in spite of the public statements to the contrary, michael bought the glove and goggles from the estate of uncle albert. he also bought the reflective mask in my photo at the same time. albert never mentioned that one to me tho, so i'm not sure if it was ever used in his laser experiments. michael was a practitioner of bando, and used a khukuri to cut the grass at neverland.
uncle albert (he's my relative uncle*) used a half silvered dui chirra khukuri in his famous repeat of the michaelson-morley measurement. uncle albert once told me he'd invented the laser in the early part of the last century, he had been given the glove and the protective goggles by abraham lincoln's daughter shortly before she died in 1938. because of the war, his discovery of the laser was ultra top secret. it was independently re-invented after the war.
abraham had found the glove and glasses hidden in a cellar wall in the white house where george washington had left them. they survived the burning of the white house by the british in the war of 1812. he had briefly considered issuing the union troops with khukuris but inertia in the war department did not permit. he was a fan of the chitlangi, having used one to build the log cabin he was born in.
george had recieved a 25in. kobra from cornwallis as is traditional during the surrender at yorktown, corney had heard he liked khukuris so he used his own kobra in lieu of a sword. george had received the goggles and glove from his childhood sweetheart lucy davinci as a going-away present when george had gone off to the french and indian wars. george had his favourite chiruwa angkhola along with him on that one and during the revolution, the one he'd used on the cherry tree. it was actually that khukuri that washington threw across the delaware river, not a silver dollar.
leonardo had recieved the goggles and glove from ET on his trip before last. ET of course was the inspiration for many of leonardo's inventions. recent facial studies have indicated the relative facial geometry (as used in facial recognition algorithms now) of mona lisa and leonardo match exactly. old leo had used his own facial measurements to sketch out ol' mona.
leonardo had invented the khukuri based on the greek kopis, and wandering monks from australia who had somehow gotten lost in italy admired them and left some in nepal on their way back to australia, where due to lack of satisfactory steel manufacturing skills, the form degenerated into the almost as useful wooden boomerang. of course, aboriginal tribesmen had been using the non-returning throwing stick for millennia, and thus adapted easily to this new technological breakthrough.
where ET got the glove from and why he left it here is a mystery. some say it was given in payment for the now famous portrait of ET by davinci shown in the montage above which is held in the private collection of a multi-billionaire IT geek in the state of washington.
who will be the next guardian of the glove?
there is some speculation all will revealed in the next harry potter novel.
*- he was nicknamed 'ein stein' because of his inability to drink more than one stein of beer at the hofbrau house.
albert's original ein stein
note the pirate khukuri hidden behind the pirate skull on the hat.