Saw this on my buddy Burt Humburg's Facebook page. He saw a kid in Ann Arbor walking around with a t-shirt that said:
If I were an enzyme, I'd be DNA Helicase so I could unzip your genes.
Brilliant!
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Posted on: September 6, 2009 9:09 AM, by Ed Brayton
Saw this on my buddy Burt Humburg's Facebook page. He saw a kid in Ann Arbor walking around with a t-shirt that said:
If I were an enzyme, I'd be DNA Helicase so I could unzip your genes.
Brilliant!
Comments
I'm gonna use that one.
(This, of course, would explain why I'm still single at the age of 40.)
Posted by: David C. Brayton | September 6, 2009 12:06 PM
Best is:
"I wish I was your derivative so I could lie tangent to your curves."
Posted by: Anon | September 6, 2009 12:53 PM
harrumph...Seems like something that is likely to get you slapped if you actually said it to someone you just met.
Posted by: Shawn Smith | September 6, 2009 1:59 PM
I wish I was your second derivative, so I could fill all your concavities.
Now that'll get you slapped.
Posted by: cbeck | September 6, 2009 2:19 PM
Said the protein to the drug: "I like it in my substrate binding site, but you can go in my allosteric site, too."
Posted by: Chuck | September 7, 2009 12:51 AM
I got a question right on my medical school board exams because of that joke. Not kidding.
Posted by: MomTFH | September 7, 2009 11:56 AM
(Sorry for the double post)
Oh, and tell your buddy there is an entire Facebook group dedicated to that joke he can join.
My favorite biochemistry humor involved a strip club (hypothetical only, of course) that my medical school classmate and I wanted to open called the TATA Box.
Posted by: MomTFH | September 7, 2009 11:59 AM
If yo mama were a data structure, she'd be a deque, 'cause she allows rapid insertion at both ends.
Posted by: NBarnes | September 7, 2009 12:08 PM
Mr Barnes - As an obscure & hopeless pick-up line, you hit the nerdy jackpot! (Still LOLed though!)
Personally, I'd crash a Betazoid wedding, go up to one of the bridesmaids and say "You know what's on my mind!" :) - DJ
Posted by: DingoJack | September 7, 2009 12:55 PM