Gmorz: "What are they doing this time, Argaz? I can't for all my tentacles figure out this odd behavior, and I've seen some pretty odd behavior on this planet 267fhx88."

Argaz: "You really don't know? My good green friend, are you ill?"

Gmorz: "Please don't rub your superiority into my stalked eyeballs, Argazzzzzzzzzzz."

Argaz: "Sorry. I got carried away. Please do look again at these creatures. Closely this time, okay?"

Gmorz: "SPEAK UP, YOU PURPLE OOZEBAG. I HAVEN'T GOT ALL DAY. THE GREAT LORD PUSS AND AWE IS WAITING FOR OUR REPORT."

Argaz: "Sssssssh, temper, temper. Right, as anyone can see, all these creatures are males. Do you see now? They want to impress the females, who're all watching there, there, there, and there. (Argaz extends his tentacles five feet and palpitates the flickering screen almost caressingly.) See? The creatures dressed in yellow want to get laid. I don't blame them. Even I got a blurping bleezer out of them when dissecting adult specimens."

Gmorz: "Oh! But, but ... what's 'get laid?'"

Argaz: "It's when one of these male creatures is allowed to put his--"

(And unfortunately right at that moment SETI's funding ran out. Years and years of neglect by Clinton and especially the Bushes slowly bled SETI to death. Now, with the recession warming up, a recession that was not until very recently pronounced a recession even if it clearly was a recession for a long time, the US government pulled the plug. Drat! those pesky politicians again. Now we must wait until Obama donates stimulus packages to SETI - if he does. I guess he will. One has to remember that SETI is badly in need of new solar panels.)