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Blayne Bradley
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http://xkcd.com/c18.html

im not sure if I get the joke....
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wow, I actually got that joke. Yay me!
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James Tiberius Kirk
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Sn is the chemical symbol for tin.

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

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

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vonk
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I think I heard a whiff about two inches above me when I read that joke.
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Scott R
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I got it!

:beams:

I got a science oriented joke! w00t!
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Blayne Bradley
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I even looked up tin in wikipedia and didnt notice that Sn+apple = Snapple [Frown]
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Boris
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In answer to your question, Blayne, Tin is not funny. It has no sense of humor. It is, in fact, inanimate.
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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.)
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