In Keith’s words. “Using this photo (below) as inspiration, write a short story, flash fiction, scene, poem; anything, really; even just a caption for the photograph. Either put it (or a link to it) in a comment or email it to me at keith@channing.info before 6 pm next Sunday (if you aren’t sure what the time is where I live, this link will tell you). If you post it on your own blog or site, a link to this page would be appreciated, but please do also mention it in a comment here – pingbacks don’t often work.
Go on. You know you want to. Let your creativity and imagination soar. I shall display the entries, with links to your own blog or web site, next Monday.”
The Photo.
The Science by John W. Howell © 2017
“I’m so glad we have this break. I have been working my fingers to the bone.”
“To the bone. Sounds pretty dramatic.”
“Well maybe I have overstated the situation, but I’m exhausted.”
“What have you been doing?”
“We have been trying to solve a problem with Quantum Physics.”
“What kind of problem?”
“It is pretty complicated.”
“Try me.”
“We need to put a forty ton spacecraft into orbit with only twenty ton of energy.”
“Ah. Sounds like a Theory of Relativity problem to me.”
“Solved with a Quantum equation, right?”
“I don’t know I would try E=MC squared.”
“Hmm. Let me put that into my calculator.”
“Okay, how’s it going?”
“A little slow.”
“You need me to explain the Theory of Relativity?”
“I understand the Theory of relativity. What I don’t get is how to clear this thing.”
“Give me that.”
Fiction Favorites 
Here’s a thought.
If A²=B²+C², then C²=A²-B², from which E=M(A²-B²).
Does that make it clear?
π anyone?
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Make mine banana cream.
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LOL!! So funny, John. Your wild imagination keeps us all entertained. LOL!! Happy day to you! 🙂
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Thank you so much, Gwen. Love to hear it brought some laughs.
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This is hilarious, John! Happy Tuesday!
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Thanks, Jill. Happy Tuesday to you as well.
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Just turn it off and then back on. 😀 Has anyone ever really worked their fingers to the bone? I assume somebody had to for the term to exist.
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I wonder. I think it would be fun to imagine the source of all the idioms. This one I think would be someone sanding a big project and running out of sandpaper.
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Ouch. I did woodshop in high school and I remember slipping with sandpaper. It hurts a lot.
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Yes it does.
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Good one, John.
To me the older guy is saying, “Can you believe the hair-dos back then?!”
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Ha ha ha. Good one GP. 😀
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Thanks.
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Haha. Sounds right. Theory of Relativity, no problem. Calculator, no way! I’m reading a book on Quantum Therory right now. Well, not literally now. Now I’m commenting on your blog. But in anouther dimension I might be zipping through a worm hole to the other side of the galaxy. Hey, that sounds fun. I want to go be my other self for a day.
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You go. Enjoy your other self. 🙂
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I am. 😜
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😀
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☄️💫💥🌝
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🌞⭐️💫💥☄️
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Another entertaining interpretation.
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Thank you, Teri. 😀
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This is why we haven’t been back to the moon since they stopped using slide rules.
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I know right? Thanks, Dan
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Lol! And I thought he was showing him pictures of his pets and grandchildren. 🙂
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You would think, right? Remember who is writing this stuff. 😀 Thanks, Jan
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Reblogged this on Die Erste Eslarner Zeitung – Aus und über Eslarn, sowie die bayerisch-tschechische Region!.
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Oh wait, a cute cat video. Let’s watch it first.
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Ha ha ha. 😀
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Very good one, John! Make mine butter pecan!
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Probably needs a reboot. Unplug everything, wait a couple of minutes, then plug it back in. At least, that’s what they always tell me to do for the TV and the computer! Nicely done, John.
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Thanks, Debbie. Might be easier to hit the clear all button.
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And then Satan said, let’s put the alphabet in math. 🙂
Fun, as always, John!
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John, working in the IT field, this hits too close to home… 😉 Well done.
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I remember graduate statistics. Had an HP calculator which was reverse programming. I was doing a Chi Square on an exam and finally went to the professor and borrowed his Casio.
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This is WAAAAAAYYYY over my head. 🙂
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Yeah, right.
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Thanks, Keith
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