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• Date:

  Wednesday, 03 Jun e 2009 - 08:41 UTC

  Henry Gee said:

  YHere are a few more, just in case you run into a slew of hot new mutants. NB – some of these will have to be discovered on your future Postdoc in the UK.

  • fiddled expenses (fix)
  • obamarama (oba)
  • guantanamo (git)
  • axolotl (axl)

  
  W. Axolotl Rose, yesterday.

  • chinese democracy (chi)
  • speed date (spd)
  • heavy weather (hew)
  • birdland (bir)

  er…

  • that’s it (tit)

• Date:

  Wednesday, 03 Jun e 2009 - 14:39 UTC

  Maxine Clarke said:

  I think that last one in your post may be a little out of date by the time you make the discovery, Dara ;-)

  Henry – Croxyeggfoo (Gee) ?

• Date:

  Wednesday, 03 Jun e 2009 - 14:49 UTC

  Eva Amsen said:

  I like “frappuccino”. I did once try to knock down cappuccino (as part of a multiple gene knockdown thing), but the construct I had against it didn’t work. Sadness. I was hoping to be able to give a talk in which I had to say Cappuccino a lot…

• Date:

  Friday, 05 Jun e 2009 - 21:41 UTC

  Sue Bello said:

  You don’t need to find a new gene for this, all you need is a new spontaneous or ENU induced mutation for which you can make some case that your desired name makes sense. Say “earmuff” for a mutation that results in really long ear hair :)