Monday, March 13, 2006

twice upon a time (the further adventures of the little black fox)

twice upon a time there was a little black fox who kept being mistaken for a small black pussy cat. the little black fox was feeling very smug having not only escaped from the belly of a large black fox and a large brown bunny rabbit, but also having successfully negotiated a small black hole and emerged unscathed.

he was however feeling a little lonely as the small black hole had sucked in all the matter in the universe and he was left all on his own in an endless void.

his little black eyes welled with tears and he thought back with sorrow to the previous day when his tiny black brother had hit him in the face with a big black stick and given him the black eyes.

sniffling his little black nose somewhat he curled up in a little black corner and tried to block the black thoughts from his little black mind.

"ah well", he thought, "it could be worse".

12 comments:

Well Placed Comma said...

Fox. Empty Void.
Fox. IN Empty Void.

The pressure difference would cause him to... EXPLODE.

Other than that, nice story, Ben!

randomfrog said...

firstly, it wouldn't have been such a good story.

second, it would have been horribly messy.

and thirdly, the rules of physics is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules...

Anonymous said...

i agree with marin that in theory the fox should've exploded. but then, in theory, nothing can travel faster than light, can it? since physics is clearly made up just to annoy me, i think it should be ignored.

good story. but now that you've done two, there will have to be a third episode.

by the way, what had he done to deserve being hit in the face with a stick?

and if it was his little bro, why didnt he just beat him up?

if the fox did explode he could be like the brooms in fantasia...and then there'd be loads of little black foxes.

or maybe he did explode...maybe the universe we live in is entirely made up of exploded fox?

have i just uncovered the future plot?

shall i shut up now?

go outside and play children.

randomfrog said...

not so much uncovered, more sort of written! a nice good dollop of inspiration for the third installment when it arrives.

and i know that physics says that the fox should have exploded, but for a long while physics said that the bumble be couldn't fly... it makes these wild claims just to keep physicists in jobs proving things! so we shall be continuing to ignore physics for the forseeable future of the little black story

the mystery of the stick will be explained in the next installment. or at least it will be now you've brought it up!

ZoB1 said...

HOW!!?? How could it be worse?? That poor little black fox. You lot are sat there discusing pysics while the poor little black fox is crying!!!

(No I don't have emotions!!)

Well Placed Comma said...

Ben, just so you know, we still don't know how the Bumble Bee is able to fly. Though, saying that, we don't really know how planes fly, how ships are able to propell themselves in a controlled manner, what mass is, what energy is, whether there is a speed limit to the universe (ask Jude)... and most importantly, what the freekin' hell a Black Hole is.

I agree Zoe, the fox's pain is more important, but I still favour physics more than a story-fox.

randomfrog said...

the speed limit of the universe is well known to be 13mph, it's just that most things break it :-)

Well Placed Comma said...

So... the Universal Speed Limit is (3.2099E-10)% of the speed of light?

That's wee-ird.

randomfrog said...

well i don't make the rules...

ZoB1 said...

Actually....you do...

Anonymous said...

martin, are you seriously telling us that you worked 13mph as a percentage of the speed of light in a vacuum? why!?

anyhoo, doesn't matter that light is breaking the spped limit, so long as it doesn't get caught. black holes are actually the speed cameras of the universe. they're black cos the light is avoiding them so it doesn't get a speeding fine.

everyone knows that!

randomfrog said...

precisely. that's why there's a big "13mph" painted just *after* every black hole, so you know why you've just been flashed