Comments on: You know you’re a Chemist when…

By: JLS

JLS — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 14:19:21 +0000

…you start to do something dangerous like chopping vegetables in the kitchen and realize you’re wandering around desperately looking for…your safety glasses.

…you have ever said, “Honey, can you filter the noodles?”

*guilty of both*

By: William Penrose

William Penrose — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:44:30 +0000

Dug this up from a post I made on sci.chem about 12 years ago:

YOU MIGHT BE A CHEMIST IF
From: wpenrose#NoSpam.interaccess.com (William R. Penrose)

- You keep a picture of Mme. Curie over your desk — and it turns you on.
- You named your firstborn after one of the lanthanides, and than felt
compelled to have more until you had the whole set.
- When you had an unexpected sixteenth child, you just had to name him
actinium, and now you’re not sure how to stop.
- You know that Anal. Chem. is not the title of a raunchy video.
- You think that fresh air smells bad.

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By: azmanam

azmanam — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 22:04:19 +0000

… You wonder why people would ever want to unionize. … And then you wonder how they became ionized to begin with.

By: Pharmacist Jeanie

Pharmacist Jeanie — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 23:34:08 +0000

And you know you are … when you are fed up with people saying “soap” when YOU KNOW THEY MEAN “detergent” !!!

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By: Epicanis

Epicanis — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:59:23 +0000

Several of those would also apply to Microbiologists. Especially the hand-washing one.
We’d say “conjugation” instead of “sex”, though.

By: psi*psi

psi*psi — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 23:38:26 +0000

…Yeah, some of those are a little hopeless. I like the one about getting offered acid, though. Too bad it never happens.

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 11:16:10 +0000

The amaretto one rang sooo true. I always tell people that’s the smell and then waffle on about cyanide etc.

The bicycle crash made me laugh out loud! Brilliant

By: Taitauwai

Taitauwai — Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:28:16 +0000

Oh… so true about the scars. Me got awsome one from a polymerization “accident”. Melted my watch (plastic) and burn my skin. Got a giant blister. However, my lab mate couldn’t get the bicycle joke. He’s a Natural Product, not a synthetic guy.