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High energy girls

21 March, 2008

Georg notes that I seem to have a thing about the Pipettes (I don't really; I just like the name). So, as an Easter treat, she sent me this fascinating snippet:

From (hah!) Wikipedia:

Les Horribles Cernettes was founded by a secretary of the CERN, whose romantic relationship with a physicist was made difficult by numerous shifts. The girl attracted his attention by stepping on stage during the "CERN Hardronic Festival", singing "Collider", a melancholy song about the lonely nights endured by the girlfriend of a high energy physicist (excerpt):


I gave you a golden ring to show you my love

You went to stick it in a printed circuit

To fix a voltage leak in your collector

You plug my feelings into your detector

You never spend your nights with me

You don't go out with other girls either

You prefer your collider

You only love your collider

Your collider.

Which I find strangely wondrous. The first photo on the web thing? That's just fluff.

Happy Easter y'all


BK xxxx

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