A discerning weasel

[jgou...@panix.com]

When I saw the following stories, I couldn't resist.

Large Hadron Collider, world's largest machine, broken by 'rogue
weasel who bit through power cable'
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/29/weasel-causes-large-hadron-collider-shutdown/

Weasel Apparently Shuts Down World's Most Powerful Particle
Collider : The Two-Way : NPR
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/29/476154494/weasel-shuts-down-world-s-most-powerful-particle-collider


To: "Pop Goes the Weasel" [traditional]


VERSE

The CERN collider has a few quirks.
It doesn't run on diesel.
A critter came to gum up the works:
Pop goes the weasel.

BRIDGE

Physicists intensively trained,
To make a clear appraisal,
Of reams of data they've obtained,
Stopped by the weasel.

VERSE

The most complex machine ever built,
May lie beneath some teasel,
But no more hadrons hurtle full tilt,
Stopped by the weasel.

BRIDGE

The hunt for boson particle tracks,
And symmetries of these'll,
Be the butt of snarky cracks,
Topped by the weasel.



-- Jim Goulder

[Arthur T.]

In Message-ID:<ngecvh$mrl$1...@reader1.panix.com>,

""Jim Goulder"" <jgou...@panix.com> wrote:

> When I saw the following stories, I couldn't resist.

I'm glad you didn't.

--
Arthur T. - ar23hur "at" pobox "dot" com

[Kay Shapero]

In article <ngecvh$mrl$1...@reader1.panix.com>, jgou...@panix.com says...

>
> To: "Pop Goes the Weasel" [traditional]
>
>
> VERSE
>
> The CERN collider has a few quirks.
> It doesn't run on diesel.
> A critter came to gum up the works:
> Pop goes the weasel.
>

Oh my - Love It!!!!!

[X-Lydia]

This is too good not to share; I mustela friend...

[Gary McGath]

On 5/4/16 11:00 PM, Jim Goulder wrote:
> The most complex machine ever built,
> May lie beneath some teasel,

If security guards were fired because of the incident, they probably
said, "We're not going to let any dipsacus!"

(I had to look up "teasel.")

--
Gary McGath http://www.mcgath.com
Tomorrow's Songs Today: The History of Filk http://www.mcgath.com/tst