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Fun with Organic Chemistry

Thinking about chemistry?  Just can't leave it alone? Well...

You know that you think about Organic Chemistry entirely too much when...

--When the coffee is perking, you refer to it as 'still refluxing'.

--At dinner you serve the salad dressing in a sep funnel.

-- you're stuck in traffic, you notice the car in front's numberplate as a molecular formula...

--Everytime you see a stop sign you see a benzene ring. Moments later you disappointedly realize it is only cyclo-octane.

--You set your alarm to get up every two hours to check on a 24hour reflux.

--You have a Pavlovian drooling response every time you smell Et2O.

--You can differentiate most common organic solvents from each other merely by the smell.

--You insist on naming your first child Ethyl, then almost get divorced over your spouse not letting YOU give the kid a middle name.

--You say grace at the Thanksgiving day table and include thanking the Lord for the tryptophan you are about to receive.

--Every time you hear the word "animation", you want to correct the person who said it.

--You mount a reflux condenser in the lid of your pot because you're tired of the pot boiling over or boiling dry whenever you steam your veggies and chicken.


--When your wife tells you to clean up some kind of stain in the house, you try to figure out what solvent will work best and refuse to use 'normal' household cleaners.

--When you find yourself typically deep in thought, and just so you don't sound redundant, you lie, when asked by your friends and family the question "So, what's on your mind?"

--You pour milk on your cereal very, very slowly.

  Some are sad, some are true.  And I've had more of these than I care to mention in polite company...

For example "Drink IPA?   Are you mental?"

"Oh, you mean India Pale Ale..."