Death, Flirting And

Getting Some After Passing On

by Jeff Kramer (lthumper@bga.com)
written 30 Oct 1995

This article is classified "Fictional"


It has been noted, by some people in the medical and scientific community,
especially the old ones with a lot of time on their hands, how greatly 
death affects a human's ability to flirt.  A crack team of over seventy
researchers (not more than seventy researchers, but researchers over
seventy) set out to study the problem, and will hopefully come up with a
solution.  Debate on whether these researchers were inspired by the quest
for knowledge, or the lack of social contact still rages at Cambridge, but
has for the most part passed into the annals of history in most other
institutions.

The team worked feverishly for over a year, playing dominoes and gin till
one of them died.  Eventually a 20 year old intern keeled over onto the
dominoes board, quivered once, and died.  The cause of death was evaluated
as "sheer boredom", but the researchers had their guinea pig...  They
chopped the intern into little bits, and stuck them into petri dishes with 
a special germ known as 'flirtatious carnivirus', which, when exposed to 
large amounts of flirt-radiation, tends to become outraged and lodges sexual harassment suits with 
the nearest lawyer.  The test lawyer was a young
graduate named Ernest Whittley, a spineless scum of a lawyer, destined for
large settlements and a life of personally dispensed agony.

The tests involved putting Ernest Whittley in a box covered with a solution
reactive to "flirtatious carnivirus", code named "glass ceiling".  The
intern-bits dishes were placed on a table five feet from the box, and were
let alone for an hour.  Every minute the researchers would check how much
"glass ceiling" had been activated, and thereby rated each intern-bit on
its flirt count.  The results were astonishly conclusive, showing that 
noses, toes, and hands were very flirty after death, and armpits, ear
canals, and knees were utterly un-flirty.

A team of chemical biologists, intent on getting some action after they
passed on, invented a flirt drug, and tested it on the group.  This
resulted in an unnaturally large production of flirt-radiation, and so the
research facility became the most popular building on the site.  The
researchers were about to file their findings with the international
conference on sexuality, but were slapped with a 50 trillion dollar sexual
harassment lawsuit by Ernest Whittley, whereupon they all keeled over dead,
and their findings were lost forever.  Some researchers that were too proud
to join the project attempted to create the compound out of the researchers
remains, but for some unexplainable reason every last one of them had been
the victim of grave robbers, and their bodies have never been found.

See also:
  • Boredom
  • Life After Death
  • Death And The Afterlife
  • Afterlife, The
  • Communicating With The Dead, A Guide To

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