Comments on: Bawdy strumpets

By: Supersymmetry Closer To Home | Cosmic Variance

Supersymmetry Closer To Home | Cosmic Variance — Mon, 12 Jun 2006 23:56:58 +0000

[...] I wonder if there’ll be any singing and dancing, as happened last year? I do hope we get called Bawdy Strumpets again! [...]

By: Cygnus

Cygnus — Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:56:09 +0000

Just wondering if you guys have seen the reply to that post in the same thread

;the molecules are forced together by heat /own weight .the heat is the outer influence of radiation [light] which increases the bond [em]of the hydrogen and oxygen elements. as the outer influence recedes the molecules take a organized lattice structure contengent of its own emf geometry.so the elctromagnetic field springs out to this lattice structure at the path to least resistance. geometry of a magnetic field doesnt always require outer energy to expand .

It just made me laugh out aloud, probably the best response I can imagine to such a post.

By: Risa

Risa — Wed, 27 Jul 2005 04:17:16 +0000

I really can’t remember ever being called a name as lovely as bawdy strumpets.

By: Aaron

Aaron — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 23:02:27 +0000

“Heavy flavor physics” would be an excellent name for a rock band.

By: JoAnne

JoAnne — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 22:09:32 +0000

From now on I promise to unchain my graduate students for regular feeding times – twice a week.

On the thread of whether this is a hoax, I note that the experimental group at CalTech pioneered the current heavy flavor physics program at SLAC. Ah – I foresee a post on B physics in my near future…

Okay, I’m working my way from a comment to a real posting.

By: JMC

JMC — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 15:38:31 +0000

Wow! How are scientists to reach out to the general public when they are so harshly scrutinized by each other? Can’t theorist and experimentalits just get along and sing Kumbaya around the campfire? jk. But really I love this blogsite and all the conversations it has inspired. I’m usually reluctant to post comments. However, the ‘Bawdy Strumpets’ rant was so methodically critical and unfair I couldn’t maintain my reticence. So in a sense the absurd name-calling was needed. Now you can hear from the greater majority of us who feel ‘CosmicVariance’ is a phenomenal blog with a wonderful mix of qualified and educated contributors! kumbaya…

By: Clifford

Clifford — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 13:31:40 +0000

So you're reading Harry Potter rather than doing last-minute tinkering with your General Relativity Primer? I see.... -cvj

By: Filter

Filter — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:19:47 +0000

Hi, I’m from Italy. Could somebody explain to me what the difference is between a strumpet and a prostitute, please. If there is no difference, as I thought, then I’d have to suppose that that guy can’t find more than 2 concepts when he wants to write a 3-word phrase.

By: Athena

Athena — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 12:19:21 +0000

Oh my. Duped, misled by the siren song of physics and the bright new blog — I feel so, so…dirty. Gluttonous.

I feasted on (what I thought was) intellectual discourse and drank heartily the wine of witty repartee. What to do when someone wiser points out the cerebral fodder is poppycock!

Well, if lovin’ you is wrong, I don’t wanna be right. Guess I’m going to hell in a handbasket. Goodness gracious! ; )

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:44:43 +0000

After all the work we put into deciding the name of the blog and this one was right there for the taking! I mean, sure, our banner is pretty, but wouldn’t is be better if it was a cartoon of the five of us rolling in a big pile of cash while experimentalists wait on us with huge platters of caviar?

Still can’t actually figure out if it’s a joke, although the mixing of upper case and lower case characters makes me think Fzplus is right.