by me, Kerry Burgess, 01/12/2026 09:04 AM excerpt
The most recent new episode of The Simpsons was their interpretation, it seems, of "Severance", that streaming-video series on AppleTV subscription service
I have been aware of "Severance" for a long time.
After that recent The Simpsons episode, I have found myself thinking a few times: I should have thought of this earlier, much earlier.
Today, thinking about it again, I reviewed for the first time the premiere date of Severance
From 10/24/1964 ( ) To 2/2/2020 ( ) is 20189 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 2/10/2021 ( ) is 20189 days
From 3/19/1953 ( ) To 2/10/2021 ( ) is 24800 days
24800 = 12400 + 12400
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/15/1999 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Stargate SG-1"::"Past and Present" ) is 12400 days
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The Outer Limits
S2.E6
Cry of Silence
Episode aired Oct 24, 1964
A married couple find themselves lost in the middle of a deserted valley and come under attacks by tumbleweeds
The Outer Limits (1963) s02e06
"Cry of Silence"
(from internet transcript)
Looking back, it seems it all happened the night that thing landed in the canyon .
- Two weeks ago as near as l can figure.
- What was it? l don 't know.
Meteor maybe.
l saw a blinding light come down , like a thunderbolt, then a crash.
- Didn 't you go out to investigate? - l walked down the canyon the next day.
-Nothing there, not even a hole in the ground.
- Was that when things started happening? Well, that's that's what l think now.
l didn 't pay any attention to it at first.
lt seems there's more tumbleweeds around than usual, but that's all.
Then they started getting bigger, about the time my wife started missing chickens.
- You don 't mean that they? - Maybe.
lt didn 't occur to me at the time.
Figured it was a fox, but a fox couldn 't have made off with a sow.
Didn 't you talk it over with your neighbours? No other farms in ten miles of here.
Anyway, they wouldn 't believe me.
l didn 't believe it myself till the milk cows disappeared.
- Oh, now, come on ! - Mr Lamont, where is Martha now? She wanted to leave.
Kept after me to go.
Then , last week, after the cows disappeared, she went away.
l hope she got out of the canyon .
lt's a miracle you held on to your sanity.
The Outer Limits (1963) s02e06
"Cry of Silence"
(from internet transcript)
These are just symbols.
l can 't read these.
This is not Lamont's writing.
He's transcribing it into its language.
Oh l was hoping he'd translate the thoughts into his own terms.
He would do if he were alive! Come on , write.
Write enough symbols so we can establish a pattern .
There'll always be somebody to decode.
Come on , write! Write! - What did it? - Oh, nothing.
Just some meaningless symbols.
About four lines of them.
Did you notice how mechanically the body moved? Rigor mortis had set in .
The muscles responded, but just barely.
The arm couldn 't write.
- What about the symbols? - There's not enough of them.
There's no way to learn the key.
Just not enough of them.
What do you suppose it is doing now? Well, it's probably making an estimate of the situation .
lt must realise its carrier can communicate with its own species.
But even if you could make contact, it couldn 't understand you .
The language.
Thought has no language.
We think in pictures and sensations.
Then we translate these ideas into our own words and sentences.
Now, suppose this this thing has a concept and it wants to put it into a living brain . . mine.
l get the thought, but then wouldn 't l translate all these ideas, this thought, into my own words, into my own language? lf you let it enter, how do you know it will ever go, and if it does go, leave you mindless, soulless, like like That's a gamble we have to take.
We're prisoners.
lt can do what it wants with us.
Our only chance is to make contact, to reach an understanding.
Stargate SG-1
"Prisoners"
TV-series season 2 episode 3, 07/10/1998
(from internet transcript)
CARTER
(anxious)
We let her out.
album: "The Moon & Antarctica" (2000)
Modest Mouse
"Third Planet"
My boss just quit the job
Says he's going out to find blind spots and he'll do it
The 3rd planet is sure that they're being watched
By an eye in the sky that can't be stopped
When you get to the promised land
You're gonna shake that eye's hand
Reminding you we used to be three and not just two
And that's how the world began
And that's how the world will end
Star Trek: Enterprise
Cogenitor
Summaries
While preparing the sensors to observe a hyper-giant that will be transformed in a supernova, the Enterprise makes first contact with the amicable and highly developed Vissians. The race of explorers is invited to visit the Enterprise and the crews exchange information about each civilization. Trip is intrigued about the third gender of the Vissians, necessary for their reproductive process, and Dr. Phlox explains that there are many races with more than two genders and T'Pol asks him to not interfere with the Vissian culture. When Trip finds that the Cogenitor, who does not have a name, is illiterate and treated like an object, has the same level of intelligence of the males and females of its race, he decides to secretly encourage it to learn how to read and expand its culture, tragically affecting the relationship between humans and Vissians.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/25th_Academy_Awards
Greatest Show On Earth, The (1952) Movie Script
Well, looks like were out in the cold.
Perhaps we should keep
each other warm, huh?
Listen, sugar, the only way
you can keep me warm
is to wrap me up in a marriage licence.
Why not?
That would be something new.
Roll it, Merle!
Plenty of brass and make it loud!
Come to the circus
Come on along and see
Hooray for lions
And the camels
Youll have fun
And look at all the other mammals
Come see the clowns
Who play their part
Theyll wear a smile
that hides a broken heart
Tremendous
Stupendous
The circus show shall be
The Bengal tiger
And the lion
The trapeze artist does a leap
Thats death-defyin
A land of mirth
Your moneys worth
Come on along to the circus
The greatest show on earth
Thats all, ladies and gentlemen.
Thats all.
Come again
to the greatest show on earth.
Bring the children. Bring the old folks.
From 6/21/1985 ( premiere USA film "Cocoon" ) To 1/12/2026 ( ) is 14815 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 5/26/2006 ( ) is 14815 days
From: Kerry Burgess
To: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Fri, May 26, 2006 9:20:16 PM
Subject: Re: Journal May 26, 2006, Supplemental
Kerry Burgess wrote:
Earlier in my notes, I remember a time when I got out of boot camp, the same day I think. Three of us, still wearing our dress whites, rented a car and headed to the beach for the weekend. I was driving but didn't know how to get to Daytona. The next thing I remember, we were at the gated entrance to some facility. The security guard asked if we were "lost." We were at the entrance to Cape Canaveral.
From 12/28/2021 ( ) To 1/12/2026 ( ) is 1476 days
1476 = 738 + 738
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 11/10/1967 ( premiere USA TV series episode "Star Trek"::"Metamorphosis" ) is 738 days
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Posted by Kerry Burgess at 10:23 AM
Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home
I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
Tuesday, December 28, 2021
Wajo
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Posted by Kerry Burgess at 5:18 PM
Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home
I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
Tuesday, December 28, 2021
"The point is not who built them; the point is when they were built." - Doctor Daniel Jackson, 1994
Perry Mason
"The Case of the Meddling Medium"
TV series season 5 episode 6
Dr. Younger: Isn't this unncessarily dangerous?
Perry Mason: You're not worried, are you, Dr. Younger?
Dr. Younger: If I knew enough about electricity really to be worried, I should then have been expert enough to have tampered with the elevator motor that killed Philip Paisley - is that what you mean?
Perry Mason: That's right, Doctor. The murderer was expert in the knowledge of electricity.
Stargate SG-1
"Past and Present"
TV-series season 3 episode 11, 10/15/1999
(from internet transcript)
ORNER
All of our elders are missing as well.
O'NEILL
You remember elders?
ORNER
Well, no, but there are photographs of them in every house.
Stargate SG-1
"Past and Present"
TV-series season 3 episode 11, 10/15/1999
(from internet transcript)
DANIEL
Give me the vials, Ke'ra. You don't need to do this.
KE'RA
There are two people inside of me, and one of them is a monster. In time, she will win.
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 2:16 PM Pacific-timezone USA Monday 06/15/2026
