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Better than being a cookbook.

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I dunno man. Have you read it? It’s pretty good. 😉

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Of course the human’s pissed off… with a single eye the alien evidently lacks depth perception, and will miss the ball most of the time. It’ll be a very boring game.

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As a man with a very lazy eye who also lacks depth perception… y’know, that’s probably part of why I was never that good at this kind of sport.

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Yeh but they might have other means of locating space, direction, and speed. Echolocation maybe? Something photon, but not eye, related? An ability to watch from the fifth dimension?

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Seems more like it’s playing on that.

The guy is excited to be served, as we would assume it’s a Simpson reference and the alien is going to cook for them, instead they got served in sport, a meta subversion of our expectation of the joke.

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Isn’t it just a reference to the twilight zone ?

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Indeed it is.

Also TIL that it’s originally a short story from 1950 that was later adapted for the Twilight Zone episode.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Serve_Man

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Looking for love in all the wrong places

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