Thursday, March 5, 2009

El Steve


1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I can remember grandmother telling us about when she first came to outer space. It was in the second half of the 21st century, when the medical-insurance industry perfected the pills that made you keep from dying. This gave the medical industry more customers, and the insurance industry never had to pay off on life insurance. Well, of course things started to get pretty crowded down dirt-side, so they started shooting the older folks up to big space stations in low earth orbit. When they fell down in the microgravity, they could just get up by themselves without calling for help with any med-alert necklace thing. The old geezers started forming basketball leagues, where they would do fantastic monster slam dunks all the time, since they could all leap above the rim. Of course some of them started to get really fat, since it didn't really make them gain much weight. But when the industry people cut the food rations way back, then the fat people got skinny pretty quick. Granny is still alive, she comes to visit us on Mars at Christmas, usually.