a fanfict idea..

Fry is taken to a "20th Century Fair"...basically a sendup of a Ren Faire, and is completely taken aback as to how inaccurate it is.

"Zachary Zulkowski" wrote:

Heheh... and to expand upon your idea...

Fry walks up to a Star Trek booth. The booth attendants are wearing Starfleet uniforms and Fry approaches:

S-T Guy (holds his fingers to make the peace signal): May the force be with you. Welcome to the Star Trekism booth. Do you want a pamphlet?

Fry: What? No! And you don't hold your fingers up like that. It's like this (makes the Vulcan greeting). And you say, "Live long and prosper."

S-T Guy: Yeah. Right. Like anybody would say something like that and mean it. Who'd want to live long in that time period?

Fry: Well, I guess- hey, wait a second. TrekISM? It's not a religion. It was a TV show.

S-T Guy: Hey, mac, you keep saying that and someone's gonna pound you. The Holy Kirk, as everybody well knows, was to Picard what John the Baptist was to Jesus. And Janeway was like the Virgin Mary. Who are you, anyway?

Fry: The name's Fry and I COME from the 20th century.

S-T Guy: Liar.

Fry: Am not.

S-T Guy: Okay, prove it.

Fry: Ask me anything about the 20th century.

S-T Guy (challengingly): Who was Superman?

Fry: That's easy. He was a comic book character.

S-T Guy: WRONG! Everyone knows that he was the great Kryptonian hero sent to Earth to protect and defend us from evil doers everywhere!

Fry: You got it all wrong. There IS no planet Krypton. It was all make believe.

S-T Guy: But there IS a planet Krypton. We found the planet two centuries ago. If Superman's a comic book character, then I'm a cartoon.

Fry (blinks, apparently stumped): Oh.

Guest speaker: Leonard Nimoy's Head.

NightShadow wrote in message news:371a7bd9.143767062@news...

Faire,

Hummm acording to the superman "Bible" (the comics) his planet died long before he got to earth. so could not have found it if it blew up.

Alf Superman Beleiver

Zachary Zulkowski wrote in message ...

Ren Faire,

Your post reminded me of an absolutely brilliant science fiction short story called "Report On the We'Uns." I never red it, but I heard a dramatized radio adaptation of it. In the distant future, archaologists tried to figure out what the 20th Century was like based on scant, fragmented ruins. The conclusions they draw are way, way, off, but it was very plausible that they would come to such conclusions based on the evidence.

The story led me to realize that it's possible that much of what we think we know about various ancient civilizations could be way off.

On Tue, 20 Apr 1999 02:19:24 GMT, "Eric Perlin" wrote: *snip*

Is that the one where there'd been some kind of nuclear devastation that wiped out the records of what *really* happened, so they thought bathrooms were some sort of holy shrines, and that toilet seats were some kind of ceremonial dress? I remember reading something about that... I seem to remember some weird pencil drawings that accompanied it, and how they thought we used various things. They were completely wrong, of course. It was pretty funny, in an uneasy kinda way. But maybe that's just me. :)

So does this mean we can look forward to alt.tv.futurama.creative coming soon to a news server near us? Or do we have to stay tuned for details at 11?

Shadow Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former. -A. Einstein

Wow! I actually remember reading this story. They thought that the dimes they found in the pay toilet were ceremonial objects. The narrator said he was going to put forth the ridiculous idea that the metal things were money, but friends talked him out of doing such a destructive thing.

IIRC, this was an anthology by several authors, including a story called "What If" by Isaac Asimov, a story where people's hemoglobin is changed into chlorophyll, and another where a guy goes into some sort of parallel universe where The vostak distims the doshes.

Evan