On Mon, 25 Feb 2008 18:54:00 GMT, throopw@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Wayne Throop) wrote:
>: CharlesRCaplan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>: I really think we need to update that saying. Rocket Science isn't
>: really the hardest science out there anymore. I vote we all start
>: saying "it's not Quantum Mechanics" instead of "It's not Rocket
>: Science" from now on.
>
>Ah, but then you'll have the smarty-alecs claiming QM is easy, it's
>only string theory that gets hard. And then...
>
>Eh. Just switch modifiers on the two paradigms of difficulty,
>and say "rocket surgery" or "brain science".
>
>On the down side, this might confuse Kim Possible, who's father and
>mother are a rocket scientist and a brain surgeon, respectively.
I used to have a friend who was a chemist and whose father was a
neurosurgeon. When the son got a job at a rocket propulsion lab,
the very proud mother did start referring to the pair of men in
her life in the obvious, if a bit cliched, fa****on.
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