It's been too long...

[nessieq]

listen to the languages of space aliens all over the universe and try to establish if any of them were speaking irish backwards. Why they had not invented such an invention before, of course, was because ______

[Grania]

Only a few crazy people (who shall be nameless) could even concieve the idea However it certainly seemed that...

[Niamh]

indeed somewhere in the universe was this planet where a kind of aliens lived. They didn't look like humans at all, but they were .....

[Angoid]

rather reminiscent of large purple cats. It was decided that they should be called the Naixol race, for reasone best known to those that chose the name. Maybe that was because the noises these creatures made wasn't meowing (as you'd expect from a cat), but ____________

[Anya]

More like a hick up followed by a sneeze. They also.....

[Angoid]

were larger than cats as we know them

The Duchess once said to her brother, "They're cats Jim, but not as we know them".

However, their language was intelligible to those who had installed an automatic translation device into the ears, called a Babel Fish. It turned out that they had been watching Planet Earth for some time, and was waiting for Earthlings to make contact. The 'reverse Irish' lanague becaus they had heard TV transmissions from Ireland, but they had become garbled. Once all this had been established, it was possible to ______________

[A_S]

... send out another message via TV, this time of the duchess introducing herself to the Naixol in standard, forwards Irish and requesting that they____________