I’ve always said people from Texas were smart. And this proves it. Notice the crashing fireball from space in the sky? Now, instead of investigating it, the good people in the Austin area have obviously seen enough movies to know you don’t investigate it, you don’t wait twenty years to see if the son of Jor-El emerges wearing tights and a cape, you don’t wait until the alien oozes up your street with its raygun disseminating violence and destruction, and you don’t convene at the Piggly Wiggly to ask each other “What in the world is that thing?”
You run.
Massive fireball crashes in small town. You shoehorn the Reeboks on, pull up the shorts, and you run. Finally, a town got it right. Kudos to Texas.
That’s right, aliens. You can have the town…for now. But we’ll be back Red Dawn style. And then you’ll get what’s coming. Oh yeah. Wolverines!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
February 16, 2009 at 5:56 pm
Yours paints a saner (I far as I am concerned) picture of my fellow Austinites than the actual truth of them running that crazy marathon (while the aliens land around them) Personally I think exercise will kill you.
February 16, 2009 at 6:30 pm
eutychus, get out of that town now. arm yourself. or perhaps you’ve already been taken over and I’m speaking to an imposter alien eutychus.
February 16, 2009 at 7:55 pm
I’m living in my own private Alamo..Wait wasn’t that a B-52s song? Arghhhh…I am an alien! Somebady shoot me now! Before I pun again!
February 16, 2009 at 8:17 pm
It’s hard to convene at the Piggly Wiggly when there ain’t none near Austin. 🙂 Austinites will either convene at the Super Walmart or the H.E.B. But I digress…
The video only captures the sane portion of Austin’s populace. This is a city where the majority embraces the slogan “Keep Austin Weird.”
I’ve since moved away. It’s too weird there, especially with all that burnt orange decor everywhere.
Gig ’em.
February 16, 2009 at 9:12 pm
You go, Big Tex. WHOOP! Course, you forgot the 2nd part of that slogan: “…Keep College Station normal.”
But, if this were an alien invasion, wouldn’t those Austin runners be heading toward the landing site to welcome the mother ship?
February 16, 2009 at 10:08 pm
I must admit this does seem to be happening more. Check out these links. Perhaps its just being reported more…
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7744585.stm?lss
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7836656.stm?lss
Spooky!! It’s okay though, Tom Cruise will save us!
February 16, 2009 at 10:10 pm
I’ve always said, “Thank God for Tom Cruise.”
February 16, 2009 at 10:19 pm
I’ve always said people from Texas were smart.
Um…….uh……OK…..
February 16, 2009 at 10:20 pm
What was that vision of our Lady that said something about fire descending from the sky before a really bad mondo-catastrophe?
February 16, 2009 at 10:48 pm
Wow. You know that you’ve done a good job of completely isolating yourself from the media when this is the first you’re hearing about this…and you live in Austin.
Anyway, this just confirms my suspicion that God does not approve of people wasting time running marathons. (That’s what I’m going to tell myself, anyway.)
Mary in CO – In the ‘burbs there are now “Keep Round Rock mildly unusual” bumper stickers. And, yes, you’re exactly right about how my fellow Austinites would react to an alien invasion.
February 16, 2009 at 10:50 pm
Deusdonat said…
“I’ve always said people from Texas were smart.”
Um…….uh……OK…..
Hey! Y’all can’t say nuthin’ ’bout Texas… or Texans! Heck, the fact that we have our own grid is pretty smart, I think! Then there’s the great homeschooling laws and, well, we’re BIG! A few of us even went to college! LOL 😀
Hook ‘Em!
February 16, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Jen,
Perhaps it’s an invasion of giant alien scorpions. And the world needs your scorpion battling abilities.
February 17, 2009 at 7:02 pm
Um, doesn’t Revelation say something about “Scorpions descending from the sky” in the final days? Personally, I think “fireball that heralds a catastrophe” would be better than scorpions heralding armageddon.
🙂