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Puns

by Phil on Apr 24 2009 (3557 Views)

Angewandte is kind of famous (or infamous) for the puns in the graphical abstract subheadings. I came across this one:

Kaim, Hosmane, Záliscaron, Maguire and Lipscomb, ACIE, Early View: To "B" or not to "B",

which is about average for an ACIE pun. Fair enough. Further down the page there was this one:

Winchester, Whitby and Shaffer, ACIE, Early View: To Bi or not to Bi.

Seriously, are we running out of puns?


Posted on : Apr 24 2009
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3 Responses to “Puns”

  1. 1

    I tried doing puns using the ChemFeeds abstracts, butI don't think anyone "got them". So I took it down.

  2. 2

    Another one in the same issue is

    "Gone up in frames"

    It is funnier if you see that the authors are all Chinese.

  3. 3

    [...] general goofiness ACIE puts into its online abstracts. Many a blogger (Derek Lowe, Excimer, “Phil,” and Chiral Jones ) have also, um, “admired” ACIE’s ability to bring [...]

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