just-opal-things:

napoleonchingon:

coachellaravedad:

napoleonchingon:

The second best pun I’ve ever encountered in the wild was when I was walking down the street in a “hip” part of Seattle and saw a couple of Budweiser cans thrown into a bush. And I said to a random stranger walking nearby “damn, the local beer harvest is really poor this year”. And the random stranger responded “give it time, they’re only buds”.

So…what was the first best pun?

Somehow this thing got 1k notes while the previous post, which was about the best pun I’ve ever encountered in the wild got 3 notes. Anyway: I was TAing an electrostatics lab. The experiment was to see what happens when you rub wool on a bunch of rods of different materials and then bring the rods near scraps of paper.

One student’s lab report had this observation on what happens when you try to charge up a metal rod: “paper remains stationery”

These are the best puns

batmans-hippie-mobile:

I, for one, like Roman Numerals.

tradepassingjesus:

comesitbymyfire:

toodrunktofindaurl:

exxtraterrestrial:

I need more hufflepuff representation. Do not be afraid young hufflepuffs. Dwayne the fucking ROCK Johnson is a hufflepuff. Punch a FUCKING wall. ITS HUFFLEPUFF TIME.

You might say that he is a… Hufflebuff

Yah, I guess he’s pretty Huffletough

But of course he is Hufflerough after all.

scienceshenanigans:

justbadpuns:

The rotation of Earth really makes my day

Was reading up on the rise of cremation in Victorian England when I came across this sentence : ‘The debate became more heated’. I see what you did there.

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.