I went to today's seminar, and if I have to suffer through that stuff, I'm making the rest of you suffer with me. I knew it was going to be boring from the title of the talk, but this part of the introduction of the speaker cemented that point in my mind:
". . . worked at the salinity laboratory, the world's foremost leading laboratory . . ."
Which prompted my friend to say "The world's foremost boring laboratory."
She also had the following to say about his outfit: part biogeochemist, part urban cowboy (but you probably had to actually see it for that to be funny - he was wearing a bolo tie).
Halfway through the talk I commented that it was so boring that I couldn't even make fun of it to keep myself interested.
Her response: "Au contraire. It is such a solid presentation, you can't find holes."
My favorite part was the end. Not only because it was the end, but also because he said "I went a little fast. Sorry about that. I was excited."
If I only had a nickle for every time those words had been uttered.
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Todays department thriller: Systems biology and the Drosophilla blastoderm. I didn't show up.
David Bowie came to town flying overhead; "Don't you dig my chops?" he cried. This is what they said:
Au contraire, Dave, quite the opposite, in fact. As it happens, au contraire, au contraire, mon frère.
;)
I really had to. I've been thinking in song verse all night.
How often have you heard those words uttered? Who uttered them? and did they involve sex?
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