It has been a busy week for me with rehearsals every night for the play that I am in. We are doing “String of Pearls” by Michele Lowe at a community theatre near by, and I have had such a great time making the story come alive with an amazing cast. We open tonight, and I still have some last minute things to do, so this will be short today.
Before I post a bit of humor from Slim Randles, I do want to share a picture. The director of the play, Triston Pullen, took pictures of the cast and made memes that he shared on Facebook. He took this terrific shot of me as the character Beth. It is just one of the four roles I play, but a very important one and also my favorite.
And if you have a moment, hop on over to The Blood-Red Pencil blog where I have a post up about the pros and cons of newsletters as marketing tools.
Now here is Slim:
If they ever give a Nobel Prize for reading about science, our guy Bert Underwood would be a shoo-in. His own career had been strictly non-scientific, but his retirement absolutely reeked of cutting-edge discoveries, which he read about and tried to pronounce.
It was like that the other night when the Mule Barn closed. We had taken our wives down to split either a chicken-fried steak the size of a saddle blanket, or a plate of fish and chips large enough to feed a cavalry regiment. We stepped out into the chill of the night and looked up at the many stars.
“Nice night for neutrinos,” Bert said. His wife, Maizie, groaned quietly and looked for something in her purse.
“Neutrinos, Bert?” Doc said.
“You know what neutrinos are, of course, Doc,” Bert said.
“I think that’s the chess team in Fairweather, Doc,” Steve threw in.
“You’re wrong, Steve,” said Mrs. Doc. “Those are the Machismos.”
“So the neutrinos … aren’t they dogs that have been fixed?”
Bert was ready to bust a gut. “Are you kidding? You don’t know what neutrinos are? You don’t study astronomy?”
“Well, no, actually…”
Bert smiled in the darkness. “A neutrino,” he pronounced, “is a sub-atomic particle. It doesn’t have an electrical charge, and it flies around at the speed of light going through things. The word neutrino means ‘small, neutral one’.”
“Just like Gilbert’s Chihuahua. He charges around going through things… and I’m pretty sure he’s been neutralled.”
“I don’t know why I even bother bringing up these scientific things,” Bert said, in despair.
“Me neither,” said Dud.
“You probably don’t know about charmed quarks, either, I’ll bet.”
“Charmed, I’m sure,” said Steve.
Doc made wing-flapping gestures. “Quark, quark … QUARK!”
Bert got in the car and drove off.
Sometimes drive-by knowledge can hurt innocent bystanders.
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I hope you have a terrific weekend. Do you have any special plans? I will be at the theatre tonight, Saturday night, and Sunday afternoon, playing on stage. One of my favorite things to do.