10/29/08 PHD comic: 'Overheard at the Halloween Party'

[Greg Bernhardt]

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[Borek]

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[Moonbear]

I like the fudge factor one. :biggrin:

[Manchot]

I don't get the last one.

[sludtke42]

The third seems to interpret to wham bam thank you mam, but clearly there is more to it. No idea what the symbols are...

[Moonbear]

No idea what the symbols are...
It's not too funny. It's the sort of diagram used to illustrate things like protein-receptor or enzyme-active site complexes in biology, but it's a rather outdated model, and since I don't think it represents any real molecules, it's not that clever (it would have been funnier if it was a real complex that spelled something humorous). There are more humorous things in biology, like the enzyme JAK...it stands for "Just Another Kinase". :biggrin: