Sorry I was gone for so long.
You see, I went to Jupiter's moon Europa to do a little ice fishing and zailex was driving and he got this wild hair in his bonnet that he wanted to stop on the way and check out the new Mars lander. We must have fiddled around for the better part of 2 earth days, just out of sight of it, with him coming up with tricks to play on the earthlings like putting an old rusty BBQ near the lander. Being the kind of being that I am, I had to talk him out of it. In the end, I succeeded in keeping any of zailex's "tricks" from being planted but as luck would have it, just when we were about to leave, zauch showed up.
As usual, he suspected that I was going ice fishing and he's the sort of jerk that wants to follow a fisherman to his secret ice hole where the lunkers live. I guess it takes all kinds but I wish that ole' zauch would just find his own place to fish. Preferably somewhere on the other side of Europa.
Anyway, with zailex driving again and his uncanny ability to dodge them, several fast trips thru the asteroid belt lost him and we proceeded to Europa and my favorite place.
Fishing wasn't too good so I ended up with only about 1200 pounds to bring back.
I notice that several people don't like this thread and I must admit, some of you folks are getting pretty close to the truth so, before you figure out which star I came from, I'm going to close it.
Let's get back to talking about muzzleloading. There are plenty of other web sites devoted to talking about extraterrestrials. Just don't mention my name on them. The last thing I need is a few guys from my planet tracking me down and forcing me to pay the parking fines I got the last time I was home.