Advice from Old PeopleSometimes, just sometimes, old people say something worth listening to. Ok, so it's like picking the needle out of a whole haystack of mis-remembered war stories, but those gems should be celebrated.
Tell us something worthwhile an old-type person has told you.
Note, we're leaving the definition of old up to you, you smooth-skinned youngsters.
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chthonic, Thu 19 Jun 2008, 16:16)
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Only one week late...I didn't have any good innuendos last week, but last night I was reading about xenotransplantation - the possibility of using organs from GM pigs in humans. One of the worries that has been mooted in relation to this is the possibility of infection from Porcine Endogenous Retroviruses. These things have an acronym.
Thus, some people worry about the danger to human welfare posed by active PERVs.
Oh, yes. The person who wrote about this is probably older than I - so the advice would be to beware of PERVs. I plan to take this into account.
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Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Tue 24 Jun 2008, 9:54,
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Cheers!First giggle of the day - I work in a science and genetox field so this may do the rounds today.
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Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Tue 24 Jun 2008, 9:58,
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on the matter of science related acronymsI work in nanotoxicology and on my desk I have a research paper studying Copper Nanotubes or CuNT's as they refer to them throughout the paper.
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my mategot the word 'minge' into a Nature paper. Well, he used the site/sample code 'MNG'.
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crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Tue 24 Jun 2008, 10:05,
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@CHCBMy brain would have read it as 'mong'.
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Boss Keloid Got your mother's maiden name tattooed on my arm, Tue 24 Jun 2008, 10:08,
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numbers gamebeing a maths bod, when i do spreadsheet analysis work of the tender bids i receive i often end up shortening the title.
My folders are littered with "Anal5543.xls" "AnalBigProject.xls" "AnalBob.xls"
Last week i accidentally sent this to our Pro-vice chancellor and couldn't pull the email back.....
...........still waiting for someone else to notice.....
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bazza van der trance , ooh baby baby, baby baby. Get up on this., Tue 24 Jun 2008, 10:14,
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