Welcome to the Skellingcorner, tumblr home of a 25 yo weirdo from Luxembourg.
Blog may contain : Films, Series, Books, Games, and the usual weird stuff. Feel free to come and say hi !
Background Illustrations provided by: http://edison.rutgers.edu/
Reblogged from abschaumno1  99,048 notes

crazyeddieme:

kyraneko:

callmegallifreya:

error-404-fuck-not-found:

dendritic-trees:

fuckingflying:

I hate linguistic anthropology. Why? One of the most influential experiments in linguistic anthropology involved teaching a chimp asl. One of the most influential linguistics is named Noam Chomsky. You know what the chimp’s name was?

Nim Chimpsky.

Fucking monkey pun.

And this is in textbooks, in documentaries, everywhere. And everyone just IGNORES THIS GOD AWFUL PUN cause of how important the experiment was. But

BUT LOOK AT THIS SHIT. FUCKING NIM CHIMPSKY. I HATE THIS WHOLE FIELD.

Its not just the linguistic anthropologists.

There’s a group of very important genes that determine if your body develops in the right shape/organization… they are called the hedgehog genes, because fruit fly geneticists are all ridiculous.  The different hedgehog genes are all named after different hedgehogs.  And then someone decided to get clever and name one “sonic hedgehog” because this is just what fruitfly geneticists do.

Well sonic hedgehog controls brain development, and now actual doctors are stuck in the position of explaining to grieving parents that their child’s lethal birth defects or life-threatening tumors are caused by a “sonic hedgehog mutation”.

And this is why no one will invite the fruit fly people to parties.

Biogeochemical scientists, upon discovering the complex mechanisms that govern the storage and use of molecular iron on our planet, decided to call this cycle “the ferrous wheel”.  We groaned about that for at least five solid minutes.

The phenomenon of sneezing when exposed to sudden bright light is called an Autosomal-dominant Compelling Helio Opthalmic Outburst. ACHOO.

Half a byte of data is a nibble.

I LOVE US

And don’t forget the particle physicists.

While trying to figure out what the hell our universe is almost entirely made out of, one theory they came up with is that it’s a bunch of Weakly-Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs).

So naturally, they followed that up with MAssive Compact Halo Objects (MACHOs) and Robust Associations of Massive Baryonic Objects (RAMBOs).

  1. the-opal-mermaid reblogged this from deadcatwithaflamethrower
  2. ceilingfans-and-idlehands reblogged this from farewelltomediocrity
  3. mssr-cellophane reblogged this from spookachtig-wezentje
  4. olive-stripe reblogged this from princesszeldaz
  5. vash3r reblogged this from koito-yuu
  6. n3scio reblogged this from lochnessbutch
  7. modern-vampire-url reblogged this from fatalistic-optimism
  8. fledermaus-and-gerald reblogged this from batsintheshadows
  9. wrenwolfe reblogged this from graffiti-bi
  10. graffiti-bi reblogged this from loofooooottoo
  11. ryder-h reblogged this from loofooooottoo
  12. rantingandravenclaw reblogged this from nessanarmolanya
  13. nessanarmolanya reblogged this from socially-ineptnerd
  14. princeofmadness54 reblogged this from improbabledetective
  15. improbabledetective reblogged this from flyingchocolatebunny
  16. loofooooottoo reblogged this from philip-the-nickel
  17. flyingchocolatebunny reblogged this from distressedcarrot
  18. batsintheshadows reblogged this from distressedcarrot
  19. distressedcarrot reblogged this from philip-the-nickel
  20. daydreamdeity reblogged this from philip-the-nickel
  21. philip-the-nickel reblogged this from oh-my-flying-fuck
  22. blu-me-away reblogged this from socially-ineptnerd
  23. mississpithy reblogged this from socially-ineptnerd and added:
    “Punning is largely the trick of combining two or more ideas within a single word or expression. Punning challenges us...
  24. sarcrisis reblogged this from screechingstudents
  25. tzila-opal reblogged this from artistictranquility
  26. efrbol reblogged this from gelos
  27. gelos reblogged this from socially-ineptnerd
  28. oh-my-flying-fuck reblogged this from defenestrations
  29. socially-ineptnerd reblogged this from owlsofstarlight