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On This Day In History 7.11.1492

7th November 1492. A wheat field on the outskirts of the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.

11.55AM

Two farmers are chatting.

Farmer 1 : Another bad harvest Pierre?

Farmer 2: The worst yet Jacques. I'm thinking off getting out of the farming game.

Farmer 1: The weather ! Sacre Bleu! So wet I thought we were in England.

Farmer 2: We may as well have been. Their bloody army trampling through my fields.

Farmer 1: Bastards.

Farmer 2 : And what about the snail infestation?

Farmer 1: I couldn't eat the things quick enough.

Farmer 2: Then the wildfires in the summer.

Farmer 1: But BBQed snail tastes good.

Farmer 2: Maybe. But those locus that came after simply didn't.

Farmer 1: True. And the river ran red of course.

Farmer 2: That was just Jean getting rid of his old vino.

Farmer 1: It's all been very biblical isn't it.

Farmer 2: All brimstone, thunder and lightening.

Farmer 1: Still! Look on the bright side. You still have some crop left.

Shot of a small square of a massive field still growing with wheat.

Farmer 2: (With a voice full of pride.) Yeap. Although seems a shame to touch it after all that has happened.

Farmer 1 : I'm hungry. Time for a two hour lunch I think. Come on, there is nothing else left that can possibly happen to it is there?

The farmers turn and walk off.

The sky turns red, there is a loud rumble and fire fills the sky and a meteor crashes into the field.

ENDS

The event in history. 1492 - The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the earth around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.

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