CLEARLY IT WAS A FRENCH BIRD
French Bird and the Errant Baguettes WBAGNFARB
(Thanks to diverdowndoc, Becky Diban, Ralph K. and DrJohn)
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*feels much better that knowing that something that could obliterate the planet can be disabled with a baguette*
Posted by: Cheryl Howard | November 06, 2009 at 11:10 AM
Pre-emptive strike?
Or maybe these guy are right.
Think about all the things preventing us from finding this alleged "Higgs Boson": Cancellation of the SSSC, falling cranes, cracked magnets, liquid helium leaks, links to Al Qaeda, and now birds dropping bread on the cooling systems (you will fly down this trench...). Every "accident" more improbable (paging the late Douglas Adams...) than the last.
Posted by: wiredog | November 06, 2009 at 11:15 AM
you know, i think birds cause lots of problems... someone should smite em....
Posted by: queensbee | November 06, 2009 at 11:23 AM
Nice homage to Hitchhiker's Guide, wiredog. :)
Personally, I like the future shutdown theory.
Posted by: Diva | November 06, 2009 at 11:25 AM
French bird?
I didn't see any evidence that the bird surrendered.
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Chris | November 06, 2009 at 11:28 AM
Could this be the legendary endochronic properties of resublimated Thiotimoline, couldn't it? If so, this is *great* news!
Posted by: ScottMGS | November 06, 2009 at 12:03 PM
*tries to blindly climb into the geezer bus emergency exit*
Posted by: ScottMGS | November 06, 2009 at 12:04 PM
The LHC is in France; the French eat baguettes; and they're blaming it on a BIRD?!? Hmmm....
Posted by: Allen at Division | November 06, 2009 at 12:09 PM
They can tell it was baquette, and not crusty bagel? Wow, technology these days.
Posted by: Tash | November 06, 2009 at 12:10 PM
Blocks ScottMGS from geezer bus until he interprets his remark above.
Posted by: nursecindy | November 06, 2009 at 12:16 PM
Thiotimoline, or something like it, is a chemical compound
discoveredfirst described by I. Asimov, that dissolves 0.37 seconds before it is placed in water.Posted by: oneblankspace | November 06, 2009 at 12:24 PM
ice-9?
Posted by: judi | November 06, 2009 at 12:29 PM
It's in Switzerland. Thank God it was not a Toblerone. Time would have ended in a huge chocolate hole. Willie Wonka gone really, really bad.
Posted by: Loudmouth | November 06, 2009 at 01:28 PM
Judi, nice one!
"And another thing, Vonnegut. I'm going to stop payment
on the check.
What's that? Frak me?
Kurt, do you read lips? Frak you!"
Next time
I'll call Robert Ludlum.
Posted by: Allen at Division | November 06, 2009 at 02:01 PM
Thiotimoline
Posted by: wiredog | November 06, 2009 at 02:03 PM
I must either be having a dumb redhead day or you guys are talking way over my head.
Posted by: nursecindy | November 06, 2009 at 02:28 PM
4.4 billion Euros, and what the thing needs is a napkin?
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | November 06, 2009 at 02:29 PM
Discovery of the illusive baguette particle should count for something.
Picard: There's only one way out of this, Mr. Data.
Data: Yes, sir. I'm bathing the anomaly in a baguette particle beam, which should close the time warp and send us back to the 23-1/2 century.
Posted by: Clankazoid | November 06, 2009 at 03:03 PM
It's OK Cindy. We're cluster-geeking. Just back away, slowly.
Posted by: wiredog | November 06, 2009 at 03:22 PM
Butter talons!
Posted by: NotSherly | November 06, 2009 at 05:32 PM
Safe yet?
Posted by: nursecindy | November 06, 2009 at 06:26 PM
But they haven't engaged the Infinite Improbability Drive yet! It may yet turn into a toaster!
Posted by: diverdowndoc | November 06, 2009 at 06:57 PM
Backs away slowly, again.
Posted by: nursecindy | November 06, 2009 at 07:31 PM
It's all part of the Bistromathic Drive sequence. The bird drops breadcrumbs, more wine is poured, some is spilled, they haggle over the check, the cold soup is deducted, and the waiter delivers a bowl of complementary Higgs bosons to the table. You just have to be patient and let it play out as intended.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | November 06, 2009 at 08:10 PM
Yes it's in France. No wait, it's Switzerland. Oh, France again. Dang thing won't hold still.
For my part, I'm investing a penny now for dinner at Milliways. I'm expecting better than a massive baguette possibly moving backwards in time.
Posted by: danceswithhadrons | November 07, 2009 at 01:50 PM
Wait until the collider shows up as a Chesterfield sofa, then pounce on it. In all (im)probability, you'll catch Eddie in the space-time continuum and meet up with the boson.
Posted by: Meanie the Highly Improbable | November 07, 2009 at 03:14 PM
Eddie's in the space-time continuum?
Posted by: diverdowndoc | November 07, 2009 at 09:19 PM
the thing is 100 meters below the surface? where did the bird come from? someone keeps loose pigeons underground? maybe like canarys in a mine?
Posted by: Carla | November 09, 2009 at 12:55 PM
"But the difficulties faced by those working on the project have prompted some members of the scientific community to speculate, in all seriousness, that the machine is sabotaging itself - from the future."
Y'know, lots of alphabet soup after your name buys you a bushelful of a completely different kind of crazy.
Posted by: Chuck | November 09, 2009 at 04:34 PM