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- [ A Slight Miscalculation ] [ By The GNN ]
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- "A SLIGHT MISCALCULATION"
- by THE GNN/DualCrew-Shining/uXu
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- Dedicated to the nearest Pentium processor.
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- Winston had travelled in time. But he came back to his present time five
- minutes too early. When he opened the round door to the time machine and
- looked out, he saw himself.
- "Fool!" Winston-outside-the-time-machine screamed to
- Winston-inside-the-time-machine.
- "I must have done a slight miscalculation." Winston mumbled as he
- stepped out and placed his bare feet on the cold floor in the basement,
- closing the door to the shiny capsule behind him.
- There was a short moment of uncomfortable silence.
- "Seen my shoes?" Winston-from-the-time-machine asked and looked around.
- "Listen, I have only one pair of shoes! And I use them right now!"
- "This complicates things..."
- Winston One (the man who just came out from the machine) looked at
- Winston Two (the man who used the only pair of shoes) and sighed. Then he
- sat down on a nearby chair and buried his hands in the face.
- "What a mess... " Winston One said.
- "You are sitting on my chair!" Winston Two claimed.
- "It is my chair too!"
- "Whatever. Very well... you better solve this situation somehow!"
- "Do not forget that you are talking to yourself." Winston One muttered,
- still holding his head in his hands.
- They decided to have a cup of coffee before they tried to figure out how
- the embarrassing situation ought to be solved. Winston Two went to the
- kitchen, and came back five minutes later with two hot cups.
- "Sugar?" Winston Two asked.
- Winston One did not reply. The answer was obvious.
- "Oh, yeah, right... I never use sugar nor milk..." Winston Two
- remembered.
- They drank the black coffee, staring at each other as if they were
- enemies.
- "Where is my... our wife?" Winston One asked, looking at the ceiling.
- "Belinda is not at home (thank god)", Winston Two said and quickly
- gulped down the last drop from the cup.
- "True." Winston one said and recalled that she was still at work.
- The door to the capsule swung open. Winston Three stepped out, looking
- around for a pair of shoes to cover his bare feet with. Then he saw the
- others.
- "I must have done..." Winston Three begun.
- "...a SLIGHT miscalculation!" Winston One and Two concluded.
- After a couple of minutes more, Winston Four arrived.
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- Belinda came home two hours later. She opened the door to the basement
- and almost lost her mind when she was greeted by twenty-six Winstons.
- "Hello sugar!" they shouted.
- "Winston!" she yelled.
- "Yes, love?" they all answered.
- "What the (curse) have you (yet another curse) done?"
- "It was not my fault!" they all replied (including the newly arrived
- Winston Twenty-seven).
- Violently, she closed the door to the basement. The Winstons sighed.
- They had a little conference, trying to figure out what to do. Four
- more Winstons arrived.. Winston Nine suggested that the machine ought to
- be destroyed. Winston Twenty claimed that everyone ought to kill
- themselves (except him, since he was the REAL Winston). Winston Five
- agreed with Winston Twenty, but added that he was the one who ought to live
- since HE for sure was the real Winston. Winston Five and Twenty started to
- fight, while Winston Eleven screamed that they all ought to put themselves
- to death (and he was gladly going to do it for them (he promised that he
- would kill himself too, when everybody else was dead, but naturally no one
- believed that obvious lie)). Winston Six raised his hand and wondered why
- no one had yet pulled the plug of the machine. No one answered. Nine more
- Winstons had arrived. Winston thirty-nine asked for a pair of shoes.
- Winston Two turned the machine off. No more Winstons arrived.
- "Good work!" Thirty-nine Winstons shouted and did thumbs-up to Winston
- Two.
- Suddenly Belinda carefully sneaked the door to the basement open again
- and peeked inside. This time forty Winstons greeted her. With a little
- shriek she quickly slammed the door shut. Winston Eight tried to make a
- rush for the stairs, but was stopped by two other Winstons (Seven and
- Nineteen), who taught him a little lesson with their knuckles.
- "Enough!" Winston One screamed to the three fighting Winstons.
- The basement was very tight. The forty Winstons almost had to stand on
- each other.
- "We cannot continue this ridiculous game any more!" someone said
- (probably Winston Twenty-one).
- "Of course not, but what the hell are we supposed to do?" Winston Nine
- commented.
- No one answered. That was not surprising. Of forty different people,
- one might come up with a great idea that no one had thought of - but not
- when the the forty people were the same individual.
- After a short while, Winston Two said: "Perhaps we could just..."
- He cleared his throat, indicating that he had the solution.
- "Perhaps we could just forget about this intermezzo? Leave this
- basement and all live normal lives in this time? That is..."
- Winston Two was interrupted by laughter.
- "I do not believe Belinda will fancy forty husbands." said Winston One,
- Eighteen and Twenty at the same time. "Even though she has announced some
- strange sexual desires lately, I can hardly think this is what she had in
- mind..."
- "Oh please!" Winston Thirty said, clearly annoyed.
- "Not to mention our boss...", Winston Eleven continued, "would he find
- it amusing to pay thirty-nine more people?"
- "We are in real trouble." Winston Three muttered.
- "Nay, YOU are in trouble," Winston Four said, "Because I am the real..."
- Yet another fight started. This time Winston Eight, Nine and
- Twenty-five attacked Winston Four. During the chaos someone accidentally
- pushed Winston Thirty-six, who banged his head into the 'on' button of the
- machine.
- A familiar face, Winston Forty-one, immediately opened the door and
- stepped out.
- "Hello!" he said with a jolly voice.
- "Hello..." forty tired people answered with one voice.
- Winston Forty-one realized the situation.
- "Oh," he grunted, "I must have done a slight..."
- "Further information not necessary..." Winston One explained.
- Winston Fourteen was about to turn the machine off again, but Winston
- Five stopped him.
- "What are you doing?" Winston Fourteen asked.
- Winston Five did not answer. Instead, he climbed into the capsule.
- Before he closed the door behind him, he said with a calm voice: "Turn it
- off when I have left. I am tired of this mess. I am off to the beginning
- of the century. I think I will like it there."
- There was a humming sound from the machine, then he was gone. Winston
- Fourteen grabbed the new opportunity.
- "I will leave for the dark ages! Present time sucks anyway!"
- Yet another humming sound. Winston Fourteen was gone too.
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- Half an hour later, thirty-eight Winstons had left the basement for
- different, carefully chosen, parts of history. Three left; Winston One,
- Two and Thirty.
- "Where did you plan to go guys?" Winston One asked. "I thought
- about..." He smiled and got a dreaming glance in his eyes. "...the
- fifties."
- "Go ahead." Winston Two said. Winston Thirty nodded.
- Winston One left. Winston Two and Thirty looked at each other.
- "What about Belinda?" Winston Thirty asked with a worried face.
- "Do not worry. I will stay. I mean, I was the one who was here first.
- Go ahead."
- "Thanks! Time of misery and plague - here I come!"
- Winston Thirty was gone. Winston Two quickly turned the machine off.
- He felt relieved.
- The door to the basement opened once again. It was of course Belinda.
- "Is this darn circus over now?" she yelled.
- "Yes."
- "Good!" she continued, sounding like a witch from a very warm place .
- "Perhaps Mister Science will take care of the (curse) garden, wash the
- (even worse curse) car, clean the living room, make dinner and act like a
- (incredible strong curse) NORMAL husband then!"
- The door slammed shut, but opened again after two seconds.
- "... and for christ sake, get that (curse) (curse) (curse) device,
- machine, thing, whatever, out of MY house!"
- The door violently closed again. This time it stayed shut.
- Winston sighed, mostly because he had not breathed while she talked.
- Then he turned the machine back on, opened the capsule and made his way
- inside.
- "Belinda will not miss me," he giggled, "I believe she will for sure get
- enough. Ancient time, here I come!"
- Then he was gone.
- When Belinda returned to the basement, ready to teach her lazy husband a
- hard lesson in manners, fifteen Winstons asked her if she had seen a pair
- of shoes around.
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- What on earth happened to a writer called Sarlo?
- Someone ought to know. Meanwhile, CALL THE STASH!
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