English Politician Claims to have Fathered a Child with an Alien
Will Riker would be proud. I don’t think he ever did have sex with a human on Star Trek: The Next Generation.
image from YouTube
It takes a lot to make American politicians look good.
So if his child visits him in the UK, would it be an “illegal alien”?
And what sort of child support would a court order for this love child?
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Check out this great review from GeekDad: A Unique World Mythology–The Silver Sickle.
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How Becoming a Good Christian Made Me a Bad Person
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This hysterical video via Jay Donovan has me thinking I’m in the wrong profession if I really want to get things done.
All the best to all of you for knowing your own.
Piper Bayard
If I had an alien love child….I certainly would share that with the world. What an accomplished man…politician, Baby-Daddy to an alien love child AND he has a decent looking comb-over.
LOL. I love your positive take on this. 🙂
Great Friday laugh. Thanks, Piper. The Alien Baby-Daddy gave me such an unexpected release of guffaw-endorphins that I think I can skip the next pain pill in my post root canal treatment.
LOL. Having had a root canal before, I don’t recommend that pill-skipping thing, but I’m so glad you got a laugh. 🙂
🙂 I promise to be reasonable!
I wonder what the alien love-child shtick has done for him at the polls. His competition might have to claim to be the ex-mayor of Atlantis.
Or perhaps THE Alien from Area 51. 🙂
I love your mash ups, Piper. Although I do wonder how Jay managed to come across this video…is he in a cut scene? LOL Thanks for including me in this one, too! 🙂
I didn’t want to ask him that. 🙂
Wow, I didn’t know about the marriage loophole where extramarital affairs with aliens didn’t count. Where was that in the vows? I have a feeling that Ashley Madison is about to open up an ET Division. I also predict that the apocalypse may not be zombies vs. humans but alien mistresses vs. pissed-off wives.
Thanks for the shout-out! Great link-up.
LOL! I would actually watch that reality show. Perhaps a Survivor season with an Alien Mistresses Team and a Pissed Off Wives Team.
Brithish are always been thought to be a bit kinky, so an alien child isn’t too far out. I’d;ve thought the child would be Spanish or Italian but to each his own. Thanks for the music, will be looking for them.
My only concern is the welfare of the child, and whether it is getting a proper education. Suppose they will let it into Oxford?
Thanks for the mention, Piper. I really did enjoy FIRELANDS. I went in not really knowing what to expect, but you wowed me.
I loved that video and wonder how many women do that. 😉
LOL. I wondered, too. I once read a supposedly true story written by an anonymous woman in the suburb over who claimed to go to Florida every other weekend to be a dominatrix called Mistress Monique. The rest of the time, she was a cookie-baking, PTA attending soccer mom. … Whatever.
I can totally see that. And I see a lot of story possibilities.
Alien love child? Doubtless the poor fellow is barking mad, but in the true English manner I’m sure his friends think him merely eccentric…I swear their public school system cultivates it. (‘I say, Swinton Minor, the Beak gave me leave to go to the tuck shop, but this dashed attractive alien woman seduced me before I got there.’ ‘Jolly hard luck old boy, that shop’s only open every other Wednesday.’)