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Related: About this forumBad, 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.
Duer 157099
(17,742 posts)screwed! That's good to know!
DreamGypsy
(2,252 posts)a potential ... a screwing potential ... like potential density, potential energy, etc.
But I might be wrong
intaglio
(8,170 posts)in the formula (Mg,Fe)7Si8O22(OH)2
DreamGypsy
(2,252 posts)...(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.
qazplm
(3,626 posts)the Schrodinger's Cat one!
pokerfan
(27,677 posts)I miss it.
lastlib
(23,213 posts)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)and your chem teacher's name was Sheb Woolly. #1
I remember this much without having to look up the lyrics.
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)I was about fifteen years later. But I'd heard the song, so the problem was a real groaner.
TxDemChem
(1,918 posts)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
Odin2005
(53,521 posts)lastlib
(23,213 posts)...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...."
BadgerKid
(4,551 posts)and I don't like glycol ether.
(Ref: The Big Bang Theory)