PLEASE! No "off-topic" messages, funny or not (NO exceptions)! Send them e-mail to the people you think would enjoy them. If this rule was not enforced, we would look like several of the "genealogy lists" that are filled with poems and recipes! jc List Owner Dan Metivier wrote: > I know all this is way off topic, but I had to through in a > little humor.... > > I found this story on the web. It was originally told by Peterson Zha, > >> at the time the story occurred, he was President of the Navajo Nation. > >> The story is retolded by Charles Phillip Whitedog, Ojibway. He is the > >> Network Manager Multimission Ground Systems Office, Mission Control, > >> Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA. > >> > >> About 1966 or so, a NASA team doing work for the Apollo moon mission > >> took the astronauts near Tuba City where the terrain of the Navajo > >> Reservation looks very much like the Lunar surface. With all the trucks > >> and large vehicles where two large figures that were dressed in full > >> Lunar spacesuits. > >> > >> Near by a Navajo sheepherder and his son were watching the strange > >> creatures walk about, occasionally being tended by personnel. The two > >> Navajo people were noticed and approached by the NASA personnel. Since > >> the man did not know English, his son asked for him what the strange > >> creatures were and the NASA people told them that they were just men > >> getting ready to go to the moon. The man became very excited and asked > >> if he could send a message to the moon with the astronauts. > >> > >> The NASA personnel thought this was a great idea so they rustled up a > >> tape recorder. After the man gave them his message they asked his son > >> to translate. His son would not. > >> > >> Later, they tried a few more people on the reservation to translate and > >> every person they asked would chuckle and then refuse to translate. > Finally > >> with cash in hand someone translated the message. > >> > >> > >> > >> "Watch out for these guys, they come to take your land." > > > >Dan > >Ooyalugi > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~(_______)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > >