Wednesday, October 7, 2009

The Aliens Are Among Us!

The Aliens Are Among Us!

I am renewing my passport online
, and there's a place where you identify, among another things, your height. I pulled the "feet" menu, and noticed that the choices went all the way from 0 to 10. This isn't the same menu used for "inches" (which goes, logically enough, from 0 through 11).

I'm not completely skeptical of the value of passports for those who are 0' 11". (Are there premies that small?) But seriously: how many 10' -- or even 9' -- applicants are they expecting to get? And from what planet? Do we have naturalization procedures for those off-planet sorts? Was Men in Black a documentary, not a comedy? Or did someone set up this website with the expectation that improved nutrition was going to make this necessary sometime soon?

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