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Periodic Table Table Poster Post

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ray-smullyan-did-not-live-in-vain dept.

TheodoreGray writes to mention his Artsy Periodic Table Poster. Others here have discovered his Periodic Table Table and his sodium-in-the-lake party. He concludes, "And if I post about posters again, I could be a Periodic Periodic Table Table Poster Poster."

14 of 93 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Four years to make a poster by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Ha, ha, ha. You got me.

  2. Re:offtopic Troll by ajs318 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Other languages do have puns, they just don't translate well because words that sound similar but mean completely different things in one language don't necessarily sound anything like each other in another language. For instance .....

    Q. Why is a watch called a watch?
    A. Because it shows you the time!

    is not funny at all in English; but if you translate it into French, print it on a T-shirt, and wander round Paris, you'll have French people collapsing in paroxysms of laughter. Even the gendarmes won't be able to get near enough to arrest you. You could rob several banks in the time it takes for the authorities to send a non-French-speaker after you.

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  3. Uh, what by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    This play on words is great, but I'm more interested in an informative headline. Isn't the headline supposed to give us a quick idea of the article so we know whether it's worth reading or not, as opposed to having to decipher it first?

  4. Re:Holy slashvertising batman! by clickclickdrone · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    >Step 5: ???
    Step 5: No Profit!!!

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  5. Re:Oh, COME ON. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Gee, calm down! This happens all the time here!

  6. Uhhh... what? by adf2006 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Main page news?

    I mean, I only attempted to read the article because I didn't even understand the summary.

    Coherence is important, and while that headline may appear witty to those on the inside, the point is that it describes the point of the article in a clear and brief manner. "Periodic Table Table Poster Post," not so much. I don't want to have to decode /. summaries at 6:30AM. Or ever.

    Save the jokes for the department line.

  7. Title by tsa · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Great title above this post!

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    -- Cheers!

  8. Re:offtopic Troll by tsa · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Eehm.. My French is not so good. Could you help me please?

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    -- Cheers!

  9. slashvertisment by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    If I could just get a story on /. perhaps I would not need to live in moms basement... Who do I need to pleasure?

  10. I'll just pretend it's an actual article... by chowdy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I, for one, welcome our periodically tabled overlords.

  11. Re:offtopic Troll by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's not funny (unless it's very, very late). Use google translator to understand and "laugh".

  12. Re:Ooo.. by fithmo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    <p>
    I thought on the internet anything between paragraph tags was assumed to be sarcastic...?
    </p>

  13. English version by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    It's about as funny as:

    Q: Why is a watch called a watch?
    A: Because you watch the time in it!

  14. Re:Four years to make a poster by mgblst · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    There is no article. I guess we are still waiting for the first of such people to take an interest in wikipedia.