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]

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...