[TML] Alternate K'kree origin?

[Jerry W Barrington]

On 7/8/08 6:50 AM, "shadow at shadowgard.com" <shadow at shadowgard.com> wrote:

> On 7 Jul 2008 at 22:09, Jerry W Barrington wrote:
> 
>> On 7/7/08 9:57 AM, "shadow at shadowgard.com" <shadow at shadowgard.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> Listening to some Dr. Demento disks, I suddenly got hit with the
>>> beginnings of an alternate origin for the K'kree.
>>> 
>>> What if they were an attempt to genetically enginneeer better cattle
>>> by a minor human race that went horribly wrong?
>>> 
>>> What inspired this crazy thought?
>>> 
>>> I was listening to Dana Lyoons' infamous song "Cows with Guns". :-)
>> 
>> I didn't realize that was on any of his CDs.
> 
> Ooops. It's track snipped from one of the shows. Those are in the
> same directory tree...

It's been a long time since I was anywhere that *had* the show.  :(

>> I dunno.  I've always had a bit of a problem with K'kree.  I mean, what
>> could push a species of herbivores to intelligence?  On Earth at least, they
>> seem among the least intelligent critters.  :)
> 
> Well, They are *supposed* to be a really odd rool of the evolutionary
> dice.

Must be those funky 13 sided dice.  :)
 
>> Maybe the Ancients did it?
> 
> Possible, though awfully stupid even for them.

Well, they do seem to have done a stupendous range of stupid things...