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donutsweeper ([personal profile] donutsweeper) wrote2007-12-22 09:18 pm
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Schrödinger’s Coffee

Title: Schrödinger’s Coffee
Pairing/Warning/Rating:
none, rated G
Word Count: 100
Summary: Jack and Tosh discuss coffee
Author's Note: Learn about Schrödinger's cat here.  Thanks to [profile] smithy161 for fixing the quantum nature of Jack's conundrum.


“Jack?  You’re staring at the coffee machine.  Are you okay?”

“I don’t know who made the coffee this morning, Tosh.”

“Oh, and that’s a problem?”

“Gwen makes dreadful coffee.  And Owen’s... Owen’s coffee is criminal.  I want Ianto’s coffee.”

“Well, maybe Ianto made it.”

“But until I drink it I won’t know for certain.”

“And you’re not trying it... why?”

“Schrödinger’s Coffee.”

“Sorry, what?”

"Well, it's both fantastic coffee and horrific coffee-like crap until I try it.  And I don't want risk drinking coffee-like crap.”

“I wouldn’t have guessed you were a student of quantum theory.”

“Not quantum theory, just coffee.”
  

[identity profile] travels-in-time.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 03:45 am (UTC)(link)
You are BRILLIANT.

I want a "Quantum Coffee" icon!

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
I still love this icon of yours. *g*

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[identity profile] ayankha.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
roflmao!!!!!!! i read the title and immediately started laughing.... this is the best! and i don't even like coffee :p

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 04:30 am (UTC)(link)
great, great icon!!! And I'm glad you liked the title!

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[identity profile] badwolf36.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 05:09 am (UTC)(link)
Brilliant! I was laughing a lot. Thanks for sharing!

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 05:11 am (UTC)(link)
Oh YAY! glad you liked it!

[identity profile] k-haldane.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 05:35 am (UTC)(link)
As long as I don't click on the link, it might be a great drabble or it might not.

When I click on the link, the uncertainty collapses. Unless I'm on Windows 98, in which case the computer collapses instead. : )

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
oh, poor computer! It's just trying to keep you on your toes!

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[identity profile] phoenix64.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 07:11 am (UTC)(link)
ZOMG this is fantastic! ::tackles you::

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)
I got a ZOMG!!! YAY!!!

[identity profile] jadesfire2808.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 08:04 am (UTC)(link)
*giggle* Jack's very sensible not to risk his tastebuds that way.

Much enjoyed :)

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 02:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Glad you liked it!

[identity profile] mad-jaks.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 08:21 am (UTC)(link)
Totally inspired and *spot on*

I'm like that with my kids and tea. Two of them make excellent tea, one of them makes a vaguely tealike substance, one of them - I swear - scoops the cup into the dishwater and adds milk :D

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 02:22 pm (UTC)(link)
vaguely tea-like (or coffee-like) substances can be very scary

[identity profile] the-dark-side.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 08:28 am (UTC)(link)
ok, I'm sitting here in my parents' living room cracking up, but I know none of them would understand even if I try to explain why.

there are really no words for how brilliant this is. the really funny part is that I'm just now reading one of the TORCHWOOD books in which Jack uses the Heisenberg uncertainty principal to explain something to Gwen. hilarious.

p.s.

I'm just adding you to my friends list, if that's ok. you fic just rocks that much.

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't read any of the TW books yet (stupid America and them not being at libraries), but that's too funny that Jack talks about Heisenberg's principal of uncertainty in one! And I'm happy to have you friend me.

[identity profile] pointytilly.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 09:22 am (UTC)(link)
This made me snicker, and it even has the umlauts in Schrödinger's. Awesome :D.

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 02:24 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll will not admit to how long it took to figure out how to put the umlauts there! :) Glad you liked it!

[identity profile] admiratio.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 02:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I really enjoyed this - too short for my liking, but I will take what I can get. Image

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
awww, you're coffee drinker is cute! I tend to write a lot of drabbles about coffee
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[personal profile] unfeathered 2007-12-23 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Heee! Poor Jack really is obsessed with his coffee, isn't he? Maybe he should page Ianto?

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
either Jack is obsessed with coffee or I am....

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[identity profile] darthhellokitty.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay Schrodinger! XD XD XD

Really, Jack should've brought Tosh some coffee and watched her reaction. XD XD XD

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 05:52 pm (UTC)(link)
oooh, that would have worked, Tosh could have been Jack's lab rat

[identity profile] hellenebright.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Awesome use of quantum theory :)

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)
thank you!

[identity profile] love-jackianto.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Quantum theory-coffee *giggles* New icon here I come :D

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
can't go wrong with quantum coffee! *g*

[identity profile] adafrog.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 04:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Love it!

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)
thanks!

[identity profile] wickedplotbunny.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 04:28 pm (UTC)(link)
Seems we're both stuck in the Quantum mood at the mo, DS :)

Lovely little ficlet. I snerked.

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay for snerking! :)

[identity profile] smithy161.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)
*Grins* awesome!

Although, it isn't the chance it'll be coffee or coffee-like... it actually is in both states at once. But. I'll shut up now.

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
True, but that was too hard to try to explain in the drabble. Will you forgive an uncaffeinated Jack this one mistake?

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[identity profile] secbeth.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG!! that's hiliarous!!

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 07:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Glad you liked it!

[identity profile] estelofimladris.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
This is brilliant. I am so utterly picky that I hardly have been reading fics of late. Not only did your title grab me and say "Oh! Read this one!" but also, I was not at all disappointed. Freaking hilarious.

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay! I'm so glad you liked it! :)
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[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 10:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank you!

[identity profile] riftugee.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 10:44 pm (UTC)(link)
automatic friendage for anyone who writes good quantum physics fics (say that 5 times fast, or once drunk)!

brilliant stuff, thanks so much for posting.

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 10:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm just glad so many people understood the reference! Hooray for Schrödinger!!! Great icon btw!

[identity profile] aeron-lanart.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Schrödinger’s Coffee

*snorfle* I love this, even if I don't like coffee! Nothing sensible to say about quantum anything, but I do have a need to say Oh Boy! for some reason *g*.

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-12-23 11:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe I should have written Schrödinger's donut instead- vanilla creme or custard filling? *g*

[identity profile] marvola.livejournal.com 2007-12-24 12:56 am (UTC)(link)
Absolutely delightful!!!

And kinda how I feel about Season 2 of Torchwood... I'm really looking forward to it, but am simultaneously dreading it!!

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-12-24 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
I know what you mean about S2 of torchwood, what if it doesn't live up to our hopes? Glad you liked the drabble!

[identity profile] snufflesdbear.livejournal.com 2007-12-24 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
That was fantastic! I even read it out loud to my husband, and he cackled. Trust me, a cackle from him is rare, indeed. He says "That is Jack!"

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-12-24 01:34 am (UTC)(link)
I'm so glad you and your husband enjoyed it. And your icon is adorable!

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2007-12-24 03:04 pm (UTC)(link)
glad you liked it! :)

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