From: hoconnel@physics.adelaide.edu.au (Heath O'Connell)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre
Subject: Beverly Hills 2.71828
Date: 14 Aug 92 03:07:03 GMT


                 BEVERLY HILLS 2.71828
                        ACT 1
 Brandon (MB) is in his room, reading; his twin-sister, Brenda (KW) comes
 in in an excited mood.
 BRENDA: Isn't this party going to be the most?!
 
 BRANDON: what party?
 (Brenda hits him, as she knows he is just teasing her, because he is not
 keen on going.)
 
 BRENDA:Don't play dumb, you know Matty Harris is giving a party. And you're
 going to be there.
 
 BRANDON: A bunch of kids, I mean everyone is so Adelaide University.
 
 BRENDA: Well look, just come in and stay for an hour, and if you hate it
 you can leave.
 
 BRANDON: Look, do I have to spell this out, the guy's a physicist; does
 Mom know that, have you told her?
 (Brenda looks uncomfortable.)
 
 BRENDA: You wouldn't tell her would you. God Brandon, just for once don't
 you feel like abandoning rigour and just accepting results and methods that
 seem to work, even if they don't have a sound background.
 
 BRANDON: Sure Brenda, who doesn't, but what would Mom say if she knew about
 this; you know the rules.
 
 BRENDA: Rules, rules, rules. Your whole life is about obeying rules.
 
 BRANDON: Somebody's gotta.

                        ACT 2
  (The scene is Matt Harris' party set against a musical backdrop of your
 favourite Pet Shop Boys song.)

 Brenda(KW): Kelly(HOC), have you seen Brandon(MB)?

 Kelly: Yes, he's just over there.
         (Brandon is with a group of physicists, who seem privy to some joke
of
 which he is unaware.)

 Brandon:(In a loud voice) Look man, you just can't assume that you can
 integrate that function over the region you're considering!

 MH: Hey man, chill! We were just seeing what would happen, nobody was going
to
 get hurt or anything. Come on loosen up, are you always this rigorous?
   (Brandon leaves the group and walks over to Brenda and Kelly)

 Brandon: C'mon Bren' let's get out of here...

 Kelly: Brandon, c'mon; that's just the way we do things around here, they
were
 only trying to see if a physically plausible result could be obtained, it's
 nothing any of us hasn't done.

 Brandon: Yeah? Well maybe Brenda and I don't belong here.

 Brenda: I'm staying Brandon, and so are you; it's not like they're chemical
 engineers or something.

   (Matt Harris walks up to the trio.)
 Matt: Look man, I'm sorry; here what do you think of this calculation?

 Brandon: Have you shown the function's analytic in the region?

   (Matt looks around at the Shane, who is standing next to him, and smiles.)
 Matt: Sure, man.

 Brenda: See Brandon, these people aren't all that different from the ones
back
 at home.

   (Later in the party, Brandon is cavalierly using delta-functions, and
making
 all sorts of assumptions with reckless abandon.)

   (That night when the twins arrive home, Mom and Dad are still up.)

 Mom(Christine O'Keefe): Hi, did you have a nice night?

 Brenda: Excellent, evryone was so nice...

 Dad(Alan Carey): What's that working you've got there, Brandon.

 Brandon: Oh just some calculations.

 Dad: Do you mind if I see them?

   (Brandon looks uneasy)
 Brandon: Sure.

   (Dad reads through the work, and a frown comes to his face.)
 Dad: You've been making assumptions, haven't you.
 
 Brandon: Well maybe I have, Yeah maybe I just got tired of following the
rules
 all the time.

 Mom: But Brandon, after what you told us, don't you remember what you said
 about second year physics?

 Brandon: Look, it was hardly that bad. Matt said he'd proved something right
 at the start, of course I know now he hadn't, we just went on from there,
and
 took a few shortcuts, I feel so stupid.

 Dad: Well if you've learnt something from this it hasn't been a total loss.

   (The family hugs and the "Beverly Hills 2.71828" theme comes on.)


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