In sci.lang.japan, necoandjeff <spam@schrepfer.com> wrote:
> When my wife and I went to see the Gladiator, and the neatly lined
> up rows of Roman soldiers were staring aross the field at the
> unkempt, unorganized, almost subhuman looking barbarians, standing
> there eating meat right off the bones of some animal in the opening
> scene, I pointed at them and whispered to my wife, "those are my
> ancestors..."

    "Face it," said Ford, "those zeebs over there are your ancestors,
    not these poor creatures here."

    He went over to where the apemen creatures were rummaging
    listlessly with the stone letters. He shook his head.

    "Put the Scrabble away, Arthur," he said, "it won't save the human
    race, because this lot aren't going to be the human race. The
    human race is currently sitting round a rock on the other side of
    this hill making documentaries about themselves." 

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