I will gladly scratch a dog behind the ears or let a cat sit on my lap and purr, I enjoy watching the antics of the squirrels who inhabit the nearby park, I'm quite interested in attempts to communicate with dolphins and other cetaceans who may turn out to be more intelligent than most people think, and I'm thoroughly fascinated at the prospect of trying to establish communications with the squid-like creatures who reside on the planet Procyon Six and who have exhibited a highly developed technology, but other than that, I've found that trying to have an intelligent conversation with creatures outside my own phylum, such as the Goofball, is pretty much a waste of time.

Don Firth