Well, Rob ok!
Now, you are absolutely right about that. Curiously you've now picked
my absolute favorite children's book of all time (Is it coincidence or
did you know), which two kind and generous list members actually had me
shaking in my shoes by giving me the entire mushroom planet series of
books. The kicker is ... the author of Mushroom Planet despised
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and created quite a scandal and
old-style flame war fighting it out with Charlie's authors...because
the premises of Charlie and ..." was a terrible direction to corrupt
young minds with given the existing body of literature available to
children. The same concerns are why the Oompa Loompas lost their green
hair after the book was written. Charlie is one of my top ten as well
so I guess I'm corrupted, but there was no foul smelling sulfur on
Vesta like Basidium, Vesta is a sweet as a burst of chocolate so we'll
have to hang the jury?
As for the green Mushroom people, I still think I'm one of them - and I
have claimed being from Vesta before (Why not, Sterling is from Venus).
The whole thing can be reconciled if we are talking about the same
crowd which staged a journey from Vesta on Basidium-X, a Vestoid, and
hitched up to a gaggle of Wild geese to Earth after Mrs. Pennyfeather
died and they were out of Sulfur (which is not naturally ocurring on
Basidium-X) in the 1950s, and then established themselves in
Oompa-Loompish until Mr. Wonka picked them up in the 1970s. I'll drink
to that ;-)
Best wishes
Doug
ref: stolen ideas from Mushroom Planet, Chocolate Factory, Little
Prince, and another book or two as the arrival at Vesta seems as
unbelievable as it has been long-awaited
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Wesel <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]; MexicoDoug <[email protected]>
Sent: Sun, Jul 17, 2011 6:14 pm
Subject: OT Vesta
I'll give ya the crater (I didn't know that until now - Ries/Nördlingen
being the filming site) but Vesta is more the territory of Mr. Bass and
the little green people of the Mushroom Planet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wonderful_Flight_to_the_Mushroom_Planet
Rob Wesel
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From: "MexicoDoug" <[email protected]>
Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 2:28 PM
To: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] DAWN drives up to Vesta
Hey Rob
No way I'm wrong about the Oompa-Loompas living secretly at Ries
Crater! > They absolutely do according to the original movie :"Charlie
and the > Chocolate Factory".
My apologies for stealing ideas from Charlie and the Chocolate
Factory and > forgetting how to spell Oompa-Loompa! Oopsa Loopsa ...
I should have tread more carefully over your favorite !
To prove the point, let me generally pick up your citation where you
stopped, of the sacred text:
"I myself use billions of cacao beans every week in this factory. So
I > talked to the leader of the tribe in Oompa-Loompish and told him
how his > people could have all the cacao beans they wanted if they
would only come > with me and live in my factory. Well the leader was
so happy he leaped up > in the air and threw his bowl of mashed green
caterpillars right out his > bong-bong tree window. So, here they
are!"
Rob, the next question is - where is "here"? It certainly sounds
like > England or Wales, but ... when Charlie finally gets to look over
the > factory in the great glass Wonkavator elevator that goes up, down
sideways > and anywhere else you want, the movie shows him leaving the
factory > hovering over the beautful village.
What village?
Nördlingen, the very same location of Ries Crater, of course!
Not only that, the Oompa-Loompas are diogenite crazed - they have
green > hair and were grown on a diet of green caterpillars in their
original > homeland where they developed the slingshot technology for
green sample > return missions and the great glass elevator itself,
both of which were > originally defenses against the snozzwangers you
mentioned!
This defense rests ;-)
Best wishes
Doug
PS the reason I didn't mark this OT, is because next time you get to
visit > Ries Crater you can see how the beauty of the town of
Nördlingen (Bavaria, > Germany) had it selected as the town of the
chocolate factory and thus > launch pad for the next adventure when the
elevator was used as a space > ship and docked on the space station
(the book was written long before the > ISS) where some terrible
astronaut-eating aliens were that would eat > everyone on Earth, except
they can't come down to the planet without > spontaneously turning into
meteorites (or that's how I remember it - maybe > it was just "shooting
stars") ...
-----Original Message-----
From: Rob Wesel <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]; MexicoDoug
<[email protected]>
Sent: Sun, Jul 17, 2011 3:50 pm
Subject: Re: [meteorite-list] DAWN drives up to Vesta
Dude It's Oompa-Loompa and they live in Loompaland, not Vesta ‘Then
you’ll > know all about it,’ said Mr Wonka. ‘And oh, what a terrible
country it is! > Nothing but thick jungles infested by the most
dangerous beasts in the > world — hornswogglers and snozzwangers and
those terrible wicked > whangdoodles. A whangdoodle would eat ten
Oompa-Loompas for breakfast and > come galloping back for a second
helping. When I went out there, I found > the little Oompa-Loompas
living in tree houses. They had to live in tree > houses to escape from
the whangdoodles and the hornswogglers and the > snozzwangers. And they
were living on green caterpillars, and the > caterpillars tasted
revolting, and the Oompa-Loompas spent every moment of > their days
climbing through the treetops looking for other things to mash > up
with the caterpillars to make them taste better — red beetles, for >
instance, and eucalyptus leaves, and the bark of the bong-bong tree,
all > of them beastly, but not quite so beastly as the caterpillars.
Poor little > Oompa-Loompas! The one food that they longed for more
than any other was > the cacao bean. But they couldn’t get it. An
Oompa-Loompa was lucky if he > found three or four cacao beans a year.
But oh, how they craved them. They > used to dream about cacao beans
all night and talk about them all day. You > had only to mention the
word “cacao” to an Oompa-Loompa and he would start > dribbling at the
mouth. .' > http://static-l3.blogcritics.org/10/12/22/150635/oopma.jpg
Rob > Wesel ------------------ > Nakhla Dog Meteorites
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-------------------------------------------------- > From: "MexicoDoug"
<[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, July 17, 2011 10:36 > AM To:
<[email protected]>; <[email protected]> > Subject:
Re: [meteorite-list] DAWN drives up to Vesta
Hi Matthias! Do you think your Tatahouine was mined on Vesta by the
Oumpa >> Lumpas! Unfortunately all the kings horses and all the kings
men couldn't >> put Tatahouine together again, so we'll never know with
100.000...000% >
certainty if 99% of them all ever had any fusion crust.... :-( :-)
Won't you be surprised when you find that Vesta actually was mined
by
sly > Oumpas living under Ries Crater that have a giant slingshot,
perfect > sense > of masses, orbits and atmospheres of everything and
have been > mining Vesta > to songs that have been heard for thousands
of years ... by > hurling > projectiles on precisely calculated
billiard-like trajectories > at that > return samples to Earth. Of
course, each time a space-faring > gaggle of > geese pass by the
returning stones, Vesta stones being so > attractive to > their eyes,
they pick them right out of the path and bring > them to earth > during
June and November migrations, and set them down > somewhere in Africa >
where they pick at them like chicken feed and love > the icing, until
they > shatter into zillions of pieces. - And you > thought you had
Tatahouine > figured out now that you have that beautiful > new stone
;-) But maybe you > are on to something about why it is so > difficult
to know Vesta's "perfect" > mass!
Happy Day! Doug
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