Other than deciding that Teal'c didn't need to be exposed to the life and career of Marcel Marceau, Jack passed it off as a non-issue in the big scheme of things. So the big guy wasn't big on mimes. It wasn't like the Goa'uld were sending mime armies to capture SG teams or anything.
And so it was a non-issue, right up until they ran across the tiny little mime squirrels of P3Y-4379. There they were, happily walking single file down the sandy path through the woods towards the pyramidal structure the UAV had crashed on the top of, when Teal'c, who had been at point, stopped so suddenly that Daniel had nearly plowed into the back of him. He would not let the team proceed, and he called Jack forward to see the threat.
It was a squirrel, or something extremely similar, with ordinary looking coloring, except for the snow white fur on its head, with two little teardrop shapes in black under the fur of the eyes. It was reared up on its hind feet, and was chattering and paddling around with its front paws, for all the world like it was performing an invisible wall mime act. Then it began to walk in place. Badly.
Teal'c's face was a rictus of disgust.
“We must proceed no further on this path, O'Neill,” he said.
After five minutes of trying to convince Teal'c that the squirrel, while disturbingly mime-like, was not harmful, Jack finally decided that it would be easier to detour around as Teal'c desired. They made their way into the woods, cursing as the underbrush caught at their boots, almost as if they were hands reaching out to trip them. Before long Teal'c allowed them to make their way back to the path. Once there, he picked up a baseball sized rock, and lofted it back in the direction that they would have come. There was an explosion, and when the dust cleared, they could all see a crater in the path.
“It was a warning,” said Teal'c.
“Yeah, I can see that,” said Daniel.
Jack was too busy wondering. Which came first, the squirrel or the mime?
I think this is the result of The Whirlwind having made me an extremely unwilling witness to Alvin and the Chipmunks and The Squeakquel, and whatever the third horror in the series is.
btw. have you seen this article about a fossil parrot found in Scandinavia? It's warming to a Monty Python fan's heart.
Land Mimes, Part 2
And so it was a non-issue, right up until they ran across the tiny little mime squirrels of P3Y-4379. There they were, happily walking single file down the sandy path through the woods towards the pyramidal structure the UAV had crashed on the top of, when Teal'c, who had been at point, stopped so suddenly that Daniel had nearly plowed into the back of him. He would not let the team proceed, and he called Jack forward to see the threat.
It was a squirrel, or something extremely similar, with ordinary looking coloring, except for the snow white fur on its head, with two little teardrop shapes in black under the fur of the eyes. It was reared up on its hind feet, and was chattering and paddling around with its front paws, for all the world like it was performing an invisible wall mime act. Then it began to walk in place. Badly.
Teal'c's face was a rictus of disgust.
“We must proceed no further on this path, O'Neill,” he said.
After five minutes of trying to convince Teal'c that the squirrel, while disturbingly mime-like, was not harmful, Jack finally decided that it would be easier to detour around as Teal'c desired. They made their way into the woods, cursing as the underbrush caught at their boots, almost as if they were hands reaching out to trip them. Before long Teal'c allowed them to make their way back to the path. Once there, he picked up a baseball sized rock, and lofted it back in the direction that they would have come. There was an explosion, and when the dust cleared, they could all see a crater in the path.
“It was a warning,” said Teal'c.
“Yeah, I can see that,” said Daniel.
Jack was too busy wondering. Which came first, the squirrel or the mime?
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BOOM!!!!
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I think this is the result of The Whirlwind having made me an extremely unwilling witness to Alvin and the Chipmunks and The Squeakquel, and whatever the third horror in the series is.
btw. have you seen this article about a fossil parrot found in Scandinavia? It's warming to a Monty Python fan's heart.
the ex-parrot
Obviously, we are dealing with a bird that is bereft of life
When they're quoting Python in the articles, you know you have a Truly Awesome Paleontologist!
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Thanks for sharing!
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