Guy in bar: Yup.
Cheesehead: Me too.
Guy in bar: Fuckin'-A.
Cheesehead: Fuckin'-A.
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Professor Hottie: I remember meeting you when I visited your University.
Me: Yes, and I meant to tell you how much I enjoyed the seminar you gave about metamagnetic states in Cobaltites.
Dr. Hari: Yeah! She couldn't stop talking about you!
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Me (during my presentation): At low temperatures, the sample showed anonymous behavior. [Horrified, I realized that I said "anonymous" instead of "anomalous".] I'm sorry, I meant to say... anonymous.
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Random person in the audience during Undergrad's (from my lab) presentation: If your nanoparticles are 4 to 6 nanometers in diameter, why does your x-ray diffraction show sharp intense peaks when the particles are smaller than the wavelength of light?
Undergrad: Are you saying my particles aren't as small as I say they are? 'Cuz they are!
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Cheesehead, rerecording his outgoing messgae on his cellphone: Hi, this is Cheesehead. If you are that girl I gave my number to the other night, PLEASE LEAVE YOUR PHONE NUMBER AS I DON'T ALREADY HAVE IT!
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J: Do you want to go to a cold fusion talk?
Me: Sort of..... Do you?
J: Totally. I want to hear two things- "Einstein was wrong" and "The man's keeping me down".
Speaker (minutes later at a cold fusion talk: If you want to know why none of this work is funded, read Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.
J: Yesssss!
8 comments:
Kinda like Overheard in New York for Geeks. :) !!!AWSOME!!!
Very nice. Maybe those nanoparticles are anonymous?
sounds like you had a blast!
It was me who wished I was anonymous after that talk!
overheard at 5940 diamond lake lane for the last 48 hours (since i told tom your baltimore stories) "anonymous, did i say anonymous? fuckin' a i meant to say anonymous!"
Ha ha ha. Glad I have such a supportive step dad. Just kidding. Love ya!
I love it, so you said anonymous again? Gulp.
Did everyone crack up after the small particles comment?
Cool excerpts.
Scott-
Yes, I said anonymous again. Just when I start to regain my dignity and assert myself around the boys, they teasingly say, "I'm sorry...I meant to say anonymous." I'm afraid I won't live that down for quite some time.
As for the particle thing, the audience was more stunned than anything. Undergrad did a fantastic job, but I did have to have a talk with her regarding answering questions in an appropriate, non-defensive manner. The guy's question was legitimate, but I bailed her out with a correct answer (which, by the way, wasn't "cuz they are!").
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