and the jólasveinar march on and on across the floor...
Giljagaur came this morning.
He likes to hide in the folds in the landscape, crawling towards your barn, where he will sneak up to the cows in the morning and skim the significance off your double blinded data set, leaving but a suggestion of a hint of the Higgs Particle on the pail of photons.
No cream for theorists on this morning.
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