Lions & Pho: A Liar's Paper

A sports-fan and card-collecting writer is emailed by an inquirer claiming to be Martian with curious-review eye for (all) Earthling-things of midways wiring.

A sports (NFL) trading-card vignette about Martian-eye and featuring a 'worldly' reference to the logic-language riddle known as the Liar-paradox, to close-out my Tuesday-day of January writing (thanks for reading!), 

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MARTIAN: Know why I'm emailing you, spying on your planet/world from Mars?

MR. AMLAN SATAN: I'm just a Slovak-Algerian Catholic-American sports-fan!

MARTIAN: Doubt I'm emailing you from my secret underground Martian lair?

MR. AMLAN SATAN: So, let's say I believe you're a Martian...what do you want?

MARTIAN: I've been spying on your world, Mr. Satan...your NFL-card blogs.

MR. AMLAN SATAN: My Detroit-city Thanksgiving-football TV-culture card writes?

MARTIAN: That's it, Mr. Satan.

MR. AMLAN SATAN: What do you want me to answer here/now?

MARTIAN: Doesn't matter if you don't think I'm Martian; just probing Earth-IQ.

MR. AMLAN SATAN: I'm to feel like Blue-Planet diplomat for an NFL-helmet?

MARTIAN: Up to the game (Facebook-like)...a secret review, Earth-man?

MR. AMLAN SATAN: What have I got to lose (Facebook-like)?

Amlan wondered why he got a strange/random/anonymous email from a person claiming s/he was spying on him and his Earth-culture ways/activity from the Red-Planet. He did appreciate/understand the emailer was fascinated (apparently!) by his special cyber-writes of things of Thanksgiving-NFL TV-culture reflective special American football trading-card magic, his 'fantastic' Detroit-city Lion-athlete RB-star of great holiday-season TV-know (for doubt!).

MARTIAN: Familiar with the Liar-paradox ("Every statement is incomplete")?

MR. SATAN: "Every statement is incomplete" (except that one)?

MARTIAN: Can't be true and false, yes...so, "At least one statement is complete."

MR. SATAN: So, you mark my Detroit-NFL trading-card writing as diplomacy.

MARTIAN: Sure, but I want your views here/now, fool.

MR. SATAN: Well, "At least one statement is complete" (IQ), and I'm to find it?

MARTIAN: What's your reaction (for doubt)?

MR. SATAN: At least one statement...maybe is..."NFL-cards are superstition."

MARTIAN: Why's that, Earth-man (Facebook-like)?

MR. SATAN: Maybe you probe me, since I feel...football is know-'art' (eh?).

MARTIAN: That's a geo-answer...for mind-age...fair for 'fare'...farewell (thanx).

MR. SATAN: Selfie-like!

So, Amlan Satan sat down to a Saturday-brunch bowl of zesty/worldly Pho (noodles-soup) and thought/wondered about the double-chance his secret/mysterious/anonymous emailing inquirer (of things of Detroit-NFL trading-cards magic and helmets) was either friend...or nihilist-foe (hmmm). Mr. Satan (Amlan!) wondered about the rich-cleats of things of Blue-Planet experience (for history/records/music!) and felt his inquirer (be s/he Martian or not!) was (simply) curious about social/cultural things for (all)...games-smoke (ok).

THE END

"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about" (Ralph Waldo Emerson). 

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