Accidental Innuendos

[asterroc]

The one innuendo I can't seem to avoid, is when debating the pros and cons of manned spaceflight, I invariably record one of the pros as pubic support. Sometimes I manage to sneak the l in there before the roomful of middle schoolers catch it, but sometimes not. It's a 50/50 chance.

A few weeks ago when studying forces we had a box with some forces on it, and after doing the x- and y-components we had to solve two equations for the two unknowns of tension and acceleration. So of course I started telling the class we had to find T & ... I trailed off, happens all the time, and picked back up with a & T. Only one kid caught it at first, but as he laughed some of the others caught on as well.

At least I haven't yet done any anal sizing of data. That was someone else. :)

Comments

[marquiswildbill.livejournal.com]

But part of the fun of science is all of the innuendo. No specialty can top physical organic. We spend half of our time talking about HOMO behavior. And the classic orgo 1 innuendo is the SN2 reaction, because the HOMO of the nucleophile performs a backside addition. And that gets the leaving group off.

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Oh my, I'm not sure if I could get away with jokes like those in Massachusetts, home of the first legal US gay marriages. :)

Actually, I do sometimes struggle with how much of jokes like that are appropriate, create interest in the subject, and build camaraderie, and how much jokes like those are alienating, immature, and biased. *shrug* I think it really depends on the group, but of course if I go with their average sense of humor, there could always be an outlier.

[marquiswildbill.livejournal.com]

Well, they are certainly immature and tasteless, but with the combination of the stress of being a chem major, and the fumes in the lab, we make alot of stupid jokes. And then there is the age and maturity factor of most undergrads.
But chemists don't always grow out of it. There is a reaction called the Cope reaction. Many Copes are degenerate reactions. Cope was apparently a real ass, this led to a number of papers being published about these reactions solely to have the words "degenerate Cope" in the title.