Absolute Zero

Bitterness And Particle Physics

by Elizabeth Barett Revulsion (Elizabeth Barett Revulsion)
written 14 May 1992

This article is classified "Fictional"


Absolute Zero, 1.
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The exact amount of sympathy you can expect to get for your pathetic
little problems in this cold, hard, Bugblatter Beast eat Bugblatter Beast
universe.  Wake up, Bubbie!  This is the real Galaxy and none of your
mothers work here!  As the great Altairian philosopher Bobo the Plutarch
once said, "Laugh and the Galaxy laughs with you.  Cry, and some really
heinously unhoopy Vogon will rip out your vital internal organs and shove
them up your nose just because he's suffering from a little post-lunch gas
and wants to work off his frustration."

So this is my advice to you: fight hard.  Drink hard.  Walk alone.  Pack
a blaster that can take out a large metropolitan area.  If you meet a 
strag, kick him in the shin, and then while he's distracted, gouge out 
one eye and spit in the other one.  If you meet another hitchhiker, first
peel off all his skin with a Skinsu Skin Peeler (TM) and then cover him 
with an inflammable substance and set him on fire.  Especially if that
hitchhiker is my SOB of an ex-boyfriend, Fluffy Ziffle, last seen in a 
mint green El Camino Megajalopy headed for Golgafrincham.

Before you peel him, tell him I'm Extremely happy.  So happy they have to 
sedate me and keep me in restraints so I don't do something dangerous
in the throes of sheer rapture.  Also, I don't care if he gives me my
Disaster Area record back!  And that goes double for what's-her-face!


Absolute Zero, 2.
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The temperature of 0 degrees Kelvin, at which all particle movement ceases.
The most interesting thing about 0 degrees Kelvin is that all music played
at this temperature closely resembles one song from an obscure planet
named "Earth." [see Earth]  The song is called "I Do Not Want What I Haven't
Got" and the songwriter is known as Sin Eadoconner for arcane reasons which
seem related to severe hair loss.

A temperature actually colder than 0 degrees Kelvin has been discovered in
the Movie Megatheathers of the Summer Planet of Thur.  There, the mean 
temperature is -7 degrees Kelvin.  Interestingly, all music in the Movie 
Megatheaters of the Summer Planet of Thur sounds like an extended dance
mix of "I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got" by Sin Eadoconner.  The 
popularity of the Movie Megatheaters has declined rapidly in recent
years.

See also:
  • Earth
  • Metric System
  • Diddley-Squat

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