
Oh my goodness - what a proud day for India!
AP, CALCUTTA: A spokesman for Diarrhea Reaction Motors Inc., prime contractor to India's State Space Agency announced this morning that Stinkfire 1, the nation's first lunar rocket, launched May 17, 1972, has reached its destination exactly on schedule, and has successfully entered orbit around the Moon.
After post-orbit insertion testing is completed, a man-sized probe is set to break free of the mother ship, and embed itself into the surface of the moon. If successful, the probe is to transmit data back to Calcutta Mission Control, on the possible suitability of the landing site for a proposed Dell Computers Customer Service Call Center, as shown in the Earth based simulation below:

The Stinkfire, burning a highly explosive mixture of curry, garlic and onions, is India's first attempt at placing a rocket in lunar orbit, and in the words of Mission Control Director, Mahatma "Buzz" Ghandi, "this is the auspicious day for India and for all of the Indian peoples of India. When this day, which is the day after yesterday, and the day before tomorrow, the lighting of the gases from the backside of the India rocket are expelled and to light the candles from the backside flame are to every proud India person the culmination of the backsides of the India people and the backsides of all the backsides across all our peoples of the India world. Except... maybe today is not a good day for those jokers, those stinky Goddamned Pakistanis, those people whose backside gases are not the power for the candles of peace, but only the backside gases of the hatred for the India peoples' backsides, and whose backside gases can power no rockets, but can only smell so Godammned awful."
When asked for comment, two young space enthusiasts - camped for the past two years upon the meticulously groomed mud sidewalk directly adjacent Calcutta Mission Control as they breathlessly awaited announcement of the missions success - had apparently been rendered speechless by the sheer significance of the historically significant event, and as a result, had nothing to say.







