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DreamGypsy

(2,252 posts)
Wed Jan 9, 2013, 01:57 PM Jan 2013

Bad, Science Jokes. Bad!

From http://www.buzzfeed.com/babymantis/20-more-spectacularly-nerdy-science-jokes-1opu

Don't be ashamed, I had to do some search to understand some of therm. A sample of the worst:

1. Bad pick up lines for geologists.


3. Gregor Mendel approves this pun:



Pretty good:

12. Some jokes are all about the timing.




And my personal favorite:

15. The rest of you are missing the context.


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Bad, Science Jokes. Bad! (Original Post) DreamGypsy Jan 2013 OP
I didn't know there was a chemical formular for Duer 157099 Jan 2013 #1
I think the symbol is for ... DreamGypsy Jan 2013 #2
I think screwed is included intaglio Jan 2013 #3
I hate to be pedantic... DreamGypsy Jan 2013 #9
LOL! intaglio Jan 2013 #12
i really liked qazplm Jan 2013 #4
Whatever happened to Abstruse Goose anyway? pokerfan Jan 2013 #5
My high-school Chem teacher once put a problem on a test.... lastlib Jan 2013 #6
Hmmm. So you were in high school in 1958... DreamGypsy Jan 2013 #7
no, I think the teacher was..... lastlib Jan 2013 #10
Okay, as a chemist TxDemChem Jan 2013 #8
The water molecule one cracked me up! Odin2005 Jan 2013 #11
For more good stuff, go to the link... lastlib Jan 2013 #13
I don't care for p-chloro-ethylene, BadgerKid Jan 2013 #14
Organic chemistry in a single pic sakabatou Jan 2013 #15

DreamGypsy

(2,252 posts)
2. I think the symbol is for ...
Wed Jan 9, 2013, 02:06 PM
Jan 2013

a potential ... a screwing potential ... like potential density, potential energy, etc.

But I might be wrong

DreamGypsy

(2,252 posts)
9. I hate to be pedantic...
Wed Jan 9, 2013, 10:08 PM
Jan 2013

...(well, that's not true, I thoroughly enjoy being pedantic)...but screwed is past tense. (Mg,Fe)7Si8O22(OH)2 is definitely future tense.

I looked around for some possible past tense minerals, but to no avail. Seems like the best hope might be a calcium, mendelevium, lanthanum, sulfur compound that forms a rocky solid... comdlasnite or something like that.

Maybe if some new transuranium elements are discovered and get appropriate symbols, then the spelling could be improved.

lastlib

(23,213 posts)
6. My high-school Chem teacher once put a problem on a test....
Wed Jan 9, 2013, 08:51 PM
Jan 2013

that started off with a flouride compound, a propyl compound, four human stick figures, and an ether compound--and we had to identify it.

The correct answer: A "flouride-propyl people ether"!

DreamGypsy

(2,252 posts)
7. Hmmm. So you were in high school in 1958...
Wed Jan 9, 2013, 09:40 PM
Jan 2013

and your chem teacher's name was Sheb Woolly. #1

I remember this much without having to look up the lyrics.

He came down to earth and he lit in a tree.
I said "Mr. Purple People Eater, don't eat me."
He looked down and said in a voice so rough,
"I wouldn't eat you 'cause you're too tough."

He was a ....


It's scary what is stuffed into the dark corners of our brains.

lastlib

(23,213 posts)
10. no, I think the teacher was.....
Wed Jan 9, 2013, 10:34 PM
Jan 2013

I was about fifteen years later. But I'd heard the song, so the problem was a real groaner.

TxDemChem

(1,918 posts)
8. Okay, as a chemist
Wed Jan 9, 2013, 09:58 PM
Jan 2013

I have loads of these.

I blew up my experiment...oxidants happen

How often do I like chemistry jokes...periodically

And similarly: chemists do it on the table...periodically

lastlib

(23,213 posts)
13. For more good stuff, go to the link...
Thu Jan 10, 2013, 10:43 AM
Jan 2013

...and drill into the 21 t-shirts that shouldn't come in kids' sizes--HYSTERICAL!! (well, maybe not as funny as "Resistance isn't futile....&quot

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