I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
― Robert McCloskey (1914-2003), Author of Make Way For Ducklings
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madame scientist's not-so-mad musings 
“If you can’t convince them, confuse them.” Harry S. Truman 🙂
Who’s on first?
Rajini…U convinced & m confused.. :)))
such sweet foto.
Jaz Emminger ?? “Sometimes I’m confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn’t obvious…”-M. Stipe.
He who stand on toilet, high on pot.
Another cute one bites the dust: Energizer bunny arrested, charged with battery.
When everything’s coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane
His only defence was to rabbit on and on and on
All generalizations are false, including this one.
All falsehoods are generalisations, including this one?
Every time it works you are 70% surprised.
Five out of four people won’t get that math, James Tyler 😦
Constipated people don’t give a crap.
Especially those of us for whom maths is, logically, a plural Rajini Rao
Why do Americans abbreviate mathematics to maths?
The same reason we abbreviate obese to buffet.
And, amongst other things, president to bush?
It’s a singular habit, true Nobilangelo Ceramalus !
We haven’t voted in a female yet…
It needs to multiply Rajini Rao
Quick, duck, they’re cracking yolks!
Eggzactly
We are the undivided, the United States.
Which invented G+
Plussers must all use maths…
So the yolks on you? 🙂
You’re egging me on…
Eggsactly.
Ah snap…it was already used. LOL
I’m shell-shocked down here.
You guys are cracking me up, you know.
(Down here being New Zealand, where it is 126:23 on Saturday)
Don’t shell them till you see the whites of their eggs
This circle is going egg-shaped
I’m shelldom at a loss for words..
You guys are so shellfish…
Unless you are yolked to a mad circle Rajini Rao
Omelet me outta here! 🙂
Brilliant Rajini Rao
If God had not invented puns it would have been necessary to invent them.
Try this one: A non sequitur is what you use to prune an illogical garden.
That was an eggscruciating pun Nobilangelo Ceramalus .
It is both pun and non sequitur, which is why it is particularly shelly Rajini Rao
hi miss rajni
I thought it was rather egglegant Rajini Rao
You’re just scrambling my brain!
This just quacks me up 🙂
We seem to be going ova and ova the same puns 🙂
Well done Rajini Rao
Or should I say easy ova?
No really, that was
overova easy.Nest time, we’ll get it right.
That’s not fair. You have a natural advantage Rajini Rao
We can’t carry on gameting like this Rajini Rao
A bunch of wise quackers 🙂
In this oosphere
My quicheton is shall we break it off?
You’ve zygote me now Rajini Rao (and the Concise Oxford)
These yolks are a dime a dozen, so lay it on Nobilangelo Ceramalus !
There’s only two sorts here, the quiche and the fried
But you’re only pollen my leg, right? Rajini Rao
At this rate well make it to the Guinness Book of Eggcords Rajini Rao
Haven’t you had enoeuf yet?
The record for the number of spore yolks cracked in a shelly session.
Is French cheating Rajini Rao
Why, did that yolk go huevo-ver your head?
I’m glad this is a friendly game, Rajini Rao , not a gametophyte.
What fowl puns!
As long as you don’t go poaching my good yolks, Nobilangelo Ceramalus .
No, Rajini Rao , I thought it was a mesobllast
But you have so many Rajini Rao
And zillions more to release
I’m getting eggsausted, Nobilangelo Ceramalus , although I hope I’meringue.
No, Rajini Rao you’re just being ova reasonable
You might have to be a New Zealander or an Australian to get all the nuances of my saying Pavlova to you Rajini Rao
That’s all, yolks! It’ll soon be sunny side up on this side of the world..staying up late is not what it’s cracked up to be 🙂
I’m schizophrenic and so am I.
Fare thee well, cracker woman, Rajini Rao
PS. A Pavlova is a mega-meringue, named, for some reason, after the ballet dancer. But it was not till now that I realised that the name of the dish is a nice pun.
This was eggscellent! You’re a rather good egg, Nobilangelo Ceramalus .
I oviposit that this punishment must stop.
It is infundibulumly painful!
My mother obviously thought so, Rajini Rao
Like you, Rajini Rao , I have to duck out and do something else…
You’re all stating the blatantly oviparous!
Is there not Big Endian or Little Endian to all this?
Gullible’s Travails?
Once you’ve picked up this thread it’s hard to Lilliput down.
This duck-inspired thread is now down.
Feathered
nice…..
he’s so fresh he’s still got his lil egg tooth
This is such an awesome pic!!!
it is called as good pic
interesting words…wonderful pic
No doubt picture is beautiful and photography which include such a angle is even beautiful.
I’m with Vinod, what a remarkable demonstration of 1) how ducks ‘float’, 2) why they stay dry and warm whilst performing item 1, and 3) the remarkable adaptation through time of an avian species to an aquatic environment. (The lack of skin effect upon the lens or isolating panel of (plexi)glass(?) between the environment the the recorder is also exquisite.)
oh, and the quotation? Ya, that too!~
I was busy all day yesterday. I just watched the White Sox after dinner. I think I skimmed through this but maybe I missed it. I at least posted a reply to the duck pic. http://goo.gl/Zvi1i
It was a late night post..the Incorrigibles were all off doing things IRL. I was actually trying to write a post on Hodgkin and Huxley’s giant squid axon experiment (Huxley just passed away), but it was too late for my frontal lobe neurons to hit the right synapses, so I just fired some loose action potentials instead 😛
Yeah, I dug through some old stuff I emailed to recycle for G+. I think it was too late for Rajini Rao and Gnotic Pasta
Wait, if mornings are so bad, Gnotic Pasta how do you have a job that makes you get up at 3 AM?
Gnotic Pasta PUNishment indeed
I have no more quacks to add to this compendium, Feisal Kamil , and I can only beg your forgiveness in a musical manner: Be kind to your web footed friend….
LOL, Caleb Allen and William McGarvey ! I was starting to feel negglected by you 🙂
Gnotic Pasta is the one with the chicks.
As the head of the hospital proclaimed to the magistrate in the operating room, surrounded by the accused and desperately ill, “You’re trying my patients, madame!” (Now, how’s that for negglect, Rajini Rao ?)
I was too tired for something as heavy as discussions of eggstentialism.
If you put your thinking cap-on William McGarvey , I’m sure you can lay out some more Fabergelous yolks than that 🙂
Do you suppose some ancient Athenian architects were inspired by Parthenonogenesis?
Eggscuzes, Chad Haney , don’t be so neggative. Plenty more puns in the basket.
But my morning is still embryonic.
O’vary good, William McGarvey !
“You’re just trying to sperm me on, Rajini Rao !”, he ejaculated, “while the airport traffic controller is trying to huevos off.”
Thanks Chad Haney for eliciting this musical interlude from waaaay back: Jefferson Airplane – Embryonic Journey
That was lovely, William McGarvey (now I can forgive you for eggbarrassing me over that wickegg pun) 🙂
Looks like I might have ended this thread by really laying an …
Speaking of Airplane do you speak jive, William McGarvey I Speak Jive – Airplane! (5/10) Movie CLIP (1980) HD
I think that would be the other Jefferson’s Airplane, Chad Haney : The Jeffersons Original Theme Song
Albumening to complain to G+ about that…
Must we sulfur the continuing stench of these rotten egg puns?
As long as we are still fertile, this could be henteresting….
Menarche my words, Rajini Rao , you’ll get no standing ovulation from me!
Parthenonogenesis, William McGarvey? Did the Acropolis generate that thing all by itself, or was it built entirely by women?
On another note, if a young pig is a suckling, and a young duck is a duckling, do ducklings duckle?
Young duck & old donald duck.
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
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nice photo
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nice pic