Great one-liners from PF members

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gmax137 said:
I was in a rad protection training class at a power plant. They showed us a little video skit of 4 or 5 guys pretending to work on a valve. They were dressed out in anti-C's and respirators, etc. We (in the class) were asked "what are these guys doing wrong?" The very first answer (shouted out) was, "QC never hands the wrench to the mechanic."

Sure enough, the guy in the back with the clipboard could be seen passing over a wrench.
If feel like I have to defend my people.
If it wasn't for QA, something somewhere may not get specified precisely which means that something could go wrong.
Worse, somebody somewhere may notice.
 
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pinball1970 said:
If feel like I have to defend my people.
If it wasn't for QA, something somewhere may not get specified precisely which means that something could go wrong.
Worse, somebody somewhere may notice.
Oh believe me, I respect QA. I'll let you guess the event sequence that lead my opinion to change from "necessary evil" to "respect and gratitude"...
 
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  • #353
From @hutchphd

I thought this was very clever.

'Yes but you are creating a Maxwell's demon scenario: half the time the capacitor fluctuation goes the other way. The demon is in the detail.'
 
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Capitalization is important in science and engineering... :wink:
Vanadium 50 said:
M = mega, m = milli. 500 mb is half a bit.
 
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gentzen said:
Bohr is nearly unreadable, precisely because he tried to never say anything wrong.
 
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In response to a comment that what happens inside the event horizon cannot be observed...
Dale said:
No. They can be observed. Just not published in any journal outside the horizon.
 
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  • #357
Dale said:
Significant figures are like training wheels. They help you get started understanding the basic idea of measurement uncertainty, but at some point you take off the training wheels and deal with uncertainty the "right" way.
I know, that's two lines. But I like them.
 
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  • #359
pinball1970 said:
Category for pf one liners should be a trophy IMO. @Greg Bernhardt
An award for one-liner of the year?
 
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PeroK said:
An award for one-liner of the year?
Yes. I'm not sure how they would do it.
As this is specific probably nominate best three posts to all, then Greg does his stuff and presents us with a poll.
 
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pinball1970 said:
Yes. I'm not sure how they would do it.
As this is specific probably nominate best three posts to all, then Greg does his stuff and presents us with a poll.
We can help out in that. We, the members, would post in this thread the one-liners we like from other threads. Then the staff can pick out ("nominate") the ones with most number of reactions. There can be different scores for reactions: 👍 can be 1 point, while 😍 can be 2 points. Then we will vote as usual and pick the best one-liner of the year.

This will, then, be the only category where the ordinary members of PF will do the primary nominations.
 
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All this sounds like just more extra work for the moderators / Greg and with very little benefit.
 
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phinds said:
All this sounds like just more extra work for the moderators / Greg and with very little benefit.

In case it is not clear, I am calling this by @phinds a "great one-liner"
 
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pbuk said:
The best way to go faster is to watch people who are faster than you.
From a thread about sailboats, but applicable almost everywhere by substituting smarter, more knowledgeable, etc for faster.
 
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  • #365
gmax137 said:
In case it is not clear, I am calling this by @phinds a "great one-liner"
Yes Phinds reaction to my suggestion of introducing an award for best one liner.
Ironically he would have been in with a good shout for the category.
 
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Please do not ask me where this is from... :wink:

hutchphd said:
So don't make toast in the tub.
 
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Not posted on PF, but written by @mjc123 :
There is nothing magical about an octet. (Apart from Schubert's.)
 
  • #369
PeroK said:
dom_quixote said:
Infinite numeric intervals are permissible in mathematics. But infinite temporal intervals, eternity itself, is a matter of theology
Mathematics, thankfully, is not constrained by theology. Let $$t \in (-\infty, \infty)$$
 
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  • #370
Vanadium 50 said:

That is not actually making toast though. That is just throwing a toaster into the tub.
At least this guy made an attempt.FOUR slices no less. EDIT: On further inspection the device in your post was not a toaster, it was a Ghetto blaster.
 
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As many people have said about one thing or another here on PF, usually with more words,
Dale said:
Nature doesn’t provide definitions for words.
 
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phinds said:
As many people have said about one thing or another here on PF, usually with more words,
Dale said:
Nature doesn’t provide definitions for words.
Sauerei.
 
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Wrichik Basu said:
The most difficult part of constructing a perpetual motion machine is hiding the batteries.
I love that one :smile:
 
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  • #374
From the Natural Disaster thread:

Nugatory said:
Preparing for a hurricane is like being stalked by a turtle.
 
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  • #375
SammyS said:
@fresh_42 seemed happy with the the effort in this thread and he's not all that easy to please.
 
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(technically 2 lines) While addressing Elizabeth Holmes' biomedical company...

Vanadium 50 said:
Her idea worked. It was designed to separate people from their money - sort of wallet chromotography - the green parts go flying out, leaving the empty husk behind.
 
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  • #377
CrysPhys said:
OP: If you want to keep your options as open as possible, you should major in religious studies. When you need to make a decision, you can seek divine guidance. The evolution of this thread indicates that human guidance isn't sufficient for you.
@CrysPhys big oof.

I can relate to the OP of that thread though. Analysis Paralysis and whatnot.
 
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  • #378
jbriggs444 said:
"Should" butters no parsnips.
Love that. Is it a common aphorism? I have not heard it before.
 
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gmax137 said:
Love that. Is it a common aphorism? I have not heard it before.
Not common. But I heard "butters no parsnips" a few times during my youth.
 
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jbriggs444 said:
Not common. But I heard "butters no parsnips" a few times during my youth.
I think I recall my grandmother saying that in the 50's but have not heard it since.
 
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gmax137 said:
Love that. Is it a common aphorism? I have not heard it before.
Curry favour is the closest thing I think of.
 
  • #382
gmax137 said:
Love that. Is it a common aphorism? I have not heard it before.
At least I found it in a dictionary on a German translation website.
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No I got the wrong thing. In the UK you can metaphorically "butter someone up."
 
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pinball1970 said:
No I got the wrong thing. In the UK you can metaphorically "butter someone up."
Ahh, that makes more sense now. We "butter people up" on this side of the pond as well.
 
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