Great one-liners from PF members

[Vanadium 50]

Decisions made by emotional inclinations can be risky or just dumb.

 

[Haborix]

Exactly. How many times have you grabbed the vanilla ice cream only to beat yourself up later knowing you should have gotten chocolate?

 

[PeterDonis]

How many times have you grabbed the vanilla ice cream only to beat yourself up later knowing you should have gotten chocolate?

I solve this problem by not liking chocolate ice cream.

 

[topsquark]

Agreed. IMHO, (French) vanilla is the only real flavor of ice cream!

-Dan

 

[Vanadium 50]

Emack and Bolio's "Chocolate Moose" ice cream is excellent. But their "Vanilla Bean Speck" is outstanding.

 

[Haborix]

Well, if we are going to be picky, I’d almost always take butter pecan over either vanilla or chocolate.

 

[Tom.G]

By @Baluncore in Engineering and Computer Sci Homework Help

Be productive, play LTspice simulation of circuits, not video games.

 

[phinds]

Well, if we are going to be picky, I’d almost always take butter pecan over either vanilla or chocolate.

I would agree w/ you about that but then we'd both be wrong.

 

[berkeman]

Nice metaphor by V50 when giving advice in the Academic Advising forum to a user who is considering switching majors into a more narrow specialty...

If you shoot for such a narrow target, what happens if you miss?

 

[phinds]

Well worth keeping in mind, I think:

The fact that quantum systems behave highly non-classically in some cases does not mean they do so in all cases.

 

[berkeman]

All I can say is that you had to be there...

But officer....I was only going 0.577c!

 

[Bystander]

If someone comes on and tries to sell us a cold fusion water heater, then it's off to "banned camp."

 

[DrGreg]

Also, when people ask for clarification please just clarify without the guessing games. We are physicists not psychics.

(My emphasis.)

I checked the archives. Dale has used this phrase a few times before, but it's apt.

 

[phinds]

Paraphrasing Arthur C. Clarke:

sufficiently advanced cluelessness is indistinguishable from trolling.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Can you please read your post and agree that telepathy is required to make sense of it ?

 

[BvU]

And I didn't even get the message across ! :

What do you mean?

$\$

 

[Bystander]

But this seems like it's kind of bifurcating bunnies at this point.

Love it!

 

[pinball1970]

Vanadium again

"Numerology is not science. And approximate numerology is not even numerology"

 

[PhDeezNutz]

I think this is a really good point.

You know those posts, where the student is asking, 'but why is the work mgh?' -- I always think, "carry shingles up to the roofers for a week and then get back to me."

In a thread about teaching basic STEM concepts. Poster @Dr Transport mentioned that students can’t understand basic concepts because they lack hands on experience. I think manual labor could definitely help in cultivating physics intuition.

 

[BillTre]

V50 strikes again:

"Evolution works on the four F's - fight, flight, feeding and reproduction."

 

[Vanadium 50]

And to think I wasn't even a candidate for the humor award...or the biology award!

Sadly, I can only take credit for remembering it, not for coining it.

 

[BillTre]

And to think I wasn't even a candidate for the humor award...or the biology award!

I guess the joke's on you!

 

[berkeman]

From a thread in the Relativity forum where a user is asking for people's opinions of what happens to an object as it falls into a Black Hole...

Mathematics is not opinion. "Chunky peanut butter is better than smooth peanut butter" is an opinion.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Technically not a one-liner since I used a period. think a semicolon or even a full colon would be better?

 

[jbriggs444]

Technically not a one-liner since I used a period. think a semicolon or even a full colon would be better?

Two sentences. But only one line. On my screen anyway.

 

[berkeman]

Technically not a one-liner since I used a period. think a semicolon or even a full colon would be better?

A semicolon works of course. But we've been taking a bit of artistic license in this thread for a while now. After all, your quote did technically fit on one line...

(but that's just my opinion...)

 

[BillTre]

Looks like this is becoming the Vanadium 50 quotes thread.

 

[PhDeezNutz]

Looks like this is becoming the Vanadium 50 quotes thread.

You’re not wrong. He is clever and funny.

 

[berkeman]

Looks like this is becoming the Vanadium 50 quotes thread.

Okay, let's step it up people! We got this!

 

[BillTre]

Okay, let's step it up people! We got this!

Say something clever.

 

[berkeman]

Say something clever.

Hey, that all fit on one line, right?

 

[DrClaude]

Say something clever.

Something clever.

 

[Frabjous]

Maybe it's time to leave the realm of wordy speculations and do some math

 

[pinball1970]

And to think I wasn't even a candidate for the humor award...or the biology award!

Sadly, I can only take credit for remembering it, not for coining it.

And I was ..even though I don't think anyone has cited a one liner from me in 583 posts.
I'll check and feedback.

 

[pinball1970]

Still one of my favourites from Bill

robins thomas said:
What is benefits of STEM Learning Education for kids?

@BillTre. 'So they can learn STEM stuff.'

 

[Frabjous]

Here you go.

even though I don't think anyone has cited a one liner from me in 583 posts.

 

[PeroK]

And I was ..even though I don't think anyone has cited a one liner from me in 583 posts.
I'll check and feedback.

I find it hard to believe that in nearly 2500 posts you haven't said anything noteworthy!

 

[pinball1970]

I find it hard to believe that in nearly 2500 posts you haven't said anything noteworthy!

I know in my heart that I am funny.

 

[phinds]

Ha. I had forgotten that guy. He was hilariously un-funny.

 

[pinball1970]

Here you go.

No sympathy quotes please, that is salt in the wound.

 

[pinball1970]

Ha. I had forgotten that guy. He was hilariously un-funny.

Wow he died 2006. Great parts in the Godfather, City Slickers, Harry met Sally and others. I'll leave it there, off topic and all.
Bruno Kirby. Brilliant.
EDIT. Spinal tap cab driver too.

 

[Bystander]

Waffling is not bravery.

 

[berkeman]

From a thread where a user is asking about calculating the airflow needed to levitate a small ball...

A physicist, capable of solving the problem without experiment, will cost you several hair-driers or blowers per hour.

 

[gmax137]

[... geometrized units are ...] convenient for doing general relativity but less convenient for buying bacon ...

 

[Dale]

At the time I literally couldn’t think of any other product that you buy by weight

 

[Vanadium 50]

At the time I literally couldn’t think of any other product that you buy by weight

Breakfast cereal.

"Products are sold by weight, not volume. Some settling may occur."

 

[gmax137]

I'll always settle for bacon .

 

[berkeman]

At the time I literally couldn’t think of any other product that you buy by weight

Hey, waidaminute, why don't supermarkets have these anymore?

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-b...roduce-scale-at-a-grocery-store-17504026.html

 

[BillTre]

Some places do.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Or this?