Re: What practical jokes would you pull w/time machine?

JRS: In article <1131939779.409096.136420@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
, dated Sun, 13 Nov 2005 19:42:59, seen in news:rec.arts.sf.science,
Jeffs <jeff_suzuki@xxxxxxxxx> posted :
>Mike Combs wrote:
>> "Wildepad" <noreplies@> wrote in message
>> news:dcbom1pse92ja0r5pmg4lj5h1mnpbn1t6f@xxxxxxxxxx
>> >
>> > 5) Build a flying saucer and put it into orbit around the moon
>
>Build a lunar module out of parts clearly marked "US Navy" and leave
>the base about 100 yards away from where the _Eagle_ will land.
>
>(There's a short short story with this theme...)

Which I would like to rediscover.

IIRC, the USAAF or USAF landed, detected something over the next hill,
and sent a man to peer over. He returned aghast and shaking. "Is it
Little Green Men?", "No, worse than that!"; "Russians!?", "No, worse
even than that!!"; "What can be worse?!?!", "It's the USMC!!!".

(US Marine Corps?)

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