Captain Thad Starquest hadn't counted on the complex and invasive ceremonial greeting of the Emissary of Bluon-Delta 9. Nor had he counted on the amount of time it would take to extract the ambassador's spiny member from his bleeding anus, having completed the Bulon-Delta Ninian ritual coupling of interstellar, trans-species friendship. The Council of Bulon-Delta 9 seemed sated at the conclusion of the 17-hour formal exchange. Starquest, buckling his United Galaxies magnibelt, was just ready to get on with the quadrant's trade negotiations.
"All in the name of galactic peace and brothehood," Starquest thought.
Captain Thad Starquest hadn't counted on gay aliens.
Date Written: August 16, 2005 Author:Kenji X Average Vote: 2.28571
Comments:
08/23/2005Streifenbeuteldachs (3.5):
08/23/2005The Rid: Since they're aliens, maybe they're not gay. Maybe gay is straight to them.
08/23/2005Adolf<B> </B>Hitler (2.5):
08/23/2005qualcomm: oops
08/23/2005Mr. Pony (2.5): As usual, I'm with Hitler. I'm not clear on what joke this short wants to make.
08/23/2005TheBuyer (2):
08/23/2005The Rid (2.5):
08/23/2005Litcube (2): Whoah!
08/23/2005Litcube: I don't think this short can make up its mind. It's as though it tried to have a funny body, but then knew it failed. So then it said, "gay!".
08/23/2005Klause Muppet: Hah! Litcube said 'gay'. Oh josh that's funny!
08/23/2005Klause Muppet: Yes. Oh josh.
08/23/2005Mr. Pony: Ha ha, you're gay too!
08/23/2005Litcube: Ha ha!
08/23/2005TheBuyer: You ALL are gays. ha!
08/23/2005scoop (1): So, it appears the joke here is a little misdirection, larding the front end with ladle after ladle of dense, practically unreadable sci-fi jargon, and then, when we least expect bring the banal/familiar for a bit of sucker punch. There is nothing wrong with that, other than it really has been exhaustively done here.
But there is something wrong with it when it involves something like homosexuality that may, may, have retained some transgressive schwag, like, in the early 80s.
What's more confusing, the top of the short really doesn't contain anything amusing in it -- no jokes, no surprises, just line after line of impenetrable spacey gobbledygook. This is particularly unfortunate given the rich sci-fi vein already mined on this site.
While I appreciate the effort to be different, those strained efforts are wasted when the end result is a rehash of an old joke all dolled up in a stilted alien language.
08/24/2005Dick Vomit: I loved the word Bluon. Then I was saddened to see it typo'd as Bulon, which was a letddown on a attention-to-detail level. Then I saw it spelled Bulon AGAIN and everything just fell apart in my lap.
08/24/2005Kenji X: I could say that was the word I spelled wrong on purpose, but such is not the case.