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Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :

http://xkcd.com/c18.html

im not sure if I get the joke....

Posted by sarcasticmuppet (Member # 5035) on :

wow, I actually got that joke. Yay me!

Posted by James Tiberius Kirk (Member # 2832) on :

Sn is the chemical symbol for tin.

So Snapple = Sn-apple = Tin apple. Get it?

--j_k

Posted by TheTick (Member # 2883) on :

Tin - sn on the Periodic table. So, Snapple - Tin Apple. Not that it will be funny now that it was explained. [Wink]

edit: simu-ninja'd

Posted by vonk (Member # 9027) on :

I think I heard a whiff about two inches above me when I read that joke.

Posted by Scott R (Member # 567) on :

I got it!

:beams:

I got a science oriented joke! w00t!

Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :

I even looked up tin in wikipedia and didnt notice that Sn+apple = Snapple [Frown]

Posted by Boris (Member # 6935) on :

In answer to your question, Blayne, Tin is not funny. It has no sense of humor. It is, in fact, inanimate.

Posted by HollowEarth (Member # 2586) on :

Some other xkcd science jokes.

http://www.xkcd.com/c21.html
http://www.xkcd.com/c26.html
http://www.xkcd.com/c45.html
http://www.xkcd.com/c171.html
http://www.xkcd.com/c179.html

Last term trying to explain a Fourier series to one of my students I received basically the same response as in that last one. (Frankly I don't understand why we have to do particle-in-a-box with freshman, and certainly we could leave out a fair bit of the other quantum weirdness without loss to a freshman chemistry course.)