{"id":391,"date":"2012-03-28T14:22:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-28T22:22:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=391"},"modified":"2012-03-28T14:22:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-28T22:22:14","slug":"martian-mayan-joke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=391","title":{"rendered":"Martian-Mayan Joke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Zordak sent this along to me\u2014a \u201cMartian-Mayan\u201d joke. This has little to do with the present-day Mayan people who live in Central America, although the art of the ancient Mayan civilization was probably influenced by some visitor or tutelary spirits who inspired key artists early on. Technically, this isn\u2019t about Martians, either, but that\u2019s become a kind of code word for extra-terrestrial&#8212;or something alien, or (in this case) trans-dimensional. There are of course problems of translation, because many of the elements don\u2019t have precise equivalents on our planet. But allowing for this, let\u2019s see if you can get it:<a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mayanjoke312.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; margin-left: 0px; border-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"mayanjoke312\" border=\"0\" alt=\"mayanjoke312\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/mayanjoke312-thumb.jpg\" width=\"341\" height=\"307\" \/><\/a>     <br \/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; Three guys walk into a bar. Well, four if you count the mascot, Kan. He\u2019s sort of\u2014what would be the equivalent\u2014Akbal\u2019s little brother. So, Imix asks the bartender\u2014that\u2019s Chic-chan, over there, what are these other guys doing at \u201cour\u201d bar?. The other guys just keep&#8230; I guess in Human language one might say, ah, sipping their beers. So then Ik speaks up and says, \u201cHave you ever done the ritual of spilling blood?\u201d And the visitors (from another dimension, yet one more over beyond where the Martian-Mayans hang out) give him the eye, like, \u201cYou talking to me?\u201d Well first thing you know there\u2019s a sort of friendly brawl with everyone at the bar breaking chairs and throwing things\u2014but it\u2019s all Hollywood props so no one really gets hurt\u2014and then Chic-chan, a real character, says something else\u2014 it was really funny, but I forgot the punch line&#8230; I think.&#160; <br \/>&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; I said, \u201cZordak, that is sooo LAME!\u201d \u201cHe goes, \u201cSo much was lost in translation\u2026 you just had to be there, you know?\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zordak sent this along to me\u2014a \u201cMartian-Mayan\u201d joke. This has little to do with the present-day Mayan people who live in Central America, although the art of the ancient Mayan civilization was probably influenced by some visitor or tutelary spirits who inspired key artists early on. Technically, this isn\u2019t about Martians, either, but that\u2019s become [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foolin","category-zordaks-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}