Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling for May 17, 2008

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Tom the Dancing Bug by Ruben Bolling The Adventures of Brain In A Beaker Woman: ANYway! I've got to get up early tomorrow. Man: WAIT! Stay! I've got wine coolers in the fridge! Woman: Thanks, but I've really got to... Man: WANNA SEE MY BRAIN IN A BEAKER?! Woman: Your... Man: It's a brain, electronically stimulated by a computer to believe it's in its own reality! Woman: Wow. Man: The computer fakes its sensory inputs to make it think it's attached to a body! Woman: And the computer simulates an entire virtual reality for it? Man: Totally! Woman: Can we mess with it? Man: Well, it's complicated. Woman: Oh, I am so plugging in my iPhone! Man: That's NOT a good idea, Nat! Nat: This is wild! It LIKES this. Man: Um, you really shouldn't... Nat: Listen, could you go get me that wine cooler? Man: Oh, OK. Nat: ...and you could close the door on your way out. SO, next morning... Woman: You disappear for hours, then show up with a John Mayer CD, and phone numbers printed on your hands! How can you say you're not fooling around?! Man: I swear, I don't know WHAT happened!