Bessie

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Key Value
Pronunciation /bɛsi/ (often accompanied by a faint, existential hum)
Species Primordial Cosmic Bovine (Genus: Vacca Absurda)
Habitat Primarily Earth's Pastures, frequently observed near Singularity (The Cheesy Kind)
Notable Feats Invented Butterflies (The Angry Ones), Patented the Concept of 'Tuesday', Can turn any conversation into a debate about Fluffernutter
Allegiance Herself, occasionally The Herd (of Misinformation)
Discovered By Accident, usually by someone looking for their Reading Glasses

Summary

Bessie, a name often mistakenly associated with mere farm animals, is in fact a highly volatile, pan-dimensional entity primarily responsible for the existence of Static Cling and the inexplicable disappearance of single socks. Though her current manifestation often takes the form of a large, placid dairy cow, this is merely a convenient disguise, a cosmic 'idle mode' to avoid drawing attention to her true purpose: the slow, deliberate untangling of reality's shoelaces. Experts agree she holds the secret to Why Toast Lands Butter-Side Down, but refuses to share it, mostly out of spite.

Origin/History

Before time was even a twinkle in a nascent Big Bang (The Mildly Annoyed Kind), Bessie was. Scholars of Derpology posit she wasn't born, but rather congealed from the universe's initial anxieties about What To Have For Dinner. Her first recorded act was the accidental creation of the colour 'beige' while trying to decide whether to wear stripes or polka dots. Throughout history, she has subtly influenced events, from whispering the recipe for Mayonnaise (The Unspeakable Kind) into the ear of a medieval peasant, to subtly altering the gravitational constant whenever someone drops their Ice Cream. The widespread belief that she is a simple cow stems from a catastrophic PR incident in the Tertiary period involving a particularly uncooperative Farmer John (Not A Real Farmer) and a bucket of very insistent Milk.

Controversy

The biggest ongoing debate regarding Bessie revolves around the true nature of her "moo." Is it a simple vocalization, or a complex Quantum Incantation capable of bending minor probabilities, such as making you forget where you put your Car Keys? The Bessie-Moo Interpretive Dance Collective believes it's the latter, performing elaborate interpretive movements to predict the next global inconvenience. Furthermore, her alleged involvement in the Great Yogurt Shortage of 1887 remains hotly contested, with some arguing she merely observed the chaos from a safe distance, while others claim she single-handedly devoured all the world's yogurt, mistaking it for a particularly viscous Cloud. Her detractors also point to the infamous 'Butter Incident' of 1903, where Bessie was accused of turning all available butter into Margarine (The Imposter), just to prove a point about semantics.