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The Fate of the Multiverse

One fine morning, a young man was walking through Highland Park in Minnesota.   His eye was drawn to a perfectly shaped walking stick. Picking it up, he used it as a saber, slashing at the bushes around him.   Bored, he tossed the stick into the forested area out of his view.   “Ouch” a voice cried.   The young man, fearing the worst, ran through the forest to offer help.   There he came upon a soothsayer.   He recognized the woman as a soothsayer because he had seen images of them in books and movies.   Still he was surprised to find one in Bloomington Minnesota.   “Gee I am really sorry I hit you with the stick”, the young man apologized.  “You are not quite what I expected” the old woman said. “I expected you to have fewer freckles, like your other counterparts.” “Counterparts, what counterparts?” The soothsayer was amazed that the young man had never heard of the multiverse.   The woman explained that the multiverse was the great exp...

The Title Game Exercise

                                                                                      Macrocephalic Lenard walked through the doors of his high school with his head down trying to ignore the insults of the students walking by.  “Melon head, Pumpkin head, Bobble head”, he had heard them all.  Indeed, Lenard had a very large head.  Lenard was macrocephalic.  How he got such a head, no one knows for sure.  Some say he was born with it, others say he got it in an accident. Whatever the case, Lenard was tormented and humiliated by the other kids. But all that was about to change. On Friday, sign up for the volleyball team was underway and already seven students were signed...