Sorry for the two-line postings, but today I talked to a hundred people for five hours. It’s JoAnne’s fault. Details tomorrow.
Sorry for the two-line postings, but today I talked to a hundred people for five hours. It’s JoAnne’s fault. Details tomorrow.
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17 responses to “Bawdy strumpets”
Crossing my fingers in hopes this is an odd attempt at humor, but even with physics (especially string theory) its tough to tell these days. Stupid internet being all big.
Yeah, but everyone knows the really cool talks won’t be until next week. I would prefer the social hour from this week to next week’s soccer game, though.
Yowza.
If on the level, that’s a rather foaming indictment.
Yeah, I’m having a hard time working out whether this is a joke or not.
I was intrigued to find out that my advisor makes “100,000 of thousands of dollars”, and that I’m starving. (Man, I wish I’d realized that earlier; I’d of et somthing.)
It’s an idiot forum posting by a two-post troll.
Big deal.
I think you have to admit, though, that “bawdy strumpets” is a great phrase, possibly a great name for a band, a comedy troupe, a blog…
Yes! I’ve already placed an order for a set of T-shirts, perhaps for all my students to wear. I love the name! -cvj
After all the work we put into deciding the name of the blog and this one was right there for the taking! I mean, sure, our banner is pretty, but wouldn’t is be better if it was a cartoon of the five of us rolling in a big pile of cash while experimentalists wait on us with huge platters of caviar?
Still can’t actually figure out if it’s a joke, although the mixing of upper case and lower case characters makes me think Fzplus is right.
Oh my. Duped, misled by the siren song of physics and the bright new blog — I feel so, so…dirty. Gluttonous.
I feasted on (what I thought was) intellectual discourse and drank heartily the wine of witty repartee. What to do when someone wiser points out the cerebral fodder is poppycock!
Well, if lovin’ you is wrong, I don’t wanna be right. Guess I’m going to hell in a handbasket. Goodness gracious! ; )
Hi, I’m from Italy. Could somebody explain to me what the difference is between a strumpet and a prostitute, please. If there is no difference, as I thought, then I’d have to suppose that that guy can’t find more than 2 concepts when he wants to write a 3-word phrase.
So you’re reading Harry Potter rather than doing last-minute tinkering with your General Relativity Primer? I see…. -cvj
Wow! How are scientists to reach out to the general public when they are so harshly scrutinized by each other? Can’t theorist and experimentalits just get along and sing Kumbaya around the campfire? jk. But really I love this blogsite and all the conversations it has inspired. I’m usually reluctant to post comments. However, the ‘Bawdy Strumpets’ rant was so methodically critical and unfair I couldn’t maintain my reticence. So in a sense the absurd name-calling was needed. Now you can hear from the greater majority of us who feel ‘CosmicVariance’ is a phenomenal blog with a wonderful mix of qualified and educated contributors! kumbaya…
From now on I promise to unchain my graduate students for regular feeding times – twice a week.
On the thread of whether this is a hoax, I note that the experimental group at CalTech pioneered the current heavy flavor physics program at SLAC. Ah – I foresee a post on B physics in my near future…
Okay, I’m working my way from a comment to a real posting.
“Heavy flavor physics” would be an excellent name for a rock band. 🙂
I really can’t remember ever being called a name as lovely as bawdy strumpets.
Just wondering if you guys have seen the reply to that post in the same thread
It just made me laugh out aloud, probably the best response I can imagine to such a post.
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