Great one-liners from PF members

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In summary: And to obtain just one arsenic atom, you would need to buy 285 million one ounce bottles!There's also the fact that anyone prescribing homeopathic medicine should be required to accept homeopathic payment which of course is an empty envelope that... doesn't really exist.
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All I can say is that you had to be there...

Vanadium 50 said:
But officer....I was only going 0.577c!
 
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  • #562
topsquark said:
If someone comes on and tries to sell us a cold fusion water heater, then it's off to "banned camp."
 
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  • #563
Dale said:
Also, when people ask for clarification please just clarify without the guessing games. We are physicists not psychics.
(My emphasis.)

I checked the archives. Dale has used this phrase a few times before, but it's apt.
 
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  • #564
Paraphrasing Arthur C. Clarke:
PeterDonis said:
sufficiently advanced cluelessness is indistinguishable from trolling.
 
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  • #565
BvU said:
Can you please read your post and agree that telepathy is required to make sense of it ?
:bow:
 
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  • #566
And I didn't even get the message across ! :

Sam Groves said:
What do you mean?

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  • #567
DaveC426913 said:
But this seems like it's kind of bifurcating bunnies at this point.
Love it!
 
  • #568
Vanadium again

"Numerology is not science. And approximate numerology is not even numerology"
 
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  • #569
gmax137 said:
I think this is a really good point.

You know those posts, where the student is asking, 'but why is the work mgh?' -- I always think, "carry shingles up to the roofers for a week and then get back to me."

In a thread about teaching basic STEM concepts. Poster @Dr Transport mentioned that students can’t understand basic concepts because they lack hands on experience. I think manual labor could definitely help in cultivating physics intuition.
 
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  • #570
V50 strikes again:

"Evolution works on the four F's - fight, flight, feeding and reproduction."
 
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  • #571
And to think I wasn't even a candidate for the humor award...or the biology award!

Sadly, I can only take credit for remembering it, not for coining it.
 
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  • #572
Vanadium 50 said:
And to think I wasn't even a candidate for the humor award...or the biology award!
I guess the joke's on you!
 
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  • #573
From a thread in the Relativity forum where a user is asking for people's opinions of what happens to an object as it falls into a Black Hole...

Vanadium 50 said:
Mathematics is not opinion. "Chunky peanut butter is better than smooth peanut butter" is an opinion.
 
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  • #574
Technically not a one-liner since I used a period. think a semicolon or even a full colon would be better?
 
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Vanadium 50 said:
Technically not a one-liner since I used a period. think a semicolon or even a full colon would be better?
Two sentences. But only one line. On my screen anyway.
 
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  • #576
Vanadium 50 said:
Technically not a one-liner since I used a period. think a semicolon or even a full colon would be better?
A semicolon works of course. But we've been taking a bit of artistic license in this thread for a while now. After all, your quote did technically fit on one line... :wink:

(but that's just my opinion...)
 
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  • #577
Looks like this is becoming the Vanadium 50 quotes thread.
 
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  • #578
BillTre said:
Looks like this is becoming the Vanadium 50 quotes thread.

You’re not wrong. He is clever and funny.
 
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BillTre said:
Looks like this is becoming the Vanadium 50 quotes thread.
Okay, let's step it up people! We got this! :wink:
 
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berkeman said:
Okay, let's step it up people! We got this! :wink:
Say something clever.
 
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BillTre said:
Say something clever.
Hey, that all fit on one line, right? :smile:
 
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BillTre said:
Say something clever.
Something clever.
 
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vanhees71 said:
Maybe it's time to leave the realm of wordy speculations and do some math
 
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Vanadium 50 said:
And to think I wasn't even a candidate for the humor award...or the biology award!

Sadly, I can only take credit for remembering it, not for coining it.
And I was ..even though I don't think anyone has cited a one liner from me in 583 posts.
I'll check and feedback.
 
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Still one of my favourites from Bill

robins thomas said:
What is benefits of STEM Learning Education for kids?
@BillTre. 'So they can learn STEM stuff.'
 
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  • #586
Here you go.
pinball1970 said:
even though I don't think anyone has cited a one liner from me in 583 posts.
 
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pinball1970 said:
And I was ..even though I don't think anyone has cited a one liner from me in 583 posts.
I'll check and feedback.
I find it hard to believe that in nearly 2500 posts you haven't said anything noteworthy!
 
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PeroK said:
I find it hard to believe that in nearly 2500 posts you haven't said anything noteworthy!
I know in my heart that I am funny.

 
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  • #589
Ha. I had forgotten that guy. He was hilariously un-funny.
 
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  • #590
Frabjous said:
Here you go.
No sympathy quotes please, that is salt in the wound.
 
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phinds said:
Ha. I had forgotten that guy. He was hilariously un-funny.
Wow he died 2006. Great parts in the Godfather, City Slickers, Harry met Sally and others. I'll leave it there, off topic and all.
Bruno Kirby. Brilliant.
EDIT. Spinal tap cab driver too.
 
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  • #592
Frabjous said:
Waffling is not bravery.
 
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From a thread where a user is asking about calculating the airflow needed to levitate a small ball...

Baluncore said:
A physicist, capable of solving the problem without experiment, will cost you several hair-driers or blowers per hour.
 
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  • #594
Dale said:
[... geometrized units are ...] convenient for doing general relativity but less convenient for buying bacon ...
 
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  • #595
At the time I literally couldn’t think of any other product that you buy by weight
 
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