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I stumbled this strip and rearranged the strip so that it is viewable in this blog.

Muon?  What on earth is that?  If god exist, he’s a joker.

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Just saw this joke from Economics Jokes via Pure Pedantry.

Why God Never Received Tenure at the University

1. He had only one major publication.
2. And it was in Hebrew.
3. And it had no cited references.
4. And it wasn’t published in a refereed journal or even submitted for peer review.
5. And some even doubt he wrote it himself.
6. It may be true that he created the world but what has he done since?
7. His cooperative efforts have been quite limited.
8. The scientific community has had a very rough time trying to replicate his results.
9. He never applied to the Ethics Board for permission to use human subjects.
10. When one experiment went awry, he tried to cover it up by drowning the subjects.
11. When subjects didn’t behave as predicted, he often punished them, or just deleted them from the sample.
12. He rarely came to class, just told students to read the book.
13. He had his son teach the class.
14. He expelled his first two students for learning.
15. Although there were only ten requirements, most students failed his tests.
16. His office hours were infrequent and usually held on a mountaintop.

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From 2007 April Reader’s Digest:

Because he’s a chemist and I’m a personal trainer, my fiance and I don’t always agree about what eating healthy means.  I prefer foods with less fat and fewer calories while he watches out for chemicals and additives.

We were grocery shopping one day and I asked him to go and get some butter.

“Which kind,” he asked, “cancer or heart attack?”

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From October 2007’s Reader’s Digest.

Scientists have identified a food that, once digested, can have negative effects on people’s health that last for decades, including mood-swings in women, psychotic episodes in men and severe depression in both.

It’s called wedding cake.

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From September 2007 Reader’s Digest:

Do you know why they’re now using lawyers instead of rats for scientific experiments? Because:

1. There are many more lawyers than there are rats;
2. There is no danger of forming any attachment to the lawyers;
3. There are certain things that even rats won’t do.

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Here’s another joke from October 2007’s Reader’s Digest.

One evening my sister, Jane, and her husband were entertaining guests while their kids did their homework upstairs. During dinner, eight-year-old Jeff appeared at the table. “Mum,” he whispered, trying not to be noticed.

“What is it, honey?”

“I need some help with my science experiment,” he said, handing Jane a marker and a piece of paper.

“What’s this for?”

“I need to draw a conclusion,” Jeff said seriously, “but I don’t know what one looks like.”

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Just read this from December 2007 Reader’s Digest.

Too much information is not always a good thing. I was at a drugstore trying to decide between two types of rubbing alcohol. Both appeared to be the same, so I called my husband, a chemical engineer. “What’s the difference between isopropyl rubbing alcohol and ethyl rubbing alcohol?” I asked.

“Easy,” he said. “One carbon atom.”

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