Great one-liners from PF members

[Vanadium 50]

At the time I literally couldn’t think of any other product that you buy by weight

Breakfast cereal.

"Products are sold by weight, not volume. Some settling may occur."

 

[gmax137]

I'll always settle for bacon .

 

[berkeman]

At the time I literally couldn’t think of any other product that you buy by weight

Hey, waidaminute, why don't supermarkets have these anymore?

https://www.alamy.com/stock-photo-b...roduce-scale-at-a-grocery-store-17504026.html

 

[BillTre]

Some places do.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Or this?

 

[Dale]

To be fair, my wife was cooking bacon at the time. So, yeah. The only other products that came to mind (eggs and tortillas) weren’t sold by weight.

 

[DaveC426913]

Hey, waidaminute, why don't supermarkets have these anymore?

The quintessential 'banana for scale'.

 

[Frabjous]

Yes

For leaving V50 speechless.

Wow. Just wow.

 

[Vanadium 50]

Oh, I had a comment, all right. I just figured it would be best if kept to myself.

 

[berkeman]

That press release was...um...sufficiently rich in organic material that it could itself be used as a renewable fuel.

 

[phinds]

In a thread asking about making food from just raw elements

You have a series of different questions:
1) Can you eat the periodic table?
A: yes depending on what it is printed on.

 

[berkeman]

In a thread discussing how to judge the validity of sources (not peer-reviewed):

As they said "If it ducks like a quack..."

 

[jack action]

In a thread where the OP is trying to identify why a bracket has been failing before its expected life:

I'm trying to simulate this in FEA to identify the weak spots

No need for FEA to do that. The weak spots are where it breaks.

 

[Vanadium 50]

In a thread discussing how to judge the validity of sources (not peer-reviewed):

You had to be there.

 

[berkeman]

Sometimes we have to school newbies on the obvious...

Avoid sifting flour by the light of a candle.

 

[sysprog1]

 

[DaveC426913]

In a thread discussing how to judge the validity of sources (not peer-reviewed):

As they said "If it ducks like a quack..."

This gets wittier the more I read it.

In fact, it's positively steal-worthy for some of the woo discussions I get caught in.

 

[Borg]

Yes, it's a pleasant mix of dyslexic double entendre and skepticism.

 

[phinds]

It's much easier to revolutionize the world if you don't have to put numbers in.

 

[Flyboy]

Upon witnessing the chaos unfolding in a different department at work, I once quipped “not my circus, not my monkeys.”

Only it came out as “not my cirkeys, not my monkus.”

It took a solid minute for everyone to stop laughing.

 

[phinds]

I once was talking to my new boss from home on my flip phone but needed to take some notes so I asked her to "please give me a second to put on my head free handset. Fortunately she had a sense of humor and we both got a good laugh out of it.

 

[PeterDonis]

head free handset

For some calls I am on such a thing would be a welcome change...

 

[berkeman]

From the thread about Dr. Hossenfelder's "7 Coincidences" video:

I once stayed at a hotel room where the room number was the same as the mass of the Λ baryon. Coincidence? I think not!