06.09.11

From: 1
To: 2

someone is on the geeky blog that i read...

http://gizmodo.com/5809926/shooting-challenge-infinite-loop

yep. be prepared for nerds, yo.


From: 2
To: 1

wait. what will the nerds do?


From: 1
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You know.... nerdy things that... nerds... do?
(This statement is best imagined accompanied by vague hand waves)


From: 2
To: 1

In mildly related news, getting that USB card reader like you suggested was LIFE-ALTERING.


From: 1
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Excellent!

ps - Sodium Pentothal is LIE-FALTERING
pps - Terribly sorry for that pun.

ppps - no, i'm not.


From: 2
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You know, I’d never seen that spelled. Now you’re responsible for the thing I learned today, too.

Vaguely, vaguely related nerdy thing: No one (surprise) fact checked Cherie Currie’s memoir about being in the Runaways. She mentions being given “Patosin” to induce labor when she was pregnant, which appears to be a phonetic version of Pitocin? Maybe her editor just figured she knew her drug names (actually kind of a good bet).


From: 1
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To tell the truth, I had to double-check the spelling.

ps - OMG ANOTHER PUN.


From: 2
To: 1

I’d never heard the T, so I’d never have thought about the prefix being spelled that way at all. D’you think it’s because after you give it to someone and you get the information you need, you high-five your partner? FAKE SCIENCE


From: 1
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I was going to respond with an email that dropped all humor, and gave you a very technical explanation of the name. That rapidly became exhausting. So...

YES HIGH-FIVES FOR SCIENCE.

11 comments:

uncle paul said...

You all are living out Dinosaur Comics. I am impressed!

kidchamp said...

george is handy like that.

Katherine Cortes said...

you totally lost me with OMG another pun. What?

Amanda said...

I don't know about this "1" character, L. 

But science is awfully nice.

kidchamp said...

that one took me a minute, too. 

kidchamp said...

except my chem teacher in junior high who sold junk food from his classroom at lunch: he totally yelled at me when i took him aside and asked if i could cut up the six-pack rings from all the sodas he was unloading before he threw them away. BIRDS ARE AT STAKE HERE, ASSHOLE.

LPC said...

I so didn't understand this conversation that I felt like an Ancient Greek waking up in Long Beach. But then I clicked on the first link and I didn't care. As an unironic old fool, I think that's really nifty.

g said...

Perhaps it would help if I explain that Sodium Pentothal is a form of rock salt that Catholics store in little vials, in rememberance of the appearance of the Holy Spirit to the Apostles.

No, really.

enjelani said...

ohh. i just got this, like, today.

Katherine Cortes said...

oh, read again and got it. but I'm not sure that's a pun. definitely a play on words, but not a pun.

kidchamp said...

it draws on a secondary or tertiary definition of pun, for sure. i decided to allow it.