< tragedy >

[rayheinrich]

< tragedy >

in the last available instant
before your locomotive
of frozen delight
arrives

the hamburger of death
eats you
- - -

P.S. for extra points:
"in the last available instant" or
"within the last available instant" or
"on the last available instant" or
"at the last available instant" ?
i.e.
Does an "instant" have an inside or is it, like a "point", infinitesimal?
What about "moment"?
Or OK, maybe "second"?

And does the "hamburger of death" take longer than above to eat you?
How long? Related to some inverse function of the number of angels
needed to manufacture each frozen delight?

[. . . .]

Well as I understand it, there is no instant or a now. Just a before and after because time is constantly flowing. You either are going to or you have done.
Locomotive of frozen delight - that brain freeze that crushes your skull from sucking down that ice cream cone too quick.
Hamburger of death. McDonalds quarter pounder adds just a lil too much cholesterol or saturated fat to your arteries and the ticker stops ticking.


Or not.

[addy]

Does an "instant" have an inside or is it, like a "point", infinitesimal?

I guess it's like a point, in that it is a totally imaginary construct

And does the "hamburger of death" take longer than above to eat you?
How long? Related to some inverse function of the number of angels
needed to manufacture each frozen delight?

Sorry, I suck at math

[srijantje]

time can stand still,you know,at least in your imagination

[grannyjill]

< tragedy >
before your locomotive
of frozen delight
arrives

the hamburger of death
eats you
- - -

(What points are those?) And it doesn't! It does this slowly, slowly over numerous years.

[rayheinrich]

grannyjill said: "(What points are those?)"

Those would be higgledy piggledy points redeemable in... oh, sorry,
just looked it up: it seems that higgledy piggledy points are irredeemable.


grannyjill said: "And it doesn't! It does this slowly, slowly over numerous years."

Maybe for UK burgers... but I was talkin' 'bout the Tejas 666 Triple Burger
of Death; the Official Food of Satan ™.

[grannyjill]

You're pulling my leg (what a strange expression!) There ain't no such animal.

.........mind you, a web search did pick up

The Heart Attack Grill - American hamburger restaurant, which has a hospital theme and serves high cholesterol food and drink by waitresses dressed like nurses. (anyone over 350 lbs eats for free)

[billy]

< tragedy >

in the last available instant
before your locomotive
of frozen delight
arrives

the hamburger of death
eats you
- - -

P.S. for extra points:
"in the last available instant" or
"within the last available instant" or
"on the last available instant" or
"at the last available instant" ?
i.e.
Does an "instant" have an inside or is it, like a "point", infinitesimal?
What about "moment"?
Or OK, maybe "second"?

And does the "hamburger of death" take longer than above to eat you?
How long? Related to some inverse function of the number of angels
needed to manufacture each frozen delight?

hehe i thought it was a sex poem

[grannyjill]

How long? Related to some inverse function of the number of angels
needed to manufacture each frozen delight?

Are those angels on the point
or on the head
of a pin?
It makes a difference
when making
desserts out of snow,
you know.

[rayheinrich]

.
"The Heart Attack Grill"

Yes, right you are again.

And gosh, somebody who actually takes 10 seconds to google!
(I am SO tired of people who complain to me about not knowing
the meaning of a word or some such nonsense. I tell them
that I refuse to act stupid until they stop acting smart.)

P.S. Must make note: "Note: granny woman is dangerous."

---

How long? Related to some inverse function of the number of angels
needed to manufacture each frozen delight?

Are those angels on the point
or on the head
of a pin?
It makes a difference
when making
desserts out of snow,
you know.

Pin? Head? They're on the cowcatcher, of course!

[grannyjill]

Do you really have those things in Ameriky? How many cows can they catch?

ps. What the flippin' eck are angels doing on the track anyways?

[rayheinrich]

Do you really have those things in Ameriky? How many cows can they catch?

ps. What the flippin' eck are angels doing on the track anyways?

[font=Courier New][size=1]
Yes, we use the exact same word here. And as to the physical object
semiotically cleaved to said word: yes, it exists as well.

Up to 2.5 cows.

The angels are doing it on the cowcatcher, not on the track; it's the
angles that are on the track.

[grannyjill]

So, what you're saying is -
there are angels on cow-catchers
scooping up buckets of snow
to turn into delectable sweet deserts
'Crikey', 'Well, I never' and 'Wow!'
I thought they only did miracles
like helping George Bailey and his ilk
I didn't know they divided their time
between the rail-road and McDonalds
serving burgers, cocoa-cola and milk
(shakes)

[rayheinrich]

George Bailey is a saint. Other than that, yes.

[grannyjill]

You lie through your teeth, you dog! (who said that?)

[rayheinrich]

You lie through your teeth, you dog! (who said that?)

Krepta3000 said this in a response to RedDog posted on LIVE Radio Worlds'
Temporal Observatory Forum on 08-23-2009.

Here's the entire quote:

"You lie through your teeth you dog! I will put you down with a
bolt of lightning! Kapow! I will discuss this nonsense no further
with you. May you rot in a pit of smelly banana peals."
.

[Leanne]

< tragedy >

in the last available instant
before your locomotive
of frozen delight
arrives

the hamburger of death
eats you
- - -

Ahem. If I may be so bold as to return to the poem :p... I've not kept up with the conversation, so forgive me if I seem repetitive, redundant or repulsive...

I have a picture of the hamburger of death eating "you" from the inside out, having already been consumed as the main meal in anticipation of more cholesterol-laden desserty badness (but cold this time). Now, "instant" is an interesting word to me for a whole bunch of reasons -- these days, "instant" seems to apply to almost every packaged food and it's probably fair to assume that the health benefits of said foods are directly proportional to the level of "instantness". For example, if one chooses an "instant dinner" (microwave for 3 minutes, so hardly "instant", but who here would split hairs?) over the dinner that takes an entire half an hour to prepare, one receives one-tenth the benefit. Of course, there are the intangibles to consider -- one also has the extra leisure time to plonk oneself down on the couch to watch "The Biggest Loser". One also gains far more from an instant meal: a good dollop of cholesterol, plenty of sulfur dioxide and other chemical lovelies, a nice helping of sugar or the phenylalanine of the day... and best of all, that warm microwave glow.

"Instant" gratification is the real killer, both of chunky hamburger lovers and of culture everywhere.

[abu nuwas]

As a counter-weight to Leanne's thoughtful comments, and as interesting as are your speculations about the possibility of a nano-instant, basically, you're pulling my pisser, aren't you?

[Erthona]

Being from Texas, I know that the 666 burger (actually the four sixes, which is a ranch Burk Burnett won in a poker game with...four sixes) is really the corporate death burger as this is the only burger to have teeth, thus being capable of eating you, but actually does so through the excretion of acidic juices of LUST (Lucrative Unilateral System of Trade).

Now to the meat of the matter.

It is not "instant" that should be up for debate, it is "available". "Instant" is an a priori fact in this poem (not to mention relative), it is the assumption that said "instants" can be, or not be "available". The question then becomes, what does a non-available instant look like and what is the ratio of available to non-available instants, and does it resemble the grill work on the cattle-catcher, if attached to a train, or cattle-guard if embedded in the ground, and do angels on a cattle-catcher serve the same basic (notice I said basic) function that gargoyles do on a building, that is to say, increase its value. And... does this depend on the inverse square law as it applies to the Higgs Boson, since it is necessary that all the fundamental (notice I said fundamental)forces must in fact be unified in order to make any headway in this synthetic a priori assumption that instants can be made in one of two flavors, thus explaining the "frozen" aspect as a function of time dilation, without which it would render (that is to extract gluons from) this desert confection much less attractive, which of course would be a CP violation, especially as it relates to the strong nuclear force. Now as to the facts of this. The answer is yes, if one can create a Bose-Einstein condensate of instants it could be possible by alternate tuning of a pair of non-entangled lasers to kick instants out of the condensate and by noting which responded to which laser determine if instants come in two flavors, i.e., available and non-available, thus determining if the idea of "available instants" is in fact a legitimate conjecture.

Re: Leanne's comment, I have no hairs to split.
Re: Ed's comment about pulling. Well that would be nice, but one rarely finds that sort of congeniality nowadays.

Dale

[grannyjill]

Hey what are the chances of this? My friend yesterday told me what Higgs Boson means in relation to that thingy under the ground where they are making wotsits collide, and to-day you talk of it.
Naturally, I have no idea what she told me since it was yesterday and I have been to sleep since then...but, never-the-less - isn't that an amazing coincidence?

I have read your very learned explanation about mumble, mumble, mumble and can only say that unfortunately you have only succeeding in obfuscating (how I have longed to use that word) what was once quite a simple matter. Have you ever thought of going into politics?