Quoth Andy Friedman <noise@nando.net>:

There is a point in the Torah (Jewish holy book, if you didn't know) in which God tells Joshua to attack Jericho, even though they have no idea who's in there or how powerful they are. Joshua (I believe) says to God something along the lines of: "But Lord, we know nothing about these people. They might be giants!"

God then banishes them to the desert for 40 years for doubting him.

The "verse" (tabloid footprints part) is what I see to be one of Joshua's people saying: "They'd better be giants or we're going to look reeeeeally stupid." I suppose the tabloids part represents some proof (possibly a primitive "weekly world news" or other tabloid) which might have led them to think this.

The actualy "They Might Be Giants!" line is quoted from a children's Torah Stories book, so I don't think those exact words are in the Torah.

Tell me if I'm looking way to far into this.

And if you can find what the heck the voices are, tell.

Quoth Aimee Pflieger <apfliege@indiana.edu>:

i don't get as much about religion as i do the whole idea of tabloids and the don quixote thing, where we *need* them to be giants, because we *need* excitement and imagination in our lives, and just like don quixote believed the windmills he was fighting was giants, we can make anything into something else with a little imagination....i don't think don quixote was even close to being insane, he just wanted to prove a point so much that it became part of him....

Quoth Jonathan Dore <JonathDo@Websters.co.uk>:

I'm sure someone else has picked this up, but the obvious reference of the title (and the name!) is to the movie "They Might Be Giants" (1972), starring George C. Scott and Joanne Woodward, about a lawyer who fantasizes about being Sherlock Holmes.