Another tale from a universe far far away

There was this famous professor and he had a lot of money from the king and so he sent away for some other wonderful professors that happened to be married to each other and who always wore black and spoke with funny accents like Marlene Dietrich. They might have smoked cigarettes as well, but of course not in public because they were famous dentistry professors. How does one become famous dentistry professors, you might ask. Well, one publishes, writes scholarly papers, does television and movie things, gives interviews and acts at all times like they are the state of the art. Our famous professor got them to come because he promised them a state of the art dentistry laboratory to hold their state of the art classes in. And he hired a state of the art dentistry  laboratory builder to build the state of the art dentistry laboratory. How does one become a state of the art dentistry laboratory builder, one might wonder? One doesn't know because the state of the art dentistry  laboratory builder just showed up one day and told everyone that he was one. He might have even been an acquaintance of the famous professors that wore black and might have smoked cigarettes, but of course not in public. After a year, the laboratory wasn't done, and everyone wanted to know why, so the king sent our guy who bought things to go look at the laboratory. It really looked like the state of the art, all stainless steel with monitors that were supposed to rise magically out of the tabletops and were wired to a camera pointing at a dentist's chair so that the entire class could see in one mouth all at the same time. And built-in laptops with stainless steel tops and of course wireless mouses. Sadly, none of this worked. Some of what had been imagined by state of the art dentistry laboratory builder only existed in a foreign country where everyone spoke with funny accents like Marlene Dietrich and were not licensed or certified by our king and also had funny looking electrical plugs. Some of the other things that our state of the art dentistry laboratory builder had imagined didn't exist at all, like laptops with stainless steel tops. So our guy  who bought things called people that he knew and didn't know and figured it out. There was a great guy who brought his 12 year-old-son along to help because school was out that day and the son helped by pulling wires out all over the laboratory and discovering that none of the wires were connected to anything. There was a computer guy that talked with a funny accent like David Carradine who helped figure out how to fake a laptop with a stainless steel top. Our guy who bought things, who wasn't really supposed to giving anybody his opinion, spent several months helping the famous professors. Our guy that bought things got to do what he did best, he bought things, showed them to the famous professors, then returned them and then bought other things to show to the famous professors. Eventually, the famous professors ran out of things that would not work, so our guy who bought things, bought things that worked. So, finally, the state of the art dentistry laboratory was finished and all the famous professors were very happy, except that they didn't have their stainless steel mouses, but they are still full of hope that one day they will have what they want.