LOLScience, now?

Now that one made me chuckle.

Here, kitty kitty. I have a box, a geiger counter, and some cyanide for you.

All in the name of science, right PZ?

"Lolcats can has science"? Old news.

I also like this one, from a purely Popperian perspective.

Campbell & Reese...heh!

Oh, those physicists, always thinking they're better than biologists because they use math for everything.

Here, kitty kitty. I have a box, a geiger counter, and some cyanide for you.

Im in ur bocks pruvin schrodinger rong

I'm sorry but I just don't get all this lolcats stuff. Where did it come from? Do I have to be high to get it?

"I'm in ur box.... maybe."

All bright cats know that math isn't a science, it's a tool of science, and that sitting on a biology book is warm and comforting compared to the cold mechanical workings of a physics text. Cats only hang around physicists because they're dull,quiet, and have no friends. Cats like to sleep after all.

http://www.wesh.com/news/14796270/detail.html

Check it out: image of Frank Zappa appears in Florida man's X-ray.

[hat tip to Stunt Woman]

Steve #8,

It helps.

I don't know, PZ, some of these are actually funny.

Geologists are too abrasive and intrusive to have a sense of humor, and it takes ages for them to tell a joke.

Easy, there, cowboy. It's just that our humor is, well, timeless. In a relative sense, anyway.

So, here's one: In one of our intro labs, the students have to identify a few fossils, including some nice casts of Isotelus (too rare to hand out complete ones). I end up pointing out that Isotelus is the official state fossil of Ohio.

After the incredulity passes ("They have a state fossil?"), I am invariably asked what is the state fossil of North Carolina. And I tell them.

Jesse Helms.

http://archaeoporn.wordpress.com/2007/12/07/lolcompass/

Future Snowball Jr.!

My cat sits on my history books. But she did try to turn a paleaontology book into brail. Gee. A modern cat chewing up a book about Triassic Gorgons. Why didn't I get a photo of it?

Yeah, I got something to say to Physics Cat too:
"Bite me."
(not ...literally)

"Geologists are too abrasive and intrusive to have a sense of humor, and it takes ages for them to tell a joke."

Wow, geology humor at Pharyngula. Will wonders never cease?

IM IN UR BOX, PROVIN SHRODINGER WRONG.

HAHAHAHA! My dad (a geologist) saw this before me and we had a chuckle. I am addicted to LOLcats...this makes my little future abrasive and intrusive (heh heh, you are a funny man) geologist heart swell two sizes too large.

Erwin Schrodinger's wife: What have you done to the cat? It looks half dead!

Heisenberg wuz here... probably.

Do all biologists have a math inferiority complex or is it just PZ?

Now I can join the proud ranks of Pharyngula readers who have sprayed their computer monitors with their beverage of choice.

Except since I'm home sick, my beverage of choice was theraflu.

Another fun Schrodinger one...

Don't biologists get to claim Schrodinger as one of their own? He wrote a book entitled, WHAT IS LIFE? after all.

I used to be friends with a physicist. He was pretty quiet, but not dull. I really have to recommend sharing certain leisure activities with people who have truly advanced knowledge of angles, trajectories, force, mass, and acceleration. :)

I love my cat, but he's no scientist. He hasn't quite got the concept of "inertia" down, yet. My evidence for that claim is the number of times he has come barrelling through the kitchen at high speed, forgetting to notice that it takes a long time to stop on a vinyl-tile floor, and has thereby run headlong into the fridge, skidding all the way. (Ooh, that's gotta hurt!)

I am truly going to kill that cat.

Or maybe not. Creationists might then say 'Ooooh, those evil atheist Darwinists kill cats!!1one!!1!'

Taking pictures like this one is a favorite passtime of the geologists I've met. They like to have "before" photos to send to CNN.

he's no scientist. He hasn't quite got the concept of "inertia" down, yet.

Heh. Mine sure aren't either. I have a dopey little calico cat that's having trouble understanding the bath tub isn't always empty.

It's discrimination I tell you!

Hey, I'm kinda addicted to http://icanhascheezburger.com/

My nieces and I spent hours looking at them and cracking each other up.

by the way, what the hell is this thing?
http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/funny-monkies-hel…

Uh, that should be "kitteh, kitteh."

craig: looks like a juvenile tamarin of some sort.

If no one sees you kill the cat, is it still dead?

I can understand biologists fear of math......Squid are impossible to deal with in sphereical coordinates.

She's my cat.
I captioned the picture.
I'm not a physicist, I'm currently waffling between bio and chem.

She's thrilled to be famous. :)

Dave@19: Was that really humor...? Just because all of our faults are normal...

Being married to a physicist *rocks.* Thrust, momentum, capacitance, frequency response, rise time . . . oh yeah!

Hey, PZ, I have a question. Why is it that Geology is such a great target for puns, as you pointed out in the comment? We found it easy to go on for weeks on flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/dryodora/1573674873/

diz mai squidz

On a related note, I used this as a forum signature image for a while. ^.^

Re Akyroth's sig:

Perhaps it was child abuse, but our kids used to be fond of repeating what we told them about our new kitchen counters: "Some people take them for granite, but they are really gneiss." (Though we later decided that they were actually pegmatite.)

I personally think that geology makes for really schist jokes.

Yeah, at least a biologist can tell you whether the cat's dead or not.

Craig (#32):
It looks like a pygmy marmoset, perhaps a baby.
One of the side effects of a double major is that you can appreciate both the geology humor and the biology humor. You can also have a variety of science stuff on your web page. Yes, some of it has to be redone because it hasn't aged gracefully, some of that stuff has been up for almost twelve years now. No comments, please.
For the record though, I really liked the mafic/intermediate/felsic cats.

It's discrimination I tell you!

Oh no, it isn't! It could be a form of natural selection (bias) perhaps though.

Biology pwned by Physics Cat

I sent the lolcats page to my dad, a geology professor -- too many good geology ones not to! I don't know if he'll get it, but I hope he passes them on to his students, who are sure to be conversant in LOL.

I think someone got inspired by PZ:

http://icanhascheezburger.com/2007/12/07/diz-mai-squidz-dun-worry-hez-c…

A geologist friend told me that rocks were smarter than cats because when you kick a rock it has the sense to go away.

Hard, eh? This metaphor is dead, guys. Give it up. The double entendre (once defined by the Lampoon as 'talking dirty') just doesn't work anymore-- biology is just as difficult, and (given the number of possible string theories) maybe a lot firmer too.

one I'd like to see:
"I haz calibrate your instrument"

And, of course cdesign proponentsists always have:
"Science iz hard... goddidit ."

I had a friend who lent me his first year physics text on the explicit instructions not to alter its mint condition state.
I was doing homework and my orange cat was curled up beside the open book and snoozing while I did my exercises.
I went to the can and I came back in about two minutes. The cat was still curled up in the same position.
I sat down again and went to read from the text. The pages had been shredded about ten deep on one side.
That cat didn't like physics books, in any event. Sure was sneaky, though.

My friend laughed. He is a good shit, a physicist no less.

Physiks cat sez...

"Biologgie iz benith me."

It's cute when biologists pretend to understand quantum mechanics.

Physiks cat sez...

"Biologgie iz benith me."

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