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    • RIP Humph

      Saturday, 26 Apr 2008 - 07:27 UTC

      I know that certain people in this network will be sad to hear that Humphrey Lyttelton has died . He’ll be sadly missed.

      Last updated: Saturday, 26 Apr 2008 - 07:27 UTC

      • Comments

        • Date:
          Saturday, 26 Apr 2008 - 08:46 UTC
          Henry Gee said:

          Devastated. Camden High Street. That’s very sad news indeed, Richard. Lancaster Gate. But thanks for telling me, even though according to the Berlin revisions of the Reykjavik amendment of 1908, green hexagons cannot parse diagonally when precession is negative. Oh, I see what you mean … how about Railway Sidings, Hoxton? Balls Pond Raod. Ooh, very clever. Really ingenious that.

          Mornington Crescent!

          Now, will everyone please join me in singing the words of Abide With Me – to the tune of South Rampart Street Parade.

        • Date:
          Saturday, 26 Apr 2008 - 09:35 UTC
          Jennifer Rohn said:

          Very sad. Some of my happiest moments have been spent home alone in the kitchen, cooking dinner, listening to him on the radio and laughing so hard I could scarcely see the chopping block.

        • Date:
          Saturday, 26 Apr 2008 - 09:45 UTC
          Bob O'Hara said:

          So, the sustained high C# of time has finally been extinguished by the tatty chord of fate.

        • Date:
          Saturday, 26 Apr 2008 - 10:50 UTC
          Henry Gee said:

          _ laughing so hard I could scarcely see the chopping block._

          Is that why you’re missing three fingers?

        • Date:
          Saturday, 26 Apr 2008 - 11:02 UTC
          Richard Grant said:

          Maybe we should have a “Humphry Lyttelton Memorial Lecture” at the conference in August?

        • Date:
          Saturday, 26 Apr 2008 - 16:47 UTC
          Henry Gee said:

          Such a lecture would have to be given by four people, each of whom says one word of the lecture, passing it on to the next person, who says the next word, and so on, while the lovely Samantha helps the moderator polish his laser pointer, until the moderator returns and makes a rude noise as of an antique car horn.

        • Date:
          Saturday, 26 Apr 2008 - 21:06 UTC
          Richard Grant said:

          Much like Network Nature anyway, then.

        • Date:
          Saturday, 26 Apr 2008 - 21:51 UTC
          Henry Gee said:

          Another idea would be to solicit suggestions for Scientists’ Film Club.

        • Date:
          Sunday, 27 Apr 2008 - 06:13 UTC
          Bob O'Hara said:

          Lawrence of Arabidopsis?

        • Date:
          Sunday, 27 Apr 2008 - 07:33 UTC
          Richard Grant said:

          Bring me the Gilson of Alfredo Garcia

        • Date:
          Sunday, 27 Apr 2008 - 08:53 UTC
          Henry Gee said:

          And we could also to a tag-limerick.

          I was running a Sephadex gel…

        • Date:
          Sunday, 27 Apr 2008 - 08:54 UTC
          Chris Surridge said:

          Sex, Lies and Autoclave Tape

          Apoptosis in Venice

          Coomassie Blue Velvet

          The Cruel LHC

          Jim and Francis’s Excellent Adventure

          How to Succeed at Bioinformatics without really trying.

          The CONSTANS Gardener

          It’s a MADS, MADS-box, Mothers-Against-Decaplentaplegia, Multiwavelength Anomalous Displacement World

        • Date:
          Sunday, 27 Apr 2008 - 08:57 UTC
          Richard Grant said:

          I was running a Sephadex gel…
          when I detected a terrible smell

        • Date:
          Sunday, 27 Apr 2008 - 09:16 UTC
          Henry Gee said:

          The Unfalsifiables

          Everything You Ever Wanted To Know About The Release Of Calicum From Intracellular Stores But Were Afraid To Ask

          The Bourne Hypothesis

          Some Like It Hox

        • Date:
          Sunday, 27 Apr 2008 - 09:21 UTC
          Richard Grant said:

          Reservoir Blots

        • Date:
          Sunday, 27 Apr 2008 - 10:23 UTC
          Brian Derby said:

          Gentlemen Prefer Bonds

          The English Patent

          All Quiet on the Western Blot

          Once upon a time in the Lab

          The Postgraduate

          The Wiki man

        • Date:
          Sunday, 27 Apr 2008 - 10:40 UTC
          Bob O'Hara said:

          Oh what a lovely quark!

          Oceans 11 (p < 0.01) and the sequel Oceans 12 (+/-0.2)

          MAD Max, starring Mel Gilson

          A Night at the Operon

          “Sex, Lies and Autoclave Tape”: True story: a few years ago someone gave a talk about their analysis of videos of Drosophila mating behaviour, so they called it “Sex, Flies and Videotape”

        • Date:
          Sunday, 27 Apr 2008 - 10:47 UTC
          Richard Grant said:

          Fatal Affinity

          From Dusk to Dawn (that one works as is, I feel)

          Ice Bucket in Alex

          Four Clonings and a Miniprep

        • Date:
          Sunday, 27 Apr 2008 - 11:13 UTC
          Henry Gee said:

          Clueless (the Drosophila mutant, of course)

          The Fly

          Forbidden Plant

        • Date:
          Sunday, 27 Apr 2008 - 13:00 UTC
          Henry Gee said:

          Mary Shelley’s Vogelstein

          The Ordovician Job

          Ammonite at the Opera

          Sedimentary, My Dear Watson

          Those Magnificent Men In Their Machines That Go ‘Ping’

        • Date:
          Sunday, 27 Apr 2008 - 14:56 UTC
          Henry Gee said:

          The Hadron Mass Experiment

        • Date:
          Sunday, 27 Apr 2008 - 15:01 UTC
          Chris Surridge said:

          Gone with the Wnt

        • Date:
          Sunday, 27 Apr 2008 - 15:02 UTC
          Chris Surridge said:

          Roman Holliday Junction

        • Date:
          Sunday, 27 Apr 2008 - 15:06 UTC
          Henry Gee said:

          I was running a Sephadex gel…
          when I detected a terrible smell
          I remarked to O’Hara…

        • Date:
          Sunday, 27 Apr 2008 - 16:04 UTC
          Graham Steel said:

          I was running a Sephadex gel…
          when I detected a terrible smell
          I remarked to O’Hara…
          Who looked at Beast in a manner

        • Date:
          Sunday, 27 Apr 2008 - 16:46 UTC
          Bob O'Hara said:

          I was running a Sephadex gel…
          when I detected a terrible smell
          I remarked to O’Hara…
          Who looked at Beast in a manner
          And said “I see we’re both in the same Hell”

          Oh, and

          Lamarck of Zorro.

        • Date:
          Sunday, 27 Apr 2008 - 20:17 UTC
          Brian Derby said:

          The Sound of Q-bits
          MASS

        • Date:
          Monday, 28 Apr 2008 - 00:28 UTC
          Richard Grant said:

          Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Autoclaves

          Lord of the (cloning) rings

        • Date:
          Monday, 28 Apr 2008 - 08:53 UTC
          Henry Gee said:

          Not so much a movie franchise, more a way of life.

          The Bourne Conjecture

          The Bourne Hypothesis

          The Bourne Experiment

          The Bourne Manuscript

          The Bourne Publication

          The Bourne Accusation

          The Bourne Investigation

          The Bourne Falsification

          The Bourne Retraction

          The Bourne Recrimination

        • Date:
          Monday, 28 Apr 2008 - 09:03 UTC
          Henry Gee said:

          I wonder if there is a way to represent Swanee Kazoo on a blog. Perhaps Bob will know how.

        • Date:
          Monday, 28 Apr 2008 - 09:30 UTC
          Richard Grant said:

          I’m sure One blog to the tune of another is possible.

        • Date:
          Monday, 28 Apr 2008 - 10:23 UTC
          Bob O'Hara said:

          I don’t know about Swanee Kazoo on a blog (instant messaging is a better medium for that), but Cheddar Gorge is possible. With a little help from my friends acquaintances fellow bloggers.

        • Date:
          Monday, 28 Apr 2008 - 10:27 UTC
          Richard Grant said:

          parrrp

        • Date:
          Monday, 28 Apr 2008 - 10:28 UTC
          Henry Gee said:

          Thought so.

        • Date:
          Tuesday, 29 Apr 2008 - 02:45 UTC
          Richard Grant said:

          Ah, that was the motor horn sound for the end of the round, not an attempt at kazoo.

          Samantha has scored, apparently.

        • Date:
          Tuesday, 29 Apr 2008 - 04:28 UTC
          Henry Gee said:

          I thought that was just her helping you oil your trumpet?

        • Date:
          Tuesday, 29 Apr 2008 - 04:58 UTC
          Bob O'Hara said:

          A couple of late entries:

          Transposons (“Exons in disguise”)

          One ‘flu in the Cuckoo’s Nest

        • Date:
          Tuesday, 29 Apr 2008 - 10:59 UTC
          Richard Grant said:

          Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome Mr and Mrs Merasechainreaction, and their daughter, Polly Merasechainreaction.

        • Date:
          Tuesday, 29 Apr 2008 - 11:31 UTC
          Henry Gee said:

          And will you welcome, in addition, Mrs and Mrs Monella and their daughter Sal; hotly pursued by Mr and Mrs Smear and their recently ennobled son, Sir Vic L. Smear; not to mention Mrs and Mrs Malmedium and their daughter Minnie. [None of these are original – I shamelessly nicked them from an ex-girlfriend who used to be a microbiologist, and it shows]


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