksgiving:

Kahuna : Have you gained mass during the 
proceedings?
Gordon : Large quantities of turkey (Meleagris
gallopavo
) have been consumed.
Kahuna : The wobble introduced into the Earth's
axial rotation over Atlanta led me to
suspect this.
Gordon : That might have been the Monster mucking
about near the Hoover Dam.
Kahuna : A likely story. I will resort to adding
the term "heavy" after your name in a
manner similar to the call signs of very
large aircraft.
Gordon : I believe heavy refers to the level of
fuel on board.
Kahuna : Er no, it refers to the wake turbulence.
Heh heh :-P
Gordon : X-(
Kahuna : [ROTFL]
Gordon : It'll be "mayday, mayday" for you once I'm
done with you X-(
Kahuna : Less chatter, Gordon 371 Heavy.
Gordon : Missile alert :-l
Kahuna : Indeed, you and gravity would be a deadly
combination X-(

Plans to declare Gordon a wake-vortex hazard and enforce minimum separation for trailing pedestrians is believed to be well underway. Kahuna is also reportedly eying both the Monster and Darth Teddy as similar hazards, given their expanding girths. The Monster was not available for comment. However, Darth Teddy quickly dismissed the allegations against his waistline contending that he was "petite." Kahuna scoffed at the Bear's petiteness, pointing out that Obelix had resorted to similar tactics in the well-known Adventures of Asterix.

In related news, certain budget airlines recently discovered that a fully-loaded Airbus A321 was indeed too heavy to manually push back from the gate when ground services were suspended due to non-payment of dues[1]. While even clowns of average intelligence would certainly appreciate the folly in trying to thallu-start an Airbus using twelve able-bodied personnel instead of the more conventional practice of using a pushback tractor, room temperature IQs seem evident within the relevant decision-making bodies. Oh well, only in paradise.

On that note, we take your leave. Please note that no aircraft were manually pushed back during this production.

[1] "Mihin Aircraft Gets Thallu Start." The Morning Leader. 2 January 2008.