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Originally Posted by Daniel_
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Originally Posted by kramus
Given that the alien watchers are Hive-Mind creatures, and that humans - though very social animals - are individual entities each within their physical envelopes:
What is the most appropriate guest gift for an alien? They are Hive-Minds, and therefore probably not interested in items which would be of use to the individual (best selling novels, say, or a nice framed landscape). The en-masse gifting of matching slippers and housecoat (as an example) would cripple the combined textile industries of our planet trying to supply the alien hordes in their teeming billions upon trillions of like-minded entities.
I really would appreciate some ideas before next Friday.
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I highly recommend gift accounts to the World of Warcraft. They'd make a kick-ass guild.
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if a deaf person goes to court, is it still called a hearing?
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Yes, unless the entire jury is deaf, in which case it's called a signing.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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