Thread Killer Champions: Franzbear & Moonbear

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The discussion revolves around the humorous concept of "thread killers" on a forum, where participants analyze who tends to end conversations with their posts. The top offenders identified include franznietzsche, Moonbear, and tribdog, with a playful tone suggesting a competition for the title of "thread killer." Participants debate the validity of counting last posts as a measure of thread-killing ability, arguing that it should be adjusted based on the total number of posts each user has made. The conversation shifts into a light-hearted narrative, likening thread-killing to a horror movie scenario, with participants playfully accusing each other of sabotaging discussions and attempting to "steal" the thread. The banter includes references to fictional scenarios involving dramatic rescues and humorous characterizations, maintaining a light and comedic atmosphere throughout.
  • #4,891
Moonbear said:
Burrs do have a tendency to cling to fur as well. Don't want to discover one of those in the wrong place!
Some thing just shouldn't be posted...
 
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  • #4,892
Moonbear said:
Burrs do have a tendency to cling to fur as well. Don't want to discover one of those in the wrong place!
You might damage your merkin trying to pull them out. Probably not a good idea to go trailblazing in the nude. Probably want to hold off on pruning those rose bushes too.
 
  • #4,893
Huckleberry said:
You might damage your merkin trying to pull them out. Probably not a good idea to go trailblazing in the nude. Probably want to hold off on pruning those rose bushes too.

Uh, yeah, there are some things better not done while nude, or even just in underwear, like climbing through rosebushes...right Evo? :wink: :smile:


BTW, all this talk around here about pie (and pi) has had me seriously craving pie for days now! So, here it is, 2:30 in the morning, and I've just stuck a berry pie in the oven because I want to have some for breakfast. :rolleyes:
 
  • #4,894
Moonbear said:
Uh, yeah, there are some things better not done while nude, or even just in underwear, like climbing through rosebushes...right Evo? :wink: :smile:
Is there some back-story here that we should know about? :devil:
 
  • #4,895
Danger said:
Is there some back-story here that we should know about? :devil:

Oh, yeah, somewhere in an old thread, Evo mentioned stepping outside while wearing only her underwear (to grab the newspaper off the porch, or something like that), and the door slammed shut and locked behind her, leaving her outside. The only way in was through a window behind some rose bushes as I recall the story. She really could have used your locksmithing skills for that one.

Well, the pie is out of the oven, so I'm off to sleep while it cools.
 
  • #4,896
Moonbear...


3:17 AM and ur still not sleeping

as a Bio Prof you should be aware that missing out on REM sleep will make you very easily irritable and make you beat your students with a pointer stick everytime a stupid question comes up :devil:
 
  • #4,897
Moonbear said:
She really could have used your locksmithing skills for that one.
I'm right sorry I missed out on that. And I worked on the barter system a lot... :-p
 
  • #4,898
cronxeh said:
Moonbear...


3:17 AM and ur still not sleeping

as a Bio Prof you should be aware that missing out on REM sleep will make you very easily irritable and make you beat your students with a pointer stick everytime a stupid question comes up :devil:

Nope, not sleeping yet. I don't have any teaching to do, and I spent all day today at the lab (I was there until midnight, dinner was eaten around 2 AM, pie in the oven by 2:30 AM...I'll probably sleep in tomorrow since I have far less that needs doing tomorrow than I had today). As for beating students with sticks, you're right, that's much more fun if I'm well rested. :devil: Darn, all I have is a laser pointer, no sticks.
 
  • #4,899
Moonbear said:
Darn, all I have is a laser pointer, no sticks.
Well, you can always try to blind the little bastards.
 
  • #4,900
ahh.. what does a research of a bio professor look like?

like what do you do in the lab (a typical day's routines list perhaps?)
 
  • #4,901
cronxeh said:
what do you do in the lab (a typical day's routines list perhaps?)
10:00 am—wake up
10:15 am—wake up again
11:05 am—get up
11:07 am—have coffee
11:20 am—wake up again
11:21 am—reheat coffee
11:22 am—have coffee; think about breakfast
11:23 am—give up on breakfast; think about going to lab
11:25 am—wake up again; throw out old coffee
11:26 am—make new coffee
etc.
 
  • #4,902
Evo said:
On the Border is cr@p. I hate to tell you this but chimichangas aren't Mexican, they're american, several claims to the first one, but probably from Arizona. Sorry. http://www.azcentral.com/home/food/mexico/articles/0427chimichange27-CR.html

There is quite a difference between real mexican food and what passes for mexican (really southwestern) food in most of America. Things like pozole or turkey legs with red mole or snapper escabeche are excellent examples of mexican food and like any other cuisine it varies considerably from region to region fish; seafood on the coast to beef, pork or goat inland. It's not like the cheese smothered, deep-fried gut bombs you find regularly around here. Look up a chef named Rick Bayless, he's quite well known for his traditional mexican fare.

Also, the best pizzas at home are made on a stone in the hottest oven you can crank out, I go for 500 fahrenheit and let it warm up at least 1/2 hour. Thin crust, not pre-cooked, with not too much toppings. You can also do them outside on a grill, which gives you that wood-fired kinda flavor.
 
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  • #4,903
Moonbear said:
Oh, yeah, somewhere in an old thread, Evo mentioned stepping outside while wearing only her underwear (to grab the newspaper off the porch, or something like that), and the door slammed shut and locked behind her, leaving her outside.
The kind of day a stalker dreams of. :bugeye: :-p (Great photo op) :-p :bugeye: :biggrin:

Oh and Muhahahhaaa! Back with my idea to kill Franzbear later. :devil:
 
  • #4,904
Danger said:
10:00 am—wake up
10:15 am—wake up again
11:05 am—get up
11:07 am—have coffee
11:20 am—wake up again
11:21 am—reheat coffee
11:22 am—have coffee; think about breakfast
11:23 am—give up on breakfast; think about going to lab
11:25 am—wake up again; throw out old coffee
11:26 am—make new coffee
etc.
Sounds like my day. :blushing:
 
  • #4,905
Artman said:
The kind of day a stalker dreams of. :bugeye: :-p (Great photo op) :-p :bugeye: :biggrin:
I have photos. Want me to just charge them to your account like the last batch? How many copies do you want? :wink:
 
  • #4,906
Evo said:
I have photos. Want me to just charge them to your account like the last batch? How many copies do you want? :wink:
Yes please. :biggrin: Just one of each to start.


<giggles like schoolboy and anticipates photo arrival> :-p
 
  • #4,907
Danger said:
10:00 am—wake up
10:15 am—wake up again
11:05 am—get up
11:07 am—have coffee
11:20 am—wake up again
11:21 am—reheat coffee
11:22 am—have coffee; think about breakfast
11:23 am—give up on breakfast; think about going to lab
11:25 am—wake up again; throw out old coffee
11:26 am—make new coffee
etc.

And I thought DocToxyn was the only one stalking me! How did you know my routine so well? :eek:
 
  • #4,908
cronxeh said:
ahh.. what does a research of a bio professor look like?

like what do you do in the lab (a typical day's routines list perhaps?)

I've got to run a foot sweat assay on some mice in the next few days, plus slice some brains for an in situ hybridization histochemistry method I'm trying to develop.
 
  • #4,909
DocToxyn said:
I've got to run a foot sweat assay on some mice in the next few days, plus slice some brains for an in situ hybridization histochemistry method I'm trying to develop.

That's a new one for me...a foot sweat assay? I didn't know mice had sweaty feet! Well, learn something new every day.

The rest of my week sounds pretty similar. I've been working on a cDNA probe for in situ, and if I can get that to work, I'll be combining that with immunocytochemistry. In between doing that, I've got a couple brains to slice as well, and some other immunocytochemistry to run. Oh, and there are always plenty of cells to count (hence the need for coffee; when I get my own lab, the microscope room is going to have to have its own entrance from the corridor so it's not part of the area zoned for radioactive material...I really want to be able to keep a cup of coffee nearby when counting lots of cells!) Let's see, what else? Oh, need to finish up revisions on the manuscript that was accepted, and finish up the last figure I need for another manuscript. The stuff I was working on as pilot data for a grant application hasn't panned out, so that's one less thing that needs to be done. I'm probably forgetting something else. Oh, this isn't really the day's list, it's more the week's list.

Oh, and need to go interrogate some grad students to find out why I didn't see any of them when I was in the lab this weekend. :devil: Classes are over, they should all be in the lab full time now!
 
  • #4,910
DocToxyn said:
I've got to run a foot sweat assay on some mice in the next few days, plus slice some brains for an in situ hybridization histochemistry method I'm trying to develop.
...served with fava beans and a nice kiante. :-p
 
  • #4,911
Moonbear said:
And I thought DocToxyn was the only one stalking me! How did you know my routine so well? :eek:

C'mon Danger, quit hoggin' the binoculars...ahhh, there she is. Doh! , I think she spotted us, quick man break out the disguises.
 
  • #4,912
Artman said:
...served with fava beans and a nice kiante. :-p

:smile: It does make people nervous when you tell them you have to go back to the lab to slice up some brains.

We have some human brain tissue in the lab too, and I always get the inevitable question of "where did it come from?" I like to give answers like it came from annoying students. Or, I tell them I had my assistant Igor run over to the morgue one night... (It's all from brain banks where people arrange to donate post-mortem for research.)
 
  • #4,913
Moonbear said:
That's a new one for me...a foot sweat assay? I didn't know mice had sweaty feet! Well, learn something new every day.

its a really cool assay, anesthetize with avertin, hit them with pilocarpine, a parasympathetic agonist, and watch the sweat pour (its quantified by counting pores formed in a dental amalgum you put on their feet). They also drool like crazy...nurse...suction!

Moonbear said:
...I really want to be able to keep a cup of coffee nearby when counting lots of cells!)

Maybe you should try one of those hydration packs that athletes use. You can covertly smuggle it around under your lab coat and pipe that fresh hot coffee right to the bite valve on your lapel. Plus those things hold like 2 liters :bugeye:. Of course you'd need to come up with something for the inevitable bathroom breaks, but I'll leave that up to you. :biggrin:
 
  • #4,914
DocToxyn said:
its a really cool assay, anesthetize with avertin, hit them with pilocarpine, a parasympathetic agonist, and watch the sweat pour (its quantified by counting pores formed in a dental amalgum you put on their feet). They also drool like crazy...nurse...suction!
Cool! What do you use that assay to assess? (If that's too much detail about your experiment to post here, send me a PM.) That approach also sounds like a good way to measure salivary corticosterone! Well, except the anesthesia would probably screw that all up. :smile:


Maybe you should try one of those hydration packs that athletes use. You can covertly smuggle it around under your lab coat and pipe that fresh hot coffee right to the bite valve on your lapel. Plus those things hold like 2 liters :bugeye:. Of course you'd need to come up with something for the inevitable bathroom breaks, but I'll leave that up to you. :biggrin:

:smile: Bathroom breaks are okay. I need to stand up and stretch once in a while anyway, but it takes too long to drink a cup of coffee, or else it's cold by the time I get back to it. (Oh, yeah, and summer is coming with air-conditioning; that's when I need the hot coffee just to keep my hands warm!)
 
  • #4,915
DocToxyn said:
I've got to run a foot sweat assay on some mice in the next few days,
All those years in school and he's checking out sweaty mice feet. :biggrin:
 
  • #4,916
Every time that I leave for 6 hours and come back, we've ran through a dozen topics
 
  • #4,917
Artman said:
Evo said:
I have photos. How many copies do you want? :wink:
Just one of each to start.

<giggles like schoolboy and anticipates photo arrival> :-p
<begins drooling and preparing plans to intercept Artman's mail>

Moonbear said:
And I thought DocToxyn was the only one stalking me! How did you know my routine so well? :eek:
He is merely my puppet, and returns all relevant information to me daily.

DocToxyn said:
I've got to run a foot sweat assay on some mice in the next few days, plus slice some brains for an in situ hybridization histochemistry method I'm trying to develop.
No kiddin'? Me too! :rolleyes:

DocToxyn said:
C'mon Danger, quit hoggin' the binoculars...ahhh, there she is. Doh! , I think she spotted us, quick man break out the disguises.
I'll trade you the binoculars for the night scope. And what the hell do you think this dog suit is, anyhow? You think I like you leading me around on a leash and pretending you're in charge? (Okay, maybe a little...)

DocToxyn said:
iMaybe you should try one of those hydration packs that athletes use. You can covertly smuggle it around under your lab coat and pipe that fresh hot coffee right to the bite valve on your lapel. Of course you'd need to come up with something for the inevitable bathroom breaks
She should be able to wear 2 of them, and keep one in reverse.

Evo said:
All those years in school and he's checking out sweaty mice feet. :biggrin:
Looking for a cure for Yommama, no doubt.

yomamma said:
Every time that I leave for 6 hours and come back, we've ran through a dozen topics
Okay, I kept it on the same topics. You happy now?
 
  • #4,918
Hey Danger.. you guys have more IHOP locations per population density than the United States does

WHAT GIVES, EH?
 
  • #4,919
Evo said:
All those years in school and he's checking out sweaty mice feet. :biggrin:

I'm compiling a list of human female foot sweat donors, if you want in?! Artman, Huckleberry and Danger volunteered as collectors. :-p :bugeye: Well I haven't really asked them, but I'm pretty sure they're on board.
Now, so I can fill out the proper forms, I need to know, what makes you sweaty?
 
  • #4,920
cronxeh said:
Hey Danger.. you guys have more IHOP locations per population density than the United States does

WHAT GIVES, EH?
Beats the hell out of me. I didn't know we had any. I've never seen one. Just looked in last year's Calgary phone book—can't find the new one—and there are none listed. (And despite what a lot of Yanks think about little Canadian burgs, Calgary is just short of 1,000,000 people.) I'd expect there to be one here, if anywhere. Maybe it's strictly an eastern thing. :confused: