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2017-03-09 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Indicators show potatoes can grow on Mars

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Posted by Fred 2017-03-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Gee, just like the movie!

Posted by Skidmark 2017-03-09 01:06|| 2017-03-09 01:06|| Front Page Top

#2 Martian fries?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-03-09 06:30|| 2017-03-09 06:30|| Front Page Top

#3 Marvin Fries.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2017-03-09 07:27|| 2017-03-09 07:27|| Front Page Top

#4 I concede.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-03-09 07:30|| 2017-03-09 07:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Finally...somewhere to send the Irish-Islamist terrorists.

Posted by Vast Right Wing Conspiracy 2017-03-09 08:11|| 2017-03-09 08:11|| Front Page Top

#6 ..and radical vegans. We'll name the ship, Botany Bay II.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-03-09 09:53|| 2017-03-09 09:53|| Front Page Top

#7 And you can make alcohol out of 'em! Win/win!

Posted by DarthVader 2017-03-09 13:04|| 2017-03-09 13:04|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm going to copyright 'Red Sands Vodka'.

Posted by Pappy 2017-03-09 13:38|| 2017-03-09 13:38|| Front Page Top

#9 Potato schnapps. You're (supposed) to make vodka from wheat.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2017-03-09 13:44|| 2017-03-09 13:44|| Front Page Top

#10 Know what they raise on Mars?
Listen now....
They raise potatoes, tomatoes,
tomatoes and potatoes,
potatoes......
potatoes the size of the Hollywood Bowl
How do they peel them?
They peel them with a bulldozer,
OH! Just imagine a nice big bowl of potato salad...
/channeling Slim Gaillard, singing his version
of How High the Moon?

Posted by Alaska Paul 2017-03-09 19:34|| 2017-03-09 19:34|| Front Page Top

#11 I'm imagining a planet populated with Russians and Irishmen. Does low gravity makes a hangover more bearable?

Posted by SteveS 2017-03-09 19:52|| 2017-03-09 19:52|| Front Page Top

#12 Russians and Irishmen

And sturdy brown ladies in bowlers. With Bolivian Martian dust.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2017-03-09 20:28|| 2017-03-09 20:28|| Front Page Top

#13 Or derbies. I always mix those up.

Posted by Zenobia Floger6220 2017-03-09 20:32|| 2017-03-09 20:32|| Front Page Top

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