Dear Mr. Large Hadron Collider....

[dan_bo]

...You don't seriously expect us to swallow this 'ripples from the future' business as a real reason for your tardiness are you?

Pull your bloody finger out man, we want to see the face of God!

 

[johnnyh]

it's simply a case of someone nipping out and getting the correct euro plug adapter!

honestly...

 

[jpembroke]

I wonder if it has anything to do with my dad not unplugging the satellite decoder before leaving his house in France.......

 

[rh100]

so after reading that - maybe they did break the universe after all

 

[rich p]

There are some very good replies to that article such as...

Future ripples and multiverses my arse, it doesn't work because they've ballsed up the wiring. Same thing happened with our boiler.

 

[Mr Pig]

Don't worry. These people are scientists, I'm sure they know what they're doing.

 

[Kirstie]

No such luck. You need one of these unless you can plug the Hardon in a shaver socket:

Plug the what now?

 

[Davidc]

Nah.

either

1) Spent billions building the blo**y thing, haven't got a euro coin left for the electricity meter.

2) Load of immigrant scientists from all over the place. Greek guy said (translated) "Is it the red wire on top and the green one below it?" Dutch guy said (untranslated) "nee."

or

3) What do you expect if you let a load of scientists loose with screwdrivers. leave the wiring to the electricians!

 

[johnnyh]

you just know it is down to a missing inanimate carbon rod... and that the rod in question is currently being used to stir tea in the CERN canteen

 

[Andy in Sig]

Or somebody's gone fishing with it in Lake Geneva.

 

[fossyant]

Bet Dr Who's buggered it up with the sonic screwdriver, in an attempt to stop a horde of Darleks jumping the time vortex.....

 

[dellzeqq]

you just know it is down to a missing inanimate carbon rod... and that the rod in question is currently being used to stir tea in the CERN canteen

a long time ago I knew somebody who worked at CERN. He was investigating the period of time that went from the Big Bang to about 1/100,000th of a second after the Big Bang. He said that the nearest model they had was water being boiled for tea. Apparently they drank a lot of tea.

 

[rh100]

Bet Dr Who's buggered it up with the sonic screwdriver, in an attempt to stop a horde of Darleks jumping the time vortex.....

Is that in the christmas special? - I do hope so

 

[dan_bo]

I used to have a client who warmed his lunchtime meat 'n' tater pie in a £60,000 ultra-clean Gas Chromatography oven.

Bloody public sector workers............

 

[fossyant]

I used to have a client who warmed his lunchtime meat 'n' tater pie in a £60,000 ultra-clean Gas Chromatography oven.

Bloody public sector workers............

My ex-clubmate used to work for Philips on the Microwave technology - (not the ovens - comms) - but they used to warm up their lunch near equipment....