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As are the upright-walking Martian porccupines. We first heard about them in 2008 when NASA released an image taken from one of their rovers in which a large upright-walking Martian porccupine shape appeared. The photo was dismissed as a shadow formed by surrounding rock. Last year, we knew we had fooled ourselves into being fooled.
The upright-walking Martian porccupines arrived in droves. They seemed peaceful enough at first, but that soon changed when another Bush in hiding video was released. In it, Bush calls for Jihad on all upright-walking Martian porccupines while Bin Laden wiggles his tongue and screams like Xena, Warrior Princess. Many a quill was ruffled.
They shot first but many people, like myself, believe it was accidental. The upright-walking Martian porccupine in question was a high-strung upright-walking Martian porccupine. He was shaking, standing there on the front line. He twiched the wrong muscle and a single quill took flight. It was the upright-walking Martian porccupine quill in flight which barely makes a noise at all shot heard around the world. It took out Dick Cheney's pheasant hunting friend, and the war was on.
The memories are too...too fresh for me to write a more detailed account of the upright-walking Martian porccupine/American war, but know that much blood was shed, many quills were flung, and bottled india ink sales went through the roof.
We learned a lot from them. Those upright-walking Martian porccupines were upright upright-walking Martian porccupines. My hat is off to them, and the planet thanks them. Their flung quills made excellent pens, plastic pen manufacturing-and by default petroleum refining-was cut drastically, gas prices finally fucking dropped, and the war against the Axis of Oil came to an end.

And the peasants rejoiced.

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