THIS IS AN ACTUAL LETTER FROM THE ARCHIVES OF THE SMITHSONIAN…. Or so I’m told.
Paleoanthropology Division
Smithsonian Institute
207 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20078
Dear Sir:
Thank you for your latest submission to the Institute, labeled “211-D,
layer seven, next to the clothesline post. Hominid skull.” We have
given this specimen a careful and detailed examination, and regret to
inform you that we […]

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Once upon a time (1/t), pretty little Polly Nomial was strolling across a field of vectors when she came to the edge of a singularly large matrix.
Now Polly was convergent and her mother had made it an absolute condition that she must never enter such an array without her brackets on. Polly, however, who […]

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No known species of reindeer can fly. But there are 300,000 species of
living organisms yet to be classified, and while most of these are insects
and germs, this does not completely rule out flying reindeer, which only
Santa has seen.
There are 2 billion children (under 18) in the world. But since Santa
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“The light of the Moon shall be as the light of the Sun, and the light of the
Sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days.” — Isiah 30,26

Thus heaven receives from the Moon as much radiation as we do from the Sun, and
in addition seven times seven (49 times) […]

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A true story. A thermodynamics professor had written
a take home exam for his graduate students. It had
one question:

Is hell exothermic or endothermic?
Support your answer with a proof.

Most of the students wrote proofs of […]

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Valles Marineris (MPI) - A spokesthing for Mars Air Force denounced as false rumors that an alien space craft crashed in the desert, outside of Ares Vallis on Friday. Appearing at a press conference today, General Rgrmrmy The Lesser, stated that “the object was, in fact, a harmless high-altitude weather balloon, not an alien […]

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The AMC Spacer
Uncle Boris’s Last Chance Galactic Truck Stop & Fireworks Stand
I-Can’t-Believe-It’s-A-Space-Station
Skylab for Dummies
Emergency Vodka Storage Unit #6
Absolut NightMir
The New, Improved People’s Deathtrap 2000 (”Now with leaks!”)
Space Toast Coast-to-Coast
The S.S. Minnowsky
The Black Cat, Walking Under a Ladder, Broken Mirror, Spilled
Salt, Friday the 13th Space Module
Kaputnik
Cattlecar […]

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“A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo, and when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first. This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole keeps improving […]

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The Top Ten Changes at NASA to accommodate 76 year old John Glenn’s
return to space aboard the Shuttle

All important devices now operated by the “Clapper”.
The Shuttle’s thermostat set at 80 degrees.
Standard Astronaut issue; the “Pendant”…”Help I’m floating and
I can’t get down!”.
“Early Bird” specials from Morrison’s Cafeteria included on the
menu.
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