amazing feats

[lolaraincoat]

A friend of a friend wrote this in ninth grade and I've treasured it up in my head ever since:

Keats and Yeats
on roller skates
went rolling through a wood

Said Yeats to Keats:
"Amazing feats!
Your poetry is good."

...

So, speaking of amazing feats of genius, there is this astonishing (and only sort of credible) news. Those wacky jokers at

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[ancarett]

It's always something but that doesn't mean it's any fun to endure pain and problems.

Sending you lots of positive vibes for an easy surgery and a quick recovery. And a lot of amusing poetry. Probably not wildly amusing as I never think it's good to mix surgical recovery and belly-laughs. So get those in before!

[lolaraincoat]

Oh yes, belly laughs are part of my brilliant plan to strengthen my core muscles as much as possible before surgery day.

[goseaward]

My favorite bit about the CERN news has been this joke:

The bartender says, "I'm sorry, we don't serve tachyons here."

A tachyon walks into a bar.

[lolaraincoat]

Ah hah hah thank you! And I'm especially pleased that I can understand that joke.

[fledgist]

My sympathies. Pain hurts. It should be avoided.

[lolaraincoat]

Thanks. Drugs help, but distraction is even better - yay for the infinitely distracting internet!

Hey, if time travel moves from a theoretically possibility to actually existing, what will the implications be for the job market for historians?

[fledgist]

Or tour operators: See the Crucifixion, live! Visit beautiful Xian! Roll up! Roll up! Here's your chance to see Tenochtitlán before Cortés fucked it up! Ladies and gents, this way to the Golden Road to Samarkand!

[lolaraincoat]

Oooh, the pre-Cambrian-Event safari!

[amanuensis1]

I love that poem! Now I'll always remember how to pronounce them. :D

Hope you feel good way more often than you feel bad. *hugs*