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Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :

Acetylseryltyrosylserylisoleucylthreonylserylprolylserylglutaminylphenylalanylvalylphenylalanylleucyl-
serylserylvalyltryptophylalanylaspartylprolylisoleucylglutamylleucylleucylasparaginylvalylcysteinyl-
threonylserylserylleucylglycylasparaginylglutaminylphenylalanylglutaminylthreonylglutaminylglutaminyl-
alanylarginylthreonylthreonylglutaminylvalylglutaminylglutaminylphenylalanylserylglutaminylvalyl-
tryptophyllysylprolylphenylalanylprolylglutaminylserylthreonylvalylarginylphenylalanylprolylglycyl-
aspartylvalyltyrosyllysylvalyltyrosylarginyltyrosylasparaginylalanylvalylleucylaspartylprolylleucyl-
isoleucylthreonylalanylleucylleucylglycylthreonylphenylalanylaspartylthreonylarginylasparaginylarginyl-
isoleucylisoleucylglutamylvalylglutamylasparaginylglutaminylglutaminylserylprolylthreonylthreonylalanyl-
glutamylthreonylleucylaspartylalanylthreonylarginylarginylvalylaspartylaspartylalanylthreonylvalyl-
alanylisoleucylarginylserylalanylasparaginylisoleucylasparaginylleucylvalylasparaginylglutamylleucyl-
valylarginylglycylthreonylglycylleucyltyrosylasparaginylglutaminylasparaginylthreonylphenylalanylglutamyl-
serylmethionylserylglycylleucylvalyltryptophylthreonylserylalanylprolylalanylserine is the first chemical to have a longer name than its formula. It is also called (colloquially) Tobacco Mosaic Virus, Dahlemense Strain.

<Edited for format --PJ>

[ April 28, 2005, 11:54 AM: Message edited by: Papa Janitor ]

Posted by quidscribis (Member # 5124) on :

Should I check for spelling errors? [Dont Know]

Posted by Mike (Member # 55) on :

quote:
... is the first chemical to have a longer name than its formula.

What exactly does this mean? Aren't there scads of chemicals whose names are longer than their formulas?

Posted by KarlEd (Member # 571) on :

Like, for instance "water" vs. "h20"

Or if you don't like to call "water" a "chemical" how about "Sulfuric Acid" vs "h2so4"?

[ April 28, 2005, 11:52 AM: Message edited by: KarlEd ]

Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :

How about "Hydrogen" versus "H"?

Posted by rivka (Member # 4859) on :

Hydrogen found alone is always diatomic. But "hydrogen" is longer than H2 as well. [Wink]

Posted by Bob the Lawyer (Member # 3278) on :

What you've posted here is actually just a string of amino acids, and not a particularly long one either. Compared to their names a protein's chemical structure will almost always be shorter (some monomers may have longer chemical structures, but I don't feel like checking).

Given that this is just a protein, that would not be its common name. Perhaps this protein is the key modification in that strain, but there's a difference between the name of an organism and the name of a protein.

So you're wrong on both accounts. Sorry.

Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :

I did not mean that literally! Rather, I was making a humorous (but not a literal) comment regarding the occasional length of chemical formulas. Not that I found a better system, but that's how it is!

Eeesh! My humour is as understood as Annie's.

JH

Posted by Mike (Member # 55) on :

These chemicals are dangerous, all right. [Eek!]

Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :

Annie has humor?

quote:
Hydrogen found alone is always diatomic.

Well then it's not really alone, now is it....

Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :

It depends on whether you believe an element can find true long-term love with the same element or if they're just fooling themselves.

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

*sings* Everybody's got something to hi-ide, 'cept for me and my monkey...

Posted by katharina (Member # 827) on :

I love it when Bobble flashes that brain of his.

Posted by TMedina (Member # 6649) on :

Love, like hydrogen always makes you want to keep an ion.

-Trevor

Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :

quote:
Everybody's got something to hi-ide, 'cept for me and my monkey...

What about the better Beatles' songs? Say... "The Long and Winding Road", "And I Love Her", and "Golden Slumbers", or their absolute best - "I'm looking Through you"? If you want the one you posted, how about "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?"? (on the White Album.)

JH

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

I don't particularly like that song more than others, I was just quoting. [Razz]

As for the songs you mentioned:

quote:
"The Long and Winding Road", "And I Love Her", and "Golden Slumbers", or their absolute best - "I'm looking Through you"? If you want the one you posted, how about "Why Don't We Do It in the Road?"? (on the White Album.)

I'm not a huge fan of "The Long and Winding Road". "And I Love Her" is good, but not my favorite. "Golden Slumbers" was actually originally a slave "croon", used to put the master's babies to sleep. I've found it in multiple collections. "I'm Looking Through You" may be your favorite, but I think musically and poetically, not their best. "Why Don't We Do It In the Road" is one of the few Beatles songs I'd really rather not listen to.

You didn't mention one of my favorites. So there. [Taunt]

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

Oh, and don't try to quote Beatles songs at me. I've been listening to them since before I was born; my dad is fairly obssessed, and from the time I could talk (about 9 months), I was singing Beatles songs with him. I was dancing to them before I could walk. So I can easily match you, if not beat you. [Taunt]

[ April 28, 2005, 04:38 PM: Message edited by: ketchupqueen ]

Posted by Mike (Member # 55) on :

The whole second side of Abbey Road. That's all I have to say about that.

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

To clarify: my comments weere not directed at anyone who has been a fan longer than 22 years. You can probably kick my behind. Just people younger than I. [Wink]

Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :

Why, thanks for getting at my age again. But you're the second person I know or have spoken to who heard of "I'm Looking Through You".

So what's your style, kq? Maybe... "Helter Skelter", "Please Please Me", "Revolution 9" and "All Together Now"? Or "For No One", "Octopus's Garden" and "Hey Bulldog"?

[ April 28, 2005, 05:11 PM: Message edited by: Jonathan Howard ]

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

You got two of my favorites, although none that I consider the best-written or best-performed.

Hee, hee, this is kind of like "Mastermind". [Big Grin]

It wasn't a crack at your age. I was just saying I have a couple of years on you. [Wink]

Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :

I've been a fan for longer than 22 years, and I've heard of "I'm Looking Through You," and I know all the words and chords to it.

And some of my favorites are "If I Fell" and "You're Gonna Lose That Girl" (for the voice harmony), "And Your Bird Can Sing" (for the guitar harmony), "You Know My Name (Look Up The Number)" (for the weird), and "The End" (for the drum solo). I despise "Yellow Submarine."

--Pop

Posted by twinky (Member # 693) on :

quote:
I love it when Bobble flashes that brain of his.

I know! Gives me the vapours... *swoon*

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

Ooh, extra points to anyone who can guess the song that my dad programmed me to fall asleep when I heard it as a baby, that used to make me crash with my head in my dessert at the table, and that still makes me yawny. [Big Grin]

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

Pop, we share a favorite. [Smile]

Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :

Across the Universe?

*Jai Guru Deva Om* *Jai Guru Deva Om* Zzzz....

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

Nope.

Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :

Komm, Gib Mir Deine Hand or Sie Liebt Dich? (These are my last guesses, as I don't like guessing stuff, and even less like not being able to guess stuff.)

Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :

"Good Night" (right title?) or "Cry, Baby, Cry"?

Posted by Altáriël of Dorthonion (Member # 6473) on :

Woot. Google actually gave results for this word.

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

JH has it! "Good Night" knocks me right out, having been programmed when I was an insomniac infant.

The "dessert" comment was a clue; it's at the very end of the White Album. [Wink]

Anyone using this knowledge for evil will be destroyed.

Posted by Papa Moose (Member # 1992) on :

"Good Night"? Where's the fun in that? "Wild Honey Pie" would've been cool.

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

Hey, he was sleep-deprived with his first child. He was walking and singing, and that's the only song that popped into his head.

Posted by ketchupqueen (Member # 6877) on :

In fact, that's why Emma gets sleepy to "There is a Fountain".

Posted by Jonathan Howard (Member # 6934) on :

<Removed too-extensive copyrighted lyrics. --PJ>

[ April 28, 2005, 09:09 PM: Message edited by: Papa Janitor ]