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Really Terrible Puns Vol 1
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Husband was obtuse. The in-laws were bisecting.
owslachief
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The family counselor in this case was looking for just the right angle.
But all he/she had was a theorem. However, it turned out that the counselor was a proofter.
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This thread has gone off on a tangent but that is perhaps better than just going in circles.
This thread has gone off on a tangent but that is perhaps better than just going in circles.
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I heard that movie icons have their own special currency, and that they use it to pay fines they incur on a movie set.
For example, every time they clear their throat (unless it's in the script), they have to pay a cough fee using their star bucks.
I heard that movie icons have their own special currency, and that they use it to pay fines they incur on a movie set.
For example, every time they clear their throat (unless it's in the script), they have to pay a cough fee using their star bucks.
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And Sarah Lee did not like the music from the jukebox, so she wanted her nickleback.
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I guess I heard the inflation-adjusted version, in which she wanted her quarter back.
I guess I heard the inflation-adjusted version, in which she wanted her quarter back.
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This isn't really a pun, it's a mnemonic. Different species, same genus.
In high school physics, when we were studying electronics, I overheard my teacher muttering to herself under her breath. She was a pleasant and earnest young woman, and so I was shocked to hear what whe was saying:
"Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Goes Willingly."
-- WHAAT? I asked.
"oh," she blushed. "that's a way to remember the color coding on resistors: Black Brown Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Violet Gray White."
Obviously an effective mnemonic given that I can still recall it several decades later!
In one of my college geology classes, a TA alluded to a mnemonic that they used to remember the geological time scale, but he never told us what it was. Any readers here know?
or any other handy mnemonics of a similar nature? Dr. D, any good ones from anatomy class?
This isn't really a pun, it's a mnemonic. Different species, same genus.
In high school physics, when we were studying electronics, I overheard my teacher muttering to herself under her breath. She was a pleasant and earnest young woman, and so I was shocked to hear what whe was saying:
"Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Goes Willingly."
-- WHAAT? I asked.
"oh," she blushed. "that's a way to remember the color coding on resistors: Black Brown Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Violet Gray White."
Obviously an effective mnemonic given that I can still recall it several decades later!
In one of my college geology classes, a TA alluded to a mnemonic that they used to remember the geological time scale, but he never told us what it was. Any readers here know?
or any other handy mnemonics of a similar nature? Dr. D, any good ones from anatomy class?
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owslachief
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Interesting that your teacher seemed to have one thing on her mind (??)
When I was in Navy's ET school, it was "Bad boys race our young girls behind victory garden walls". That was the NAVY, mind you! the outfit that gave our nation the saying "he swore like a sailor".
Interesting that your teacher seemed to have one thing on her mind (??)When I was in Navy's ET school, it was "Bad boys race our young girls behind victory garden walls". That was the NAVY, mind you! the outfit that gave our nation the saying "he swore like a sailor".
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Well, the classic one is from Biology class to remember kingdom, phylum, class, etc...
King Phillip Came Over For Great Sex
Well, the classic one is from Biology class to remember kingdom, phylum, class, etc...
King Phillip Came Over For Great Sex
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That one will be useful too. Thank you!
I'll file'em away.
PS. Five kingdoms now. Added a few since I first learned about Linnaeus. We spent two weeks on taxonomy and we saw so many different inverterbrates preserved inside glass jars....the nematodes and tapeworms left me feeling a bit squeamish. Another time though we fermented grape juice though we didn't taste it.
Several of my high school science teachers had been professional scientists, then "retired" and went into teaching in their late 50s or early 60s as a form of pay it forward. Our geometry teacher was a retired air force captain, our biology teacher at one time had been on staff at Argonne National Labs....we were quite lucky back then.
I think I enjoyed chemistry the most though I retained the least knowledge afterward. That teacher once let us mix rust and aluminum powder and ignite it with a magnesium fuse, to produce aluminum oxide and molten iron. We carefully built a plaster of paris funnel and mold, then ignited the mix inside the funnel: it exploded and sent small drops of molten iron flying all over. fortunately, we just went down the hall to the physics lab and got a few magnets and clean up went pretty quickly.
The best chem story was when he mixed ammonia and iodine (solid iodine, not the stuff in solution), then set out the resulting paste to dry on a screen. The first time he tapped it with a yardstick, it was still a bit moist, and some stuck to the end of the yardstick. Later, he used that yardstick to point out something on the giant periodic table hanging on the wall, and when he tapped it with the tip of the yardstick he splintered the end of the yardstick and blew a small hole in the paper. I'll also remember nitrogen tri-iodide for a long time, without a mnemonic!
That one will be useful too. Thank you!
I'll file'em away.
PS. Five kingdoms now. Added a few since I first learned about Linnaeus. We spent two weeks on taxonomy and we saw so many different inverterbrates preserved inside glass jars....the nematodes and tapeworms left me feeling a bit squeamish. Another time though we fermented grape juice though we didn't taste it.
Several of my high school science teachers had been professional scientists, then "retired" and went into teaching in their late 50s or early 60s as a form of pay it forward. Our geometry teacher was a retired air force captain, our biology teacher at one time had been on staff at Argonne National Labs....we were quite lucky back then.
I think I enjoyed chemistry the most though I retained the least knowledge afterward. That teacher once let us mix rust and aluminum powder and ignite it with a magnesium fuse, to produce aluminum oxide and molten iron. We carefully built a plaster of paris funnel and mold, then ignited the mix inside the funnel: it exploded and sent small drops of molten iron flying all over. fortunately, we just went down the hall to the physics lab and got a few magnets and clean up went pretty quickly.
The best chem story was when he mixed ammonia and iodine (solid iodine, not the stuff in solution), then set out the resulting paste to dry on a screen. The first time he tapped it with a yardstick, it was still a bit moist, and some stuck to the end of the yardstick. Later, he used that yardstick to point out something on the giant periodic table hanging on the wall, and when he tapped it with the tip of the yardstick he splintered the end of the yardstick and blew a small hole in the paper. I'll also remember nitrogen tri-iodide for a long time, without a mnemonic!
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MissThundercat
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Lucky. For 10th grade Biology, I got "Kings Play Chess on Fridays Generally Speaking." Not cool.
owslachief
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I can't think of a single piece of music with this chord progression.
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ah, yes, the lines in the treble clef. or Good Boys Do Fine Always for the bass clef. Well played.
ah, yes, the lines in the treble clef. or Good Boys Do Fine Always for the bass clef. Well played.
Twitch Boy
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My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas: planets in order from the sun (well, until they dropped Pluto.)
"How I need a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics." Number of letters in each word are the digits of pi in order.
My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas: planets in order from the sun (well, until they dropped Pluto.)
"How I need a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics." Number of letters in each word are the digits of pi in order.
MissThundercat
Are the cis okay?
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