I was trying to write an article about the Loch Ness Monster when Xrytspet from Fanton in G10009845788899990766 stuck her nose into my business again. Xrytspet: Your writing about something you know nothing about. Hack Writer: I always start out that way, or nearly always. This one started in my dentist office while I was reading National Geographic. Go away! Xrytspet: I'm taking a spin in the FnL7 Time Craft. I thought you would like to come along. Hack: Go away, Xrytspet! Xrytspet; I'm going back 75 million years. I want to take a look at the Western Interior Seaway. Hack: The what? Xrytspet: I'm leaving. If you want to go, you had better lift your butt off that chair. That's when Xrytspet levitated me and the next thing I knew I was in the FnL7 Time Craft speeding back in time. As we flew, Xrytspet talked. Xrytspet: You are incredibly ignorant of the history of your planet, Taylor Jones, the hack writer. It seems I'm always explaining things to you. Hack: You were there. I wasn't. Xrytspet: I'll tell you a secret. That building next to the Police Station is what's called a library. They have books in there and you don't need money to get them. They loan them out. Hack: You're such a smart butt, Xrytspet. Xrytspet: "The Western Interior Seaway is an ancient intracontinental seaway that occupied much of modern western North America and existed throughout much of the Cretaceous Period." Hack: Which statement you quoted word for word from one of those books. Xrytspet: Not exactly. I copied it from http://serc.carleton.edu/resources/1857.html. Hack: I though so. Look! We're there! Good heavens what is that thing? Xrytspet: That is the Thalassmedon, your Loch Ness monster. (See http://www.oceansofkansas.com/longneck.html and http://www.oceansofkansas.com/denver.html.) Hack: That creature has a neck 20 feet long. It's a type of plesiosaur, isn't it? Each of its four flippers is as big as a man. Let this thing hover higher. It's snapping at us. Xrytspet: We're not fish and it's slow because it keeps big stones in its belly. Hack: It's doesn't seem to care. Throw it an apsopelix. An apsopelix is a bony fish, or was. See http://www.keystonegallery.com/fossils/bony_fish.html. Xrytspet: We've got to get out of here! Hack: But we just got here and I want to see everything. Xrytspet: Look on the projectile screen. Hack: HOLY, COW! That's one humongous meteor. Xrytspet: Say bye, bye to the Thalassmedon. |
