Accidental innuendoFreddy Woo writes, "A woman I used to work with once walked into a car workshop to get her windscreen replaced, and uttered the immortal line, "Have you seen the size of my crack?"
What innuendos have you accidentally walked into? Are you a 1970s Carry On film character?
Extra points for the inappropriateness of the context
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chthonic, Thu 12 Jun 2008, 12:05)
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Scientists are immature, stop me when you get sick of these (pt.5)The instrument to which I keep referring contains an interferometer*, which is kept in a stiff metal box to protect it in flight. In order to prevent vibrations from affecting the delicate bits inside, the thing has to be evacuated.
This box is currently being pumped on an optical bench in the lab.
*Fnar, fnarr, fnaar. Can anybody suggest a scientific instrument with a more dubious name? EDIT: Yes, I can. I just remembered it's a dual-input interferometer!
(, Thu 12 Jun 2008, 15:33, 4 replies)
It wasn't made byWayne-Kerr was it?
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K2k6 has a proper job these days, Thu 12 Jun 2008, 15:49,
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Sadly not,but a friend of mine was using one of Wayne Kerr's multimeters last year. I can only presume Mr Kerr started his business all by himself, and didn't try to get his bank manager involved with a name like that...
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you'll be telling meyou've never used a pump-probe laser system next...
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No, but my girlfriend has......she claims her optical pumping is quite something.
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