Making Light:  Free giant shrimp from the oceans of Mars ::: January 30, 2004, 12:18 AM

  Meanwhile, the Martian Air Force wishes to reassure everyone that
  the thing in Gusev Crater is a harmless weather balloon.

(not to be confused with the plain-text version):

Anne loved the story, so I told her about the "Free giant shrimp from
the oceans of Mars" thread.

"They'll have a hard time delivering," she says.

Ever prone to huffiness, I explain, "Well, the freeness of the giant
shrimp is from, in the sense of causally arising from, the oceans
of Mars...

"That is to say, conclusive evidence of oceans on Mars...

"Or, perhaps, Mars-related ocean activities...."

At which we invoke the twenty-first century version of Godwin's law,
and so to bed.  I must admit, I'm under the influence of Patricia
Marx's "Boswell's Life of Jackson" in this week's New Yorker.  "When
a boy, he was already fond of other children, and, as you know, he
maintained his fondness for them into middle age."  Recommended.