"Disaster tourism from the future" :) IOW, not 'tour of duty' but time warp tourism ...
They "came back" to see what? maybe Chile and Haiti, but the transporter malfunction put them in Paris a few weeks later - or else ... oops http://www.amazon.com/Grand-Tour-Disaster-Jeff-Daniels/dp/B00006LPC9 They arrived too soon for the big "fireworks" which will happen "real soon now". BTW - There are reports filtering out of Pakistan that OBL's hideout was found last week - but that he narrowly escaped... possibly with a "prize" that could be a "suitcase nuke" bought from the collapsing USSR in the eighties. Why do you think Holder made the recent off-the-wall comment? If this pressure from the USA has now evolved into a "use it or lose it" thing for the Al Qaeda, then the most accessible Western target could be Paris ... and they will probably blame us. SiGned, with a big <g> Harry Tuttle Tour Director "Recall" The Finest in Vulgar Voyeurism -----Original Message----- From: OrionWorks Robin sez: > ...I would have guessed "transporter function", with the true inhabitants replaced by clones/dummies at the critical instant. The real occupants must have been important to ET, or maybe they were ET's that had occupied important positions here on Earth, but their tour of duty was up, and they were due to go home, so a convenient accident was staged to explain why they didn't turn up for work the next day.