More avoidance of work:

[puddingcat]

Excellent! I work in the same office as Tom Jones, and also (now) Richard Burton.

Cooool ;)

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[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

LMAO Hazel Knutt!!

My maths teacher at school was called Sue Kunc (pronounced "cunts") and her husband was Dick Kunc... they made something of a hooby out of being as outrageous as possible about the name. When I was still at school they lived on the corner of Shaftesbury Avenue and Longfallas Crescent.

To be fair to Dick his father was East European, so possibly didn't know the connotations...

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Did you ever study Kundt's Tube in physics? *That* was fun, expecially when everyone fancied the teacher :)

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

Oh, science has a WELTER of them - there's Koch, of course, and one mustn't forget Felix Wankel, and Fokke, the aerospace guy; then there's the nutritonists Bender & Bender, and the economist Nobbs...

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

And one will never forget the instruction:

"Excite Kundt's tube by rubbing the rod with a roisin rag"

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

Yes :) One had to cause Kundt's Tube to vibrate by rubbing it firmly yet smoothly.

I wish I'd been a scientific genius and had a unit of measurement named after me. I'm not sure what I'd want, though.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

Oh, the possibilities are endless LOL

It would have to be something plural so that science teachers would have to tell boys to do something to their Allcocks...

* always used to grin when the Economics teacher said "Right, everybody get your Nobbs out" *

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

I think I'd like something in the astrophys field. MegaAllcocks sounds so much better than milliAllcocks.

Best textbook name? "Living Things" by V Slaughter :)

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

MegaAllcocks sound fab!

The textbook I have most fond memories of was called "Physics is FUN!" and had those terrible sixties line drawings in... Some wag of a previous student had written "Is it BOLLOCKS!" on the title page...

[twisted-times.livejournal.com]

LMAO! That's a classic!


Going on a slight tangent here, a certain book one year was bestowed the award for "The dullest title for a work of non-fiction." Said volume was entitled "The History of the Concrete Roofing Tile." :p

[twisted-times.livejournal.com]

Fundamental rule of Physics #1 - you usually only ever get a fundamental unit of measurement or constant named after you in you've got a very silly name. Eg., Plank's constant, the Faraday, the Barn, Boyle's law...

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

Well, the original name will most likely be pronounced along the lines of "koontz" so it's not that bad.

I went to school with someone called "Kalbskopf" (calve's head) and "Brühschwein" (scalded/scalding pig) is not uncommon in the area I come from.

[puddingcat.livejournal.com]

See, that would have made a difference at the time (southern accents) but up here, not so much.

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

That's true. Heh.

[miss-s-b.livejournal.com]

"koontz" would be pronounced "cunts" around here... We have very short short vowels in Yorkshire (or Yo'ksher)

[twisted-times.livejournal.com]

I love that icon!

[twisted-times.livejournal.com]

My mother was in the same class as a girl called Jennifer Onions.