spoon-discuss: Re: spoon-business: Nomilogue #4

[Wonko <dplepage@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quoth Glotmorf,

> {{ _These are the Voyages of the DimShip Benomicant_
> 
> [[
> 
> "So...think they'll launch at the end of the week?"
> 
> "They think so.  They're sure gonna try."
> 
> "This'll be a first flight, right?  Shakedown cruise?"
> 
> "Yeah.  That's why the backer's taking the chief engineer along."
> 
> "Poor bastard.  Glad they didn't need me."
> 
> "Why?  The prototype came back okay."
> 
> "Yeah, but what about the other prototype?"
> 
> "What other prototype?"
> 
> "Exactly."
> 
> "...Oh."
> 
> "No one's saying what happened to the first one, except it's why they were
> using pigs in the second one."
> 
> "Thought they used monkeys for that sort of thing."
> 
> "Didn't you see 'Alien'?  Pig guts are real close to human guts.  They wanted
> to see if the trip would scramble people's insides."
> 
> "Charming."
> 
> "But disrespectful.  I hear they think one of the pigs is stranded in the Snob
> Realm."
> 
> "Have you thought about how weird all this extradimensional stuff is?"
> 
> "I try not to.  Seen the ship?"
> 
> "Yeah.  It's really...it's kinda...I thought it was...it's..."
> 
> "Bland?"
> 
> "Yeah.  I don't get it.  It's supposed to travel through dimensions, right?
> But it looks so...boring."
> 
> "Think that has to do with the dimensions...all these subjective terms for
> them.  Maybe the ship has to be boring so that it doesn't bias itself in any
> one direction."
> 
> "That make sense to you?"
> 
> "Nope.  Guess that's why I don't have an advanced degree."
> 
> "But boring or not, people are gonna climb inside and ride it somewhere, I
> guess.  They issued a policy update today."
> 
> "Musta missed that.  What's it say?"
> 
> ]]
> 
> Append to the last paragraph of rule 493 the following:
> 
> "A DimShip, once built, can be launched at the end of the nweek."
> 
> [[
> 
> "Huh.  And it's built, isn't it?  The...Benomicant?"
> 
> "Yep.  That's why they had the barbecue party.  By the way..."
> 
> "Yeah?"
> 
> "Whatever happened to that last test pig?"
> 
> "Well, I can see why *you* don't have an advanced degree..."
> 
> ]]
> 
> }}
> 
> 
That's a pretty big proposal for two lines of text :)

--Wonko

"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
- Paul Erdos