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To: aladin who wrote (102784)	6/25/2003 1:14:28 PM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 281500

'How to serve humans'. "Unfortunately it was a cookbook." One of the original Twilight zone episodes. I saw it as a kid and still remember it. As the earthlings are getting on the spaceship for a supposed visit to the aliens world, one of the scientists comes running to the ship yelling its a cookbook regarding the just translated book. mike

To: aladin who wrote (102784)	6/25/2003 2:56:16 PM
From: marcos	Respond to of 281500

These sound like aliens who would go well with salsa mexicana, or for those whose taste runs that way, some fava beans, and a nice chianti ... they wouldn't last long around our village, unless you can ride em ...... see, most all ingredients in a cookbook can be substituted with something else, according to whim or availability .... my wife puts cilantro in perogies [on arriving here and discovering frozen perogies she liked them and declared them comida mexicana, effective that day], so hers have green in them so they can't be used at ukrainian weddings, but they are excellent food still, quite tastey, they do the job just fine Now substitute for 'cookbook' in that, 'historical text' .... just as we are what we eat, we are also products of history, we live and breathe history, we must have some fundamental need for it because we make more every single day ... it is guaranteed that as long as the sun rises over this species, there will be 1. perogies made, and 2. more history ..... only thing we can alter, is the ingredients, cooking styles, sauce combinations, stuff like that, but it's really quite a lot when all options are considered A kitchen/state that puts out a tastey/just product will be favoured by our species over one that doesn't, this is an obvious factor sure but it needs to be marked on the wall for some chefs/jefes .... the idea that barbed wire can be substituted for cilantro in perogies simply will not sell to those who prefer the cilantro, nor will the taunt that they were eaterless customers for a eatery without customers, nor any similar nonsense ... of course the customer in turn cannot demand what is unreasonable any more than the analogy thinker upper can do well in haste, but then he'll be reading the menu not this cookbook, and what are printers' assistants for anyway but patching little gaps in simile and metaphor .... chow