Best link in months, courtesy of windrose

[lagilman]

"A Brief, Brief History of Time."


sample:

Galileo: *invents proper telescopes* *discovers Moons orbiting Jupiter* OMG WTF! There’s stuff orbiting things which aren’t the Sun and aren’t Earth. Blimey.

The Universe: *slow hand clap* Getting warmer, boys.

The Church: STFU Galileo! Do you really want to be the principle ingredient in a philosopher kebab?

Galileo: *grumbles* But!

The Church: Shh! We are right about everything, mmmkay? Invent cat flaps or tippex or something useful or shut it, right?

Galileo: But nevertheless, it moves…

The Universe: *sigh* Nice try Galileo. Good effort.



Oh dear. Actually did scare the cats, I was laughing so hard...

Comments

[windrose.livejournal.com]

Hee! Is that not the funniest thing ever?

[lagilman]

I love it much. It needs a staged reading.

[windrose.livejournal.com]

It really, really does.

[jennifer-dunne.livejournal.com]

I lost it over:
Nerds: *invent increasingly better science until they get to quantum mechanics and general relativity, which are both lovely on their own terms, but do not play well with others*

I'm picturing this as a staged production, with people holding up those doofy signs with words on them (like "still really really complicated"). And up pop two people with "Quantum Mechanics" and "General Relativity" stenciled on their t-shirts, whose cards read "Quite Lovely" -- they flip them over to display "But doesn't play well with others".

I have no idea why this hit my funny bone so hard, but ouch!

[lagilman]

Whee! There are two more installments!