Anyone good with puns/jokes? I need some suggestions...

[cyberswede]

We're having a science meeting & we're giving out light-up yo-yos as swag.

I'd like to find a funny, brief blurb to print on the yo-yos that would have something to do with science (a yo-yo pun, or a light pun, since they're light-up yo-yos). The participants will be mostly biomedical researchers with PhDs (as opposed to K-12 students).

I thought I'd pull a few strings and ask you all in the Lounge.

[pinboy3niner]

1. One idea

Google terms for yo-yo tricks (i.e. 'Walk the Dog') and see if you can do a play-on-words on those.

[Jenoch]

2. If you are looking for laughs

I would put this web address on the yo-yos.

http://kstrass.com/

[Enrique]

3. can you do it with physicists instead of biomedical people?

i was thinking "string theory"

[pinboy3niner]

4. Heh!

Good thinking!

[Paulie]

5. Why did the robot cross the road?

It was welded to the chicken.

Wait... Replace robot with "modality". That should do it.

[pinboy3niner]

6. Obviousy you must be a real hit at parties

[Paulie]

7. You mean I get hit

With cream pies and pretzels.

[pinboy3niner]

10. Occupational hazard, right?

[Paulie]

11. Yep a normal day in IT

[TexasBushwhacker]

8. How about a play on Isaac Newton

What goes down, must come up!

[antiquie]

9. Do not look into laser with remaining good eye.

[underpants]

12. Ma

As in Yo Yo Ma

Or Vey! Upside down - yo upside down is Oy

[ConcernedCanuk]

15. Your username and the topic of this thread reminded me of a "skill" with yo-yos

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One of them was where you got the yo-yo "sleeping" at the bottom of its travel while still spinning,

then flip it up behind you between your legs and make it grab and hang on to the back of your pants . . .

I got a few smacks in the nuts while learning that one - much to the enjoyment of my "teachers".

They KNEW what was gonna happen . . .



CC

[rurallib]

13. yo-yos are lit with the bio-luminescence of 1,000 fireflies.

replacement parts will be available in June.

- These are belly buttons from squid harvested off Fukishima.

- When lite is on NSA is recording.

- Caution: Mentos and Diet Coke under pressure - do not open

- We got a deal on some old radium watch dials

maybe more later.

[kentauros]

14. You could also put some small print around the edge reading:

"Manufactured by John Bigboote of Yoyodyne Industries"

or

"The only joy is the joy of duty. Work... work... work."

[whistler162]

16. Aren't puns a TOS violation?

they should be.

[Orrex]

22. Not while I have breath in my lungs, dammit.

[siligut]

17. I don't know how much you want to write

But "biomedical researchers with PhDs" made me think of the physicists I've known and how-to instructions printed on the Yo Yo would be an inside joke.

[Duer 157099]

18. I got ya

Something like "Remind you of your postdoc days?" or "To commemorate how your advisor treated you..." or something along those lines.

"Research: The Ultimate Yo-Yo"

They will all get it.

[red dog 1]

19. What do yo-yos and life have in common?

They have their ups and downs.

[red dog 1]

20. What's the fastest way to determine the sex of a chromosome?

Pull down it's genes.

[red dog 1]

21. At the National Institutes of Health, (NIH),..

....there's a sign on the door of a microbiology lab that reads:
"STAPH ONLY"