Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 11:05:51 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Sumerians in Atlanta?
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> MarkLFischer at aol.com 1/13/05 10:50:31 AM >>>
>Barry wrote:
>
>>>Note that the poor  blighter hasn't found work in his, um,
>field.
>
>The President slumped at  his desk in the Oval Office, his
>head in his hands.
> The grim news that  Professor Hottentrot had died was one
>burden more than
>his weary shoulders could  bear.  All hope of diverting the
>rogue asteroid
>hurtling toward Earth was  lost when the Air Force transport
>speeding the
>distinguished scientist to  Washington crashed in the West
>Virginia mountains.  No
>other mind on earth  could comprehend the intricate variables
>involved.  If only
>his briefcase  had been shipped on a separate plane....
>
>Suddenly, the office door burst  open, and the chief of the
>Secret Service
>detail rushed into the  room.
>
>"Mr. President, Sir!  The Search teams have found the
>Professor's notes!
>They survived!  We can build the Zeta Ray Cannon  to
>deflect the asteroid!
>Only...well..."  He handed the fax he had  been clutching to
>his
>Commander-in-Chief.
>
>The President scanned the  report.  "His notes were written in
>Sumerian?  It
>must have been his  way of keeping his work from prying
>eyes...but, where in
>this day and age can we  find someone to decipher it and
>save us all?"
>
>-- The Dreams of  Ancient Languages Majors

Suddenly, crashing through the windows were SumerianMan and
SumerianWoman!  They quickly snatched the papers from the President's
hands and within a moment told the President, "Sorry Sir, these are in
Southern Sumerian..."

mjw