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On the Lighter Side => That CAN'T be true! => Topic started by: JimBob on 02/05/2007 21:31:47

Title: Insane Science Deffinitions
Post by: JimBob on 02/05/2007 21:31:47
How about all those "in-jokes" that run around science labs, job-sites and schools? Think we could fill a thread with them?

A female friend gave me this one:


Menopause

The times in the day when either a single or a group of small fish take a cigarette break.
Title: Insane Science Deffinitions
Post by: neilep on 02/05/2007 22:41:57
Chloro-form

A drug that knocks you out but only when you're completing documents !

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Post by: neilep on 03/05/2007 01:49:45
Liebig condenser

A place where rotund german lovers go for compression !
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Post by: neilep on 03/05/2007 01:50:08
I'm trying...at least I'm having a  go !!
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Post by: ukmicky on 03/05/2007 23:44:40
Rick o'shea

An Irishman who enjoys bouncing off walls
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Post by: DoctorBeaver on 04/05/2007 13:14:01
Paddy O'Doors - An Irishman you see right through into your garden  [:D]
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Post by: DoctorBeaver on 04/05/2007 13:14:43
Archery - Lying about giving a prostitute £200 at Kings Cross station
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Post by: DoctorBeaver on 04/05/2007 13:16:30
Soluble - Exchanged an Aberdeen Angus for money.
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Post by: DoctorBeaver on 04/05/2007 13:17:22
One for Chris...

Virology - steering your vehicle wildly from side to side.  [:D]
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Post by: JimBob on 04/05/2007 20:34:09
Hepatic portal system - holes through which Irish come through to this country, see a friend and yell "hey, Patty!"
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Post by: chimera on 05/05/2007 23:48:14
Seagull Manager
Seagull managers fly in, make a lot of noise, dump on everyone, then fly out.
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Post by: JimBob on 06/05/2007 02:51:51
Coprolite - A very light-weight Bobbie (policeman to we Americans)

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Post by: science_guy on 01/06/2007 15:47:43
illegal
A sick bird
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Post by: DoctorBeaver on 01/06/2007 23:12:41
Physics - hiccups after drinking something fizzy
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Post by: JimBob on 01/06/2007 23:41:22
cosmology

Getting to know a guy named Cosmo.
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Post by: DoctorBeaver on 02/06/2007 07:42:06
Taxonomy - Telling the taxman exactly what kind of ******* you think he is

homogeneous - a very intelligent man

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Post by: science_guy on 04/06/2007 16:03:56
homogeneous - a very intelligent gay man



[;)]
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Post by: DoctorBeaver on 04/06/2007 16:30:05
I resisted saying that as I didn't consider it PC  [:o)]
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Post by: dentstudent on 05/06/2007 13:06:36
From Germany:

gesellschaft - antelope artificial insemination
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Post by: dentstudent on 05/06/2007 13:08:01
polyunsaturates - a parrot with a towel
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Post by: DoctorBeaver on 05/06/2007 17:28:27
polyunsaturates - a parrot with a towel

CLASS!
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Post by: JimBob on 04/07/2007 17:00:44
Archimedes

Found mostly in the Caspian Sea, these huge artifacts are large wooden boats that carried the Medes in the 6th century BC.
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Post by: DoctorBeaver on 04/07/2007 18:09:30
PENTAGON - Home for the terminally insane

Valence (Frankie) - Singer with The Four Seasons

Pascal - A fruity sweet made by Rowntree

Farad - Ancient Egyptian ruler

Botany - Sitting on someone's lap
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Post by: JimBob on 04/07/2007 20:35:19
Elemental Hassium

The essence of the purified Hashish
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Post by: dentstudent on 05/07/2007 15:44:28
FREUDIAN SLIP - your mother's victorian undergarment
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Post by: DoctorBeaver on 05/07/2007 16:11:38
Quantum entanglement - getting your knickers in a twist. But only if you look at them.
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Post by: JimBob on 06/07/2007 01:08:43
Sargassum - flatulence from cows in the German state on the French border
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Post by: dentstudent on 06/07/2007 09:22:56
Catalytic converter

What should be fitted to the above
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Post by: DoctorBeaver on 06/07/2007 17:32:27
Catalytic converter

What should be fitted to the above

I thought it had something to do with setting light to cats  [???]
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Post by: JimBob on 06/07/2007 23:23:03
Catalytic converter

What should be fitted to the above
I thought it had something to do with setting light to cats  [???]



Of Course it should, my good doctor. But what can you do with someone who speaks German fluently??

Title: Insane Science Deffinitions
Post by: DoctorBeaver on 07/07/2007 00:05:02
Catalytic converter

What should be fitted to the above
I thought it had something to do with setting light to cats  [???]



Of Course it should, my good doctor. But what can you do with someone who speaks German fluently??



That would depend on what she looked like (https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fbestsmileys.com%2Fkissing2%2F7.gif&hash=6da8a5389f63a68a23bafbfb55186dec)
Title: Insane Science Deffinitions
Post by: Karen W. on 07/07/2007 00:40:28
LOL LOL!!
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Post by: JimBob on 07/07/2007 12:20:36
Catalytic converter

What should be fitted to the above
I thought it had something to do with setting light to cats  [???]



Of Course it should, my good doctor. But what can you do with someone who speaks German fluently??



That would depend on what she looked like (https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fbestsmileys.com%2Fkissing2%2F7.gif&hash=6da8a5389f63a68a23bafbfb55186dec)

AH yes, true to your moniker. However, assuming his photo to be a fair and accurate representation of his personal proclivity, I am assuming dentstudent is male.

Now, sir, would you care to rephrase?

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Post by: Karen W. on 07/07/2007 12:32:39
LOL LOL!
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Post by: DoctorBeaver on 07/07/2007 13:20:38
JimBob - Your question was "But what can you do with someone who speaks German fluently??". Where in that sentence is there a reference to Stuart?

Your use of the word "someone" infers a non-specific person & my reply was based on that inference.
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Post by: JimBob on 07/07/2007 14:28:55
Stu has posted about his German travels posted with a sucking pig and the Alps - from what I could gather he was in Germany and Austria at the time. The most telling point is that his profile lists Germany as his place of residence. So .......

Using the "someone" was a rhetorical device.

 [:o)] [:o)] [:o)] [:o)] [:o)] [:o)] [:o)] [:o)] [:o)] [:o)] [:o)] [:o)]
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Post by: JimBob on 07/07/2007 15:55:29
Krebs Cycle - a small bicycle ridden by seafood
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Post by: DoctorBeaver on 07/07/2007 16:48:00
Stu has posted about his German travels posted with a sucking pig and the Alps - from what I could gather he was in Germany and Austria at the time. The most telling point is that his profile lists Germany as his place of residence. So .......

Using the "someone" was a rhetorical device.

 [:o)] [:o)] [:o)] [:o)] [:o)] [:o)] [:o)] [:o)] [:o)] [:o)] [:o)] [:o)]

Picky picky (https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fbestsmileys.com%2Frude%2F2.gif&hash=aa80c6eba39575f80f7475126fd38a82)
Title: Insane Science Deffinitions
Post by: JimBob on 07/07/2007 20:49:57
Just what I expected, a mature response.


If you need that explained, it is:

IRONY

i-ro-ny (ie'ruh nee, ie'uhr-)  n. pl. <-nies>
                  1.  the use of words to convey a meaning that
                       is the opposite of its literal meaning.
                  2.  SOCRATIC IRONY.
                  3.  DRAMATIC IRONY.
                  4.  an outcome of events contrary to what
                       was, or might have been, expected.
                  5.  the incongruity of this.
                  6.  an objectively sardonic style of speech
                       or writing.
                  7.  an objectively or humorously sardonic
                       utterance, disposition, quality, etc.
             [1495-1505; (< MF ironie) < L ironia < Gk eironeía
             feigned ignorance, false modesty = eíron one who
             hides his or her true knowledge or capabilities +
             -eia - Y 3]
Title: Insane Science Deffinitions
Post by: DoctorBeaver on 07/07/2007 21:05:14
I think "sarcasm" is a more appropriate word than "irony"
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Post by: JimBob on 08/07/2007 02:58:37
(https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fbestsmileys.com%2Flicking%2F1.gif&hash=85cef2aa441c48e9467830070699eea6)
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Post by: Karen W. on 08/07/2007 11:22:11
HEE HEE!
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Post by: i am bored on 08/07/2007 20:34:07
element: a vehicle made by Honda in a weird box shape
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Post by: Karen W. on 09/07/2007 07:30:53
I like the element!
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Post by: dentstudent on 09/07/2007 07:33:41
anthracite
The residue of a heavy metal gig
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Post by: DoctorBeaver on 09/07/2007 08:34:43
Hippocampus:-

1) where large, fat water mammals spend the night at rock festivals.
2) where large, fat water mammals study for a degree.
3) large, fat water mammals acting gay.
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Post by: dentstudent on 09/07/2007 09:01:06
Paleontology
The study of something completely different
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Post by: dentstudent on 09/07/2007 13:39:37
proctology
Digitising the future, de-digitising your parsed
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Post by: dentstudent on 09/07/2007 13:42:58
declevity

Breast reduction
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Post by: dentstudent on 09/07/2007 14:53:38
disulfide bond

Another Welsh 007......
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Post by: i am bored on 09/07/2007 19:06:17
castration: a males wrost nightmare
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Post by: DoctorBeaver on 09/07/2007 19:09:17
disulfide bond

Another Welsh 007......

(https://www.thenakedscientists.com/forum/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fbestsmileys.com%2Flol%2F1.gif&hash=d8e6686452e290c988dbac6c3e01d75a)
Title: Insane Science Deffinitions
Post by: JimBob on 10/07/2007 02:34:31
nuclear (as pronounced by "W.")- A new king