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This is funny considering that Lem wrote thinly-veiled satire of life in the Soviet Union (e.g. "Memoirs Found in a Bathtub")

In my admittedly puerile mind and in my native language it's funny because, seriously, lem means dick.

Which is bizarre because in English Dick also means dick.

What are the odds?

Almost as likely as the suggestion that just this once, swamp gas really is evidence of aliens.