One Amusing Odd Story

Below is an odd story that I never get tired of reading. It is like a cartoon show. Got it from

http://entertainment.tv.yahoo.com/entnews/wwn/20070108/116826840003.html

Astronomer Rebuked for Endless Staring into Space
Monday January 8, 2007

MAUNA KEA, Hawaii — Dave Becklyn has watched the stars’ paths for two years at this outpost of the National Astronomy Institute. But now he’s got nothing to study but a grim report from his superiors.

“We suspect that due to exposure to the drowsy drone of cosmic background radiation, and with the universe yawning before him, Dr. Becklyn has been counting sheep instead of galaxies,” said Institute Chairman Franklin Schnoub, who has suspended the astronomer pending a hearing.

The young astronomer says he’s ready to go nova after hearing the chairman’s nebulous claims.

“I’m probing the secrets of the cosmos — the nature of dark matter, the origins of everything — for forty solid hours a week,” Becklyn said. “What looks like inertia is actually intense focus.”

“He’s not finding any new stars, planets, or even earthward-bound asteroids,” Schnoub retored. “We can’t keep funding an empty quest.”

“I didn’t make the heavens, I just record them!” replied an indignant Becklyn, who insisted that he will travel back to the Institute’s wintry Minnesota headquarters next week to meet with his boss.

“Then Schnoub will be seeing some new stars — I guarantee it,” Becklyn said.