Comments on: I Wish I’d Said That

By: Fzplus

Fzplus — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 18:48:24 +0000

It’s a bad sign when the disorder in one’s office is best modelled as a gas.

By: astromcnaught

astromcnaught — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 15:52:44 +0000

“Eureka! the First fermionic office”

On finishing his latest holography proof, all of professor Blog’s office suddenly adheres to the walls.

By: astromcnaught

astromcnaught — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 15:43:22 +0000

Moments before his office smacked into the ground, professor Blog was still convinced the Earth had disappeared…

By: Clifford

Clifford — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 07:11:19 +0000

I’ll put an update link on the main post, Moi. The New Yorker seem to be moving their links around in a not entirely consistent way…. Whatever happens, it is competition number 18.

-cvj

By: Moi

Moi — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 05:27:04 +0000

Eeeek, it’s gone! Anybody have a copy? johncheeseREMOVE@THISgmail.NOSPAM.com

By: citrine

citrine — Mon, 12 Sep 2005 00:59:25 +0000

“So you think the laws of Thermodynamics are valid in Hell?”

By: samuel crane

samuel crane — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 17:55:30 +0000

He wondered if he’d ever again be able to trust the scientists and their “theories.”

By: ctenotrish

ctenotrish — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 17:30:14 +0000

I submitted this for a caption:

I knew gravity was just a theory!

By: erc

erc — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 17:16:52 +0000

Number 9. Definitely. Followed closely by number 1(i) though…

By: Pancho

Pancho — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 16:23:39 +0000

Well, if you just suspend belief for a moment…

By: Thomas Palm

Thomas Palm — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 16:02:26 +0000

“Everyone thought the full scale test of the equivalence principle was a big success”

By: Scott

Scott — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 15:26:41 +0000

9 has my vote

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 15:09:18 +0000

“Now of course we can neglect gravity….”

By: Keith Douglas

Keith Douglas — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 15:01:51 +0000

[re: the caption contest]

“Never in Professor Frink’s wildest dreams did he expect a macroscopic quantum fluctuation to temporarily reorient the gravitational field in his office.”

By: Suz

Suz — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 14:54:46 +0000

hrm… I just realized I got the “Second Pauli Principle” (also known as the “Pauli Effect”) wrong… I think that’s supposed to be that an experiment is bound to fail if Pauli is nearby. But there is a principle such as I described above; I just forgot the name.

By: Suz

Suz — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 14:50:54 +0000

“Then Dr. Jenkins experienced the ‘Second Pauli Principle:’ any physical law proposed by a theorist would be immediately applicable to his body.”

By: Pharyngula

Pharyngula — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 14:21:56 +0000

That is a great caption

“I think it’s important for them to hear both sides of the debate.”

Cosmic Variance has a larger version of this New Yorker cartoon, and I agree with Clifford: great caption. I should start pounding on a few church doors and demandin…

By: Danil

Danil — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 14:05:30 +0000

More evidence of intelligent falling….
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39512

By: Fyodor

Fyodor — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 10:22:38 +0000

“As I was telling my Eng.Lit.301 class, the laws of physics are nothing more than a construct of the capitalist patriarchy!”

By: Travis Garrett

Travis Garrett — Sat, 10 Sep 2005 04:38:01 +0000

“Hold that thought Mrs. Smith – I’ll have to call you back. I’m afraid my floor just got colder.”