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[WWGD]

Wow, temperature will range today from 51 in the morning to 23 at night. How does one dress up for that?

 

[dkotschessaa]

This is a great line I would like to use somewhere in a conversation, but I can't figure out how!

I don't know why, but this reminds me of this from Ghostbusters

Ray Stantz: You mean you never even had a Slinky?
Egon Spengler: We had part of a Slinky. But I straightened it.

 

[fresh_42]

Has anyone any idea how, where and even much more important, without being disrespectful or discriminating the question or the person who posted it, to make a pun on a thread title? I mean "Problem with Bose-Einstein Condensation" from @ShayanJ well-nigh begs for an answer like "Who hasn't? Ask an experimentalist!", but by no means and never do I want to disrespect neither question nor ShayanJ, the more I very much appreciate his contributions to PF because they almost always bear something to learn for me. But it's so hard for me not to ...

 

[ShayanJ]

Has anyone any idea how, where and even much more important, without being disrespectful or discriminating the question or the person who posted it, to make a pun on a thread title? I mean "Problem with Bose-Einstein Condensation" from @ShayanJ well-nigh begs for an answer like "Who hasn't? Ask an experimentalist!", but by no means and never do I want to disrespect neither question nor ShayanJ, the more I very much appreciate his contributions to PF because they almost always bear something to learn for me. But it's so hard for me not to ...

That's not disrespectful but I appreciate it that you're being careful about it.

I think the best way is quoting it here and replying, like this:

Problem with Bose-Einstein Condensation

Who hasn't?(EDIT: "ask an experimentalist" is good because it makes the joke more precise and decreases the probability that the joke reminds the subject any bad memories!)

I would have laughed because its a good quick joke and there would be no chance of misunderstanding because we hardly ever talked before and there is no past between us to make such a joke loaded in a bad way. But if you want to make such a joke and this still doesn't feel secure or you have a past with the subject that may make the joke loaded, you better be careful. Of course adding more explanation decreases the chance of any misunderstanding but depending on the personality of the subject your explanation may not be enough. But there is also the possibility that a good explanation added to a good joke may actually improve the relationship and fade the memories of any unfriendly confrontation in the past a little bit. So its good to make jokes if you're good at it and so its good to practice to become good at making jokes that make it clear that they're not loaded.

Also, I'm happy that I'm helping. Thanks for mentioning.

 

[Enigman]

Has anyone any idea how, where and even much more important, without being disrespectful or discriminating the question or the person who posted it, to make a pun on a thread title? I mean "Problem with Bose-Einstein Condensation" from @ShayanJ well-nigh begs for an answer like "Who hasn't? Ask an experimentalist!", but by no means and never do I want to disrespect neither question nor ShayanJ, the more I very much appreciate his contributions to PF because they almost always bear something to learn for me. But it's so hard for me not to ...

Isn't that what emoticons are for?

 

[Bystander]

Isn't that what emoticons are for?

There can be misunderstandings even so.

 

[dkotschessaa]

There can be misunderstandings even so.

You mean there are some problems even emojis can't solve?

WHAT KIND OF WORLD ARE WE LIVING IN!

 

[Bystander]

WHAT KIND OF WORLD ARE WE LIVING IN!

For example, Homer Simpson is regularly misused/misapplied ... "."

 

[1oldman2]

 

[zoobyshoe]

I used to have a book titled, "Mysteries of the Unexplained." I think this uncannily prophetic TV episode from a 1950's show no one remembers anymore, would make a good inclusion in that book:

http://www.snopes.com/trackdown-trump-character-wall/

 

[dkotschessaa]

Woohoo. New avatar that is slightly different from my old one.

 

[BillTre]

Woohoo. New avatar that is slightly different from my old one.

You've aged.

 

[dkotschessaa]

You've aged.

Mitch Hedberg: One time, this guy handed me a picture of him, he said "Here's a picture of me when I was younger." Every picture is of you when you were younger

 

[fresh_42]

Every picture is of you when you were younger.

My thoughts when I look in the mirror in the morning: Shall I shave? The guy in the past obviously isn't, so I didn't. A moment later, the guy, who was formerly my future wasn't either. So what sense would it make to shave?

Btw.: funny find on the internet: http://cosmos-book.github.io/high-jump/index.html
but don't let a kangaroo jump on Phobos!

 

[Borg]

Not that I'm superstitious but my wife has an important job interview on Friday the 13th.

 

[fresh_42]

Not that I'm superstitious but my wife has an important job interview on Friday the 13th.

I've had an exam on a day comparable to Mardi Gras,

 

[dkotschessaa]

Not that I'm superstitious but my wife has an important job interview on Friday the 13th.

Well, Fridays are generally regarded as the happiest day of the week, as it hails the coming of the weekend.

As for 13.

$1^2 + 3^2 = 10$ and then
$1^2 + 0^2 = 1$

So 13 is a happy number.

So really it's the best day!

-Dave K

 

[fresh_42]

Well, Fridays are generally regarded as the happiest day of the week, as it hails the coming of the weekend.

And not to forget Freyja! (Mind the list she stands for!)

Btw.: An exercise (induction) in my first year's book on calculus has been to show that the 13th is more often a Frigg-day than any other weekday.

 

[dkotschessaa]

And not to forget Freyja! (Mind the list she stands for!)

Btw.: An exercise (induction) in my first year's book on calculus has been to show that the 13th is more often a Frigg-day than any other weekday.

So we've got a Norse sex goddess and a happy number on the same day. Wow! Happy Friday the 13th!

 

[Borg]

Interview completed. Hoping for the best.

 

[Evo]

Ok, who new that Ritz crackers came in bacon flavor now and didn't tell me?

 

[Bystander]

who new that Ritz crackers

Seriously? Tsk. Tsk. Tsk.

 

[Evo]

Seriously? Tsk. Tsk. Tsk.

My K key is sticking?

 

[Bystander]

My K key is sticking?

Excuses. Excuses. Haven't noticed you posting "cute itten" stories.

 

[fresh_42]

Ok, who new that Ritz crackers came in bacon flavor now and didn't tell me?

Are you, like me, one these "If in doubt, add bacon!" people? Although, I'd probably say add bacon and melted cheese

 

[fresh_42]

First match went wrong ... hope the next gets better ...

 

[Borg]

Not that I'm superstitious but my wife has an important job interview on Friday the 13th.

Interview completed. Hoping for the best.

@fresh_42 and @dkotschessaa
You guys were right about it being lucky. She got an offer emailed to her this morning.

 

[dkotschessaa]

@fresh_42 and @dkotschessaa
You guys were right about it being lucky. She got an offer emailed to her this morning.

YEAH!

 

[zoobyshoe]

San Diego deluged with rain today. I powered my old Beetle through a particularly deep river, maybe two feet deep. When I came out on the opposite bank my brakes were suddenly not grabbing very well. It seems plain water acts as a lubricant in these old drum brakes.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I really enjoy The Doctor Blake Mysteries. It's on PBS Saturday nights.

Dapper Dr. Blake is a "Police Surgeon" and low key alcoholic who solves a murder a week in Ballarat, Australia. The show is unique on US TV for being set in Australia. Blake is the only Australian fictional detective I'm aware of, and the show is doubly interesting for being set in the 1950's. They do a super job of re-creating the era: cars, clothes, hairstyles, props.

 

[Borg]

I really enjoy The Doctor Blake Mysteries. It's on PBS Saturday nights.

Dapper Dr. Blake is a "Police Surgeon" and low key alcoholic who solves a murder a week in Ballarat, Australia. The show is unique on US TV for being set in Australia. Blake is the only Australian fictional detective I'm aware of, and the show is doubly interesting for being set in the 1950's. They do a super job of re-creating the era: cars, clothes, hairstyles, props.

You haven't seen Ms.[/PLAIN] Fisher's Murder Mysteries? Also in Australia but around the 1920's

 

[zoobyshoe]

You haven't seen Ms.[/PLAIN] Fisher's Murder Mysteries? Also in Australia but around the 1920's

Wow. I had that playing in the background while I was on the internet a couple times, and it completely failed to register she was Australian. Her accent sounds much more British.

 

[jim hardy]

You haven't seen Ms.[/PLAIN] Fisher's Murder Mysteries?

Who could forget her fan dance in episode "Murder Most Scandalous" ?

 

[zoobyshoe]

Bad weather here. A lot of people had no power overnight. Today we're supposed to get an even worse storm: very high winds predicted. San Diego has this problem that eucalyptus trees have been planted everywhere. They're very brittle and don't stand up to wind well. Big, heavy limbs come crashing down.

 

[zoobyshoe]

OK, the forecast was full of dire predictions, but it's already almost 4PM and no rain at all. I guess the storm's been delayed due to weather.

 

[Borg]

The fake news thread got locked but I thought that this story was interesting because of the scientific approach to the problem.

Cambridge scientists consider fake news 'vaccine'

Makes me wonder if someday there will be fake-news anti-vaxxers.

 

[fresh_42]

Makes me wonder if someday there will be fake-news anti-vaxxers.

?
And I thought me was the idealist ... FB is an entire fake-news-party and the orange-one just added Twitter and press conferences to the list! Just the immunization part seems to be too difficult to handle.

 

[Borg]

Maybe that didn't come out right. What I meant is whether the cambridge vaccine will someday be met with people believing that they shouldn't read the vaccine stories because it will cause some completely unrelated problem.

 

[zoobyshoe]

The fake news thread got locked but I thought that this story was interesting because of the scientific approach to the problem.

Cambridge scientists consider fake news 'vaccine'

That article seemed awfully uninformative about the inoculation method. I found this one, which is more detailed:
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-psychological-vaccine-immunize-fake-news.html

 

[dkotschessaa]

I'm lazy today because

 

[BillTre]

I'm lazy today because

Good reason!

 

[WWGD]

Theresa May may or may not be leading the UK from Brexit ( Will there be a Scoxit?)

 

[Astronuc]

Great letter from the new US Secretary of Defense, Gen James Mattis

It’s good to be back and I’m grateful to serve alongside you as Secretary of Defense.

Together with the Intelligence Community we are the sentinels and guardians of our nation. We need only look to you, the uniformed and civilian members of the Department and your families, to see the fundamental unity of our country. You represent an America committed to the common good; an America that is never complacent about defending its freedoms; and an America that remains a steady beacon of hope for all mankind.

Every action we take will be designed to ensure our military is ready to fight today and in the future. Recognizing that no nation is secure without friends, we will work with the State Department to strengthen our alliances. Further, we are devoted to gaining full value from every taxpayer dollar spent on defense, thereby earning the trust of Congress and the American people.

I am confident you will do your part. I pledge to you I’ll do my best as your Secretary.

Mattis is a prolific reader.

Thomas Ricks on Mattis
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/11/21...-means-for-us-for-the-military-and-for-trump/

 

[fresh_42]

I bet they only wanted to blow something up ...
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-physicists-patent-detonation-technique-mass-produce.html

 

[collinsmark]

I bet they only wanted to blow something up ...
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-physicists-patent-detonation-technique-mass-produce.html

Ooh, I used to know that professor.

 

[zoobyshoe]

I bet they only wanted to blow something up ...
https://phys.org/news/2017-01-physicists-patent-detonation-technique-mass-produce.html

That's pretty awesome. By complete accident they radically cut the expense and time it takes to make it.

 

[dkotschessaa]

I think I found a mistake in Lord of the Rings (the movie version anyway).

They always show Lemdas bread as white. But clearly what they were eating was German whole Rye Bread from Aldi (the one on the right, though the other is good also). I'm supposed to even watch my carb intake, and eating bread usually crashes my blood sugar and makes me lethargic. But I swear that after consuming one slice of this stuff I am temporarily granted super human powers.

 

[WWGD]

I think I found a mistake in Lord of the Rings (the movie version anyway).

They always show Lemdas bread as white. But clearly what they were eating was German whole Rye Bread from Aldi (the one on the right, though the other is good also). I'm supposed to even watch my carb intake, and eating bread usually crashes my blood sugar and makes me lethargic. But I swear that after consuming one slice of this stuff I am temporarily granted super human powers.

Why don't you try putting some protein on your bread : butter, cheese, some meat, to help avoid the crash?

 

[fresh_42]

Why don't you try putting some protein on your bread : butter, cheese, some meat, to help avoid the crash?

Won't help. Taste will still be awful. Healthy, but too sour.

 

[dkotschessaa]

Why don't you try putting some protein on your bread : butter, cheese, some meat, to help avoid the crash?

That's what I'm saying..With this bread it's much less of a problem. Some butter or cream cheese on it is good. I have it with eggs in the morning for more protein.

What I'm suspecting is that rye is somehow better for me.