on her door, “... M. Curie?”
“Mariah,” said the neighbor reluctantly.
“Pleased to meet you!” said Galileo, who had every intention of expanding further on the subject, but just then remembered that he had to tell Johnny about his success. “Well, I must be going, so... I’ll meet you... you can come over for... uh... if you need any sugar or something... I live upstairs.” Then he left hurriedly.
M. Curie went back to her apartment and took two radium pills for her headache. What was that all about?
~
“So tell me,” said Johnny. “When do you get off? Maybe we can...”
“What?” said Ada, who suddenly remembered that she was supposed to be angry with the (admittedly cute) redheaded guy. “What the hellerya talkin’ about? Getouttahere!”
“Look,” said Johnny with an expression of sincerity (or so he believed—to Ada it seemed as if he was trying to check for something in his teeth), “it’s just that, er, I like you, and I thought, you know...”
“I don’t know nothin’,” said Ada.
Johnny looked at her quietly.
“You know what?” she said. “Fine. Woist case, I punch yer face in, right? I get off at—”
“There you are!” said Galileo, strolling in gaily. “It works!”
“What woiks?” asked Ada.
“It works?” asked Johnny.
“It works! I met a girl, my neighbor, and the love machine... it’s amazing!”
“It does?” asked Johnny.
“A love machine?” asked Ada.
“It’s unbelievable! I suddenly felt, you know, kinda hot, I went downstairs, and the neighbor... her name is...”
“?” asked Johnny. “I didn’t believe it would work...”
“A love machine ?!” asked Ada.
“Yes!” said Galileo.
“Where, if the twoayoos don’t mind, is this... machine ?”
“Right there,” said Galileo innocently, and pointed at the chain on Johnny’s neck.
“You! ” snapped Ada at Johnny, “You bastard! Comin’ to me with a machine ? You think a machine would make me to fall for you, you mangy little piece of—” And slapped him.
“Oy!” said Johnny, astonished by this new development, and touched his stinging cheek.
“Owwwww!” said Galileo, and fell in love with Ada on the spot.
~
How could such a thing be explained? On reflection, Galileo probably would have used Bell’s Law of Noble Gases or the Boltzmann’s Inequality Principle as illustrative examples, citing the probability collapse of identically-charged photons emitted from an atom with lowered... and that’s as far as he’d get before being interrupted by whoever he’d be talking to. That would, at least, be the most probable scenario.
At any rate, it happened: a slap, Johnny’s chain transmitted a sudden pulse, Galileo’s chain made its superposition-or-something-or-other, and Galileo found himself head-over-heels in love with an irritated waitress.
~
Galileo stood there astounded, as his heart pounded.
“You don’t understand,” said Johnny, “It’s not what it looks like!” And he reached for Ada, who promptly smacked his hand away and roared “Don’t touch me!”
Galileo stood there astounded, as his heart pounded, his mind floundered—
“Not what it looks like, eh?” said Ada. “What is it, then?”
Johnny explained.
“You see,” he said, “If ...”
“You wannanother smack?”
“Huh? No, no! All right, then...” And he explained, this time in people-speak, what little he knew about the operation of the love machine.
Galileo stood there astounded, as his heart pounded, his mind floundered, his essence empowered—
“And this friend of yours,” said Ada.
“Galileo,” said Johnny.
“Whatever. So this friend of yours built this thing and put it on you because you... fell in love with me?”
“Yes,” said Johnny, blushing slightly.
“That,” said Ada, “is the stupidest line I ever hoid in my entire life! Get the hell outta here, the bothayews! Out!”
And thus she banished them.
~
Galileo stood there astounded, as his heart
“Mariah,” said the neighbor reluctantly.
“Pleased to meet you!” said Galileo, who had every intention of expanding further on the subject, but just then remembered that he had to tell Johnny about his success. “Well, I must be going, so... I’ll meet you... you can come over for... uh... if you need any sugar or something... I live upstairs.” Then he left hurriedly.
M. Curie went back to her apartment and took two radium pills for her headache. What was that all about?
~
“So tell me,” said Johnny. “When do you get off? Maybe we can...”
“What?” said Ada, who suddenly remembered that she was supposed to be angry with the (admittedly cute) redheaded guy. “What the hellerya talkin’ about? Getouttahere!”
“Look,” said Johnny with an expression of sincerity (or so he believed—to Ada it seemed as if he was trying to check for something in his teeth), “it’s just that, er, I like you, and I thought, you know...”
“I don’t know nothin’,” said Ada.
Johnny looked at her quietly.
“You know what?” she said. “Fine. Woist case, I punch yer face in, right? I get off at—”
“There you are!” said Galileo, strolling in gaily. “It works!”
“What woiks?” asked Ada.
“It works?” asked Johnny.
“It works! I met a girl, my neighbor, and the love machine... it’s amazing!”
“It does?” asked Johnny.
“A love machine?” asked Ada.
“It’s unbelievable! I suddenly felt, you know, kinda hot, I went downstairs, and the neighbor... her name is...”
“?” asked Johnny. “I didn’t believe it would work...”
“A love machine ?!” asked Ada.
“Yes!” said Galileo.
“Where, if the twoayoos don’t mind, is this... machine ?”
“Right there,” said Galileo innocently, and pointed at the chain on Johnny’s neck.
“You! ” snapped Ada at Johnny, “You bastard! Comin’ to me with a machine ? You think a machine would make me to fall for you, you mangy little piece of—” And slapped him.
“Oy!” said Johnny, astonished by this new development, and touched his stinging cheek.
“Owwwww!” said Galileo, and fell in love with Ada on the spot.
~
How could such a thing be explained? On reflection, Galileo probably would have used Bell’s Law of Noble Gases or the Boltzmann’s Inequality Principle as illustrative examples, citing the probability collapse of identically-charged photons emitted from an atom with lowered... and that’s as far as he’d get before being interrupted by whoever he’d be talking to. That would, at least, be the most probable scenario.
At any rate, it happened: a slap, Johnny’s chain transmitted a sudden pulse, Galileo’s chain made its superposition-or-something-or-other, and Galileo found himself head-over-heels in love with an irritated waitress.
~
Galileo stood there astounded, as his heart pounded.
“You don’t understand,” said Johnny, “It’s not what it looks like!” And he reached for Ada, who promptly smacked his hand away and roared “Don’t touch me!”
Galileo stood there astounded, as his heart pounded, his mind floundered—
“Not what it looks like, eh?” said Ada. “What is it, then?”
Johnny explained.
“You see,” he said, “If ...”
“You wannanother smack?”
“Huh? No, no! All right, then...” And he explained, this time in people-speak, what little he knew about the operation of the love machine.
Galileo stood there astounded, as his heart pounded, his mind floundered, his essence empowered—
“And this friend of yours,” said Ada.
“Galileo,” said Johnny.
“Whatever. So this friend of yours built this thing and put it on you because you... fell in love with me?”
“Yes,” said Johnny, blushing slightly.
“That,” said Ada, “is the stupidest line I ever hoid in my entire life! Get the hell outta here, the bothayews! Out!”
And thus she banished them.
~
Galileo stood there astounded, as his heart
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