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title: Creation myth
genre: verse
id: creation-myth
toc: "Creation myth"
project:
title: Autocento of the breakfast table
class: autocento
...
| So two hyperintelligent pandimensional beings
| walk into a bar. One turns to the other and says,
| "Did you remember to check the end state
| of that simulation we were running?" The other
| says, "No, I thought that you did?" To which
| the first replies, "[Oh shit][], we missed it.
| I suppose we must do all of this again. Barkeep,
| two beers please." The bartender nods in that way
| that bartenders do, pours the two beers,
| expertly, by the way, just so, and hands them
| to the first [hyperintelligent pandimensional][] being.
| The second one pulls a few singles out of his
| wallet, places them on the bar, and the pair
| turn around and begin walking toward a table
| in the middle of the mostly-empty bar. The bar-
| tender picks up the money, fans it out, frowns,
| and calls to his patrons' backs: "Hey, this
| isn't enough!" The two turn around simultan-
| eously, with parity, and stare at him. A beat.
| One of them, the one without the beer, breaks
| the silence by exclaiming, "Oh dear god, I'm
| sorry! I didn't know your prices went up since
| last time. What do I owe you?" The bartender
| says, "Oh, just another [dollar][]-fifty." The being
| reaches in his back pocket, slides out his
| wallet, looks in smiling, and frowns when he sees
| it's empty. He looks to the other and says,
| "You got a [buck][]-fifty I can borrow?"
| The second hyperintelligent pandimensional being
| considers this. He sets the beers down
| on the table, pulls out his own wallet, opens
| it, and frowns. "I'm broke too," he says.
[hyperintelligent pandimensional]: http://hitchhikers.wikia.com/wiki/Mice
[Oh shit]: movingsideways.html
[dollar]: one-hundred-lines.html
[buck]: plant.html
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