Universe May Be Too Queer to Grasp

This sort of story brings out the adolescent in me.

Scientist Professor Richard Dawkins has opened a global conference of big thinkers warning that our Universe may be just "too queer" to understand.

Here's what happens to me, in the order of its occurance:

Giggle. "He said 'queer.'"
I wonder how many people will read past the headline, and how many of those people who don't will think this is a story about the universe being more gay than we originally thought.
I wonder if I should use the word gay. Maybe people will think the universe is too happy.
Maybe the universe is too happy.
Happy people/things are, after all, the hardest people/things to understand, especially for "realists" and special agents.
Does queer mean happy?
Of course the universe is too queer to understand, mate. But so is Windows. What of it?
Is Windows happy?
Is Mr. Gates happy?
He bloody well better be, with all that master-of-the-universe pocket change he's got.
Remember when you could always tell a happy person because they wore an ear-ring or a bandanna in a certain pocket (don't ask me, I don't know what the happy codes were), or they were hairdressers? Those were the good old days, weren't they? Anymore you have to have a conversation with a happy person before you find out they are happy. And by then it's too freaking late.
To back out (or front out) of a really happy conversation is nearly impossible. Just wait it out. Even ridiculous texts full of useless lists (like this one) have to end some time.
And they will.
Right now

Oh. And hey. Nice powerbook, dude.