CARLOS: Greetings! We are visitors from the planet Mexico, many light-years away. We have come in peace to establish friendly, mutually-beneficent relations.
DEB: What? WHAT is the name of your planet?
ANDY: Is this some kind of immigration metaphor

CARLOS: Our planet’s name is Mexico. It means “fragrant flowering fruit” in our native tongue. Prior cultures have called it by other names. Guatemala. Honduras. El Salvador. Nicaragua.
ANDY: Okay, skip the cutesy alien schtick. What’s the message? Is it about the border fence?

CARLOS: We do not know of any border fence. What a strange and inhumane concept!
ANDY: Aha!
CARLOS: Our nations are kept distinct by means of impassable canyons, policed by savage animals who devour trespassers.
ANDY: WAIT

CARLOS: On Mexico, creatures are segregated by horn quality into inviolable casts that annually rotate civic duties, Right now twosies are the lawyers, threesies the bakers, and ninesies like us are the astronauts.
WENDY: We do this because the Mexican race is biologically most suited to be accountants and cobblers. But we can’t all be accountants and cobblers all of the time.
ANDU: I cannot figure out this metaphor

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#720; Enter the Mexicans transcribed by in

CARLOS: Our planet's name is Mexico. It means "fragrant flowering fruit" in our native tongue. Prior cultures have called it by other names. Guatemala. Honduras. El Salvador. Nicaragua.
ANDY: Okay, skip the cutesy alien schtick. What's the message? Is it about the border fence?

CARLOS: On Mexico, creatures are segregated by horn quality into inviolable casts that annually rotate civic duties, Right now twosies are the lawyers, threesies the bakers, and ninesies like us are the astronauts.
WENDY: We do this because the Mexican race is biologically most suited to be accountants and cobblers. But we can't all be accountants and cobblers all of the time.
ANDU: I cannot figure out this metaphor

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We are SO TIRED of the STEREOTYPE that ALL MEXICANS are accountants and cobblers!

#720; Enter the Mexicans

— April 19th, 2011

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May 8, 2026 by David Malki !

Last year, I participated in Genius Northwest, a gaming competition inspired by the Korean gameshow The Genius and its ilk.

It’s a reality show without the cameras — a 3-day, all-inclusive weekend retreat structured around a series of challenges and puzzles, in which personalities and dealmaking matter as much as playing games.

It’s truly a remarkable thing. I came in dead last in the competition, but I still had a great time participating.

The event is held annually in the Pacific Northwest (hence the name) and applications are now open to participate in the 2026 competition!

Learn more — and apply — at GeniusNW.com.

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#720; Enter the Mexicans

— April 19th, 2011

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