"Well, we must have a few planets tagged by now. How about sending me off to explore one of them and find new products to start our Earth licensing system with?" I asked.
"We could do that," Joe said, "I just wonder how you'll recognize some plant or animal as tasting good to a significant portion of the civilized galaxy?"
Dad chuckled. "Too bad we can't send Euell Gibbons."
"What?" I asked, "You want to send primates from Borneo?"
"Not gibbons, Tim. Euell Gibbons is a person. He was famous for foraging wild plants and eating pine trees and stuff back in the 1960's and 70's. I was making a joke."
"Oh. It was probably funny back in the 1970's," I suggested.
