On the way to Redfern Station this evening I caught a snippet of conversation that went something like this:
“Yes, they’ve been over-Westernized—”
and my first thought was
“What did you do, leave it in primary antibody too long?”
I really, really, really need to get out of here.
I was sitting next to a man on the train who was reading the newspaper and the word fragment |omics as part of an advert was visible. He moved the paper so that I was able to see the full word and I spent about 5 seconds thinking that it was rather ridiculous that the ecologists had claimed another word on this -omics bandwagon.
heh heh heh heh. And what about the ‘comics’ page?
A Yank colleague of mine once claimed that she was going to go out and get ‘blotted’ – great verbal scientist typo. Yet sounds a lot more devastated and dehydrated than merely getting ‘blotto’.
I might have to steal that one, Dr Rohn.
I’ve just started a new (office) job – yuck, where they seem to love having ‘teleconferences’. My colleague said to me the other day, “I seem to be in TCs all the time”. ‘Tissue culture?’ I thought. And then fondly reminisced back to my PhD days of ‘living in the hood’ (which I never thought I’d miss).
Richard – how long did it take you to realise that the Southern Cross had nothing to do with hybridisation. Of any kind.
What? You mean it doesn’t?
All that SSC, wasted.
Whenever I see NPG, I read ‘Nature Publishing Group’. Unfortunately, London also houses the National Portrait Gallery, so I’m often wrongfooted by headlines like ‘NPG receives £5 million donation’.
I am afraid I don’t have any similar and clever experiences to share, Richard, and can only say that I sympathize. Oh, how I sympathize. By the way, have you ever noticed that “theses” sounds an awful lot like “feces”? I reeeaaally need to get out of here.
I am ashamed to admit, Anna, that I often deliberately confuse those two words in speech. Asking a student how their faeces is coming along isn’t really that clever…