After my call for puns, I got some really bad ones, but I think I may have found the worst pun ever, and its a science pun too (via
toothpastefordinner.com
Ouch!
More like this
I'll get back to substantive posting in a bit, but as the semester wraps up, I wanted to ask for your help. Over the years, punning has become a more and more integral part of our lab meetings. It's reached the point, in fact, that our P.I.
Anthony Grayling, who does a really interesting review column in the Barnes and Noble Review, entitled "A Thinking Read", has a piece on Jerry Coyne's book Why Evolution is True.
Toxoplasma must be one of the most mind-boggling (oh! sweet pun!) parasite. Maggie Wittlin has a fascinating report about this parasite at Seed Magazine.
In a recent post, before we officially had Tropical Storm Beryl, I wrote that I could "hardly Beryl the suspense." Alas, this pun turns on "Beryl" being pronounced like "barrel." But now comes NHC forecaster Stacy Stewart
oh...
...dear
I've just read the comments to the original post... can't wait for the rant about the cognitive linguists.
I think it's only appropriate to post these lyrics here :-D
- John Otway, "Bunsen burner"
Haha, that's a good one! Though marred by the fact that no archaeologist these days tries to "date peoples". We may discuss the dates of an archaeological culture, but we no longer believe that such a culture equals a "people". In fact, we pretty much do not believe that any "peoples" exist at all, now or in the past.
I'd hope to at least contend for that title
Tectonic Plate
No I in Team
HA HA... he heheheee.
That's actually kind of funny!
I didn't really get it :-P :-P