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[Ben-San]

Slam Bradley has been 'stached up for the occasion. Whatever this occasion might be.

Unused alternate mustachioed Slam:

[V-Adore]

All this time I thought it was a coffee cup on a saucer. Wow.

That's more plausible than its actual origin which is, if I recall correctly, from one of the very first threads on the board -- here (thank you, search function!) Ah, back in August 2003, when I was a shiny newb.

[jough]

Ah yes, back when I'd just declare a topic "LAME" and lock it, a la Onstad back on Dumbrella.

Lovely.

[swinehund]

That's more plausible than its actual origin which is, if I recall correctly, from one of the very first threads on the board -- here (thank you, search function!) Ah, back in August 2003, when I was a shiny newb.

Okay, I do not feel so bad. That is not the sort of backstory that you would immediately guess. I mean, not feeling bad aside from that I apparently should have read all the archives by now. I did like the thread ending, nice and to the point.

Hey look, more biology nerd humour!

[wombat]

I am surprised that I only get four hits when I search 'googly eyes.'  I could have sworn this was a topic we discussed more often.

[Hobot]

Hey look, more biology nerd humour!

swinehund, you have redox-ed your way into my heart.

[swinehund]

swinehund, you have redox-ed your way into my heart.

So I working on how evolutionary rates at each site in a protein are affected by general structural factors, and ADH is one of the enzymes I'm working on. I'm all computing the RMS distance between isoforms, trying to consider how differences in substrate or flexibility of binding may complicate things. Blah blah blah. Not too long ago, I could draw the structure of all 20 common amino acids from memory, and push electrons around the TCA cycle quite readily.

Did you know that while writing the description for that picture, I had to pull out the LeO the Lion goes GrrrR (loses electrons = oxidation, gains electrons = reduction) mnemonic from high school to figure out what happened to ethanol? It was not a proud moment.

[FlipConstantine]

Science Stuff...

Suddenly, I feel dumb.  I don't know why...

[Hobot]

Did you know that while writing the description for that picture, I had to pull out the LeO the Lion goes GrrrR (loses electrons = oxidation, gains electrons = reduction) mnemonic from high school to figure out what happened to ethanol? It was not a proud moment.

I wish I had known that mnemonic last semester.  I have relied on the dull knowledge that since electrons have a negative charge, gaining one is a loss of positive charge, hence reduction.  Yawn.

If it makes you feel better, I pulled out my notes on the subject of fermentation and spent about ten minutes trying to think of a pun, but to no avail.  But I'm glad I did scan my notes, because I almost posted "You have oxphos-ed your way into my heart," which would have been embarrassing.

[smick]

Usually I resist this sort of tomfoolery, but I had to join in on the mustache avatar business.

[V-Adore]

I'm trying to come up with a pun dealing with injecting Wnt1+myc reporter constructs into fertilized zebragiraffe eggs and then immunohistochemically assaying for proliferation and Wnt1 activity, but it just ain't coming. Aside from maybe the wild backfire of the TSA -- for when you want your fluorochemistry to turn out like your last vacation!

[swinehund]

I'm trying to come up with a pun dealing with injecting Wnt1+myc reporter constructs into fertilized zebragiraffe eggs and then immunohistochemically assaying for proliferation and Wnt1 activity, but it just ain't coming. Aside from maybe the wild backfire of the TSA -- for when you want your fluorochemistry to turn out like your last vacation!

Yeah, these things run the risk of being severe in-jokes, even if they're good. I have to admit I didn't even get the TSA bit.

The closest I came to a decent one was when I had a pet rat, and she had attacked a zucchini and left a few little nibbles in it. I called them yum binding sites and thought it was funny. I'm not so sure now.

Hey wait, I've got one. Why did the chicken cross the road? Sexual selection.
I'm having a really hard time here.

[theinevitable]

hmm.

the inner dork in me is crying. I want to have a good joke to tell! I am jealous!

You're all a bunch of geeks! Who cares about your stupid science anyway! *rushes off in tears*

[Hobo Frenzy]

I've finally cracked and I've applied a beard to my avatar. Looking good, eh? Although the floatingness of it all is creeping me out a bit. What was this thread about again?

[V-Adore]

Yeah, these things run the risk of being severe in-jokes, even if they're good. I have to admit I didn't even get the TSA bit.

That particularly weak "pun" was based on a double meaning of TSA: "Tyramide Signal Amplification," a method by which you improve fluorescent labeling during immunohistochemistry but which actually just makes your embryos these homogenous glowing green wads, and the Transportation Safety Authority, the jerkoffs who randomly search my bag way more than would be truly random.

The closest I came to a decent one was when I had a pet rat, and she had attacked a zucchini and left a few little nibbles in it. I called them yum binding sites and thought it was funny. I'm not so sure now.

Hey wait, I've got one. Why did the chicken cross the road? Sexual selection.
I'm having a really hard time here.

Man, it's okay. I'm reminded of the time at UCI that I was asked by a drunken postdoc what my favorite enzyme was, and I choked and said "holdases!" Which aren't even enzymes, because I'm an idiot.