I sat down to write a serious entry this evening (I like to hide my serious entries on a Sunday, so they don’t garner so much “attention”:http://network.nature.com/people/rpg/blog/2008/09/14/on-depression—a-personal-perspective cough ).
Unfortunately–or perhaps not, depending on your point of view–it just wasn’t working, so I’ve left it to stew for another week. In the meantime then, here are some quotes from the Science Blogging Conference.
Your job is to guess what is represented by the double question marks (‘??’)–whether it be a word or a name.
- The internet is full of ?? — Ben Goldacre
- Russians don’t fuck with ?? — Anna Kushnir
- ??’s the exception to every rule — Andy Lewis
- I never realized cell biologists were so ?? — Henry Gee
- For fuck’s sake, drink the damn drink — ??
- You’re wearing ??. We’re going to hide you behind the table — Li-Kim Lee
- People might think we talk with ?? ?? — Grrlscientist
- Oh shit, are we recording? — ??
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Feel free to add your own.
You’re wearing
*Old Spice*shorts. We’re going to hide you behind the table — Li-Kim LeeOh you went there. I can’t believe you went there. You are not safe to drink around, my friend. Not safe at all.
And you thought I wouldn’t. That’s why I took notes, after all.
Spam, Germans, Madonna, Witty, Romeo, A Pyjama, Theoretical Physicists, – Cut!
Spam, Germans, Madonna, Witty, Romeo, A Pyjama, Theoretical Physicists, – Cut!
Worst palindrome ever.
ba dum tisk
Sabine will be here all week !!
Hi Richard, this is completely unrelated to your post, but at least it’s related to your blog: why is it your blog does not have an RSS feed?
1. tubes
2. goats
3. Australia
4. gorgeous
5. Spokesperson for Cherry Coke
6. a kilt
7. our families
8. Paris Hilton
@ Karen, hope you don’t mind me ‘Steeling’ ba dum tisk from your blog. Classic drum loop.
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1. an army of bastards
2. time-wasters
3. Henry Gee
4. sober
5. RI bar staff
6. nothing
7. Seed Magazine
8. man in charge of the RI mixing desk
married men
bottles of vodka
girrafes
squishy
Richard P Grant
crocs
voles stuffed up our arses
Prof Michael Reiss
Hm, I was also going to guess “Richard P. Grant” for #5.
For cell biologists, I guess “uptight”.
#1 – the internet is full of crap. QED
Finally, regarding Russians, I’d guess they don’t f*ck with controls. Controls are for wimps, after all.
Some of these answers may be wrong.
Karen: http://network.nature.com/people/rpg/blog/posts.rss
The rest of you—only two correct so far.
learning fast, here’s my RSS feed
1. The internet is full of Russians
2. Russians don’t fuck with Ben Goldacre
3. Henry’s the exception to every rule
4. I never realized cell biologists were so chthonic
5. For fuck’s sake, drink the damn drink Richard
6. You’re wearing crocs? We’re going to hide you behind the table
7. People might think we talk with dodgy accents
8. Oh shit, are we recording? Anna
Well done Cath. One right, two right answers but to the wrong questions…
I thought I remembered #8 was actually Ben himself. The actual recording might confirm that. And that #6 concerned Australian shorts. But I have a notoriously poor short-term memory. Give me a few years and it will all come back to me. I sort of want the answer to #7 to be “our mouths full” for some reason, mostly because I think I was there when she said the real sentence and am annoyed I can’t remember more.
The internet is full of ducks — Ben Goldacre
Russians don’t fuck with ducks — Anna Kushnir
Donald’s the exception to every rule — Andy Lewis
I never realized cell biologists were so fickle — Henry Gee
For fuck’s sake, drink the damn drink — Dr. Rohn[1]
You’re wearing a lab coat. We’re going to hide you behind the table — Li-Kim Lee2
People might think we talk with authority. Hahaha — Grrlscientist
Oh shit, are we recording? — Grrlscientist
1 It’s difficult to beat Romeo as an answer, though.
2 It is of course possible that these two sentences were not related
Heather has two, Bob … a big, fat
zero
But Bob’s answer to #4 is surely better than the reality anyhow?
When do we get the answers?
Definitely.
Um, next Sunday? You can do better than this, shirley?
Don’t call me Shirley.
This is like that game with the coloured pegs (Master Mind). Or a logic puzzle! If Cath has one correct and one in the wrong place, and Heather has two correct, and a whole group of people collectively have two correct, then I think:
6. Crocs (Cath and Henry’s answer)
8. Ben Goldacre (One of Heather’s correct answer and Cath’s correct answer in the wrong place)
If those are correct, then that means that Heather’s other correct answer is:
7. our mouths full
That leaves one more correct answer in the first couple of responses. If the answer to 6 is indeed Crocs, that was Henry’s response, and I’m going to assume that the other correct response came from someone else (it sounded like a collective “the rest of you, only two correct”)
If Crocs are the correct answer to #6, then the remaining correct answer can’t be Graham’s answer to #3, because Cath gave the same answer and I accounted for all her correct answers above.
However, if it is Henry who is the exception to every rule, then:
3. Correct by Graham and Cath
That means #6 is not Crocs.
8. is still Ben Goldacre, accounting for Cath’s other corrent answer and one of Heather’s
That means that either #6 is shorts (in which case Graham gave two correct answers, which I’m not sure of, still, if one person gave both correct answers) OR #7 is “our mouths full” because they can’t both be correct now.
And I’m still missing one of the other correct answers.
Need more data points.
Eva – I made up the answer to #7.
Remind me never to play Clue on the other side of the table from you.
@ Eva:
Candidates may discuss THREE out of the following
FOURFIVE propositions. Please show all workings, and give reasons for your answers.Arrange a scenario that concludes with Professor Plum, in the Tissue-Culture Suite, with the Large Hadron Collider;
Where did they bury the survivors?
Excuse me, madam, but does this bus go to the station?
How is it that people who pretend to great financial acumen, and who earn a lot more than all of us put together, come up with a scheme to lend lots of money to people whom they know won’t be able to pay it back, and reckon that this is in any way a good idea?
Who put the benzedrine in Mrs Murphy’s Ovaltine?
Ah, with this new information, that means:
3. Henry
6. shorts
8. Ben Goldacre
and no other answers have yet been given, but these have all been answered by multiple people.
Henry – Contrary to popular belief, Professor Plum did not commit any crimes in the tissue culture suite, but rather, he composed the Tissue Culture Suite. It was to be premiered at CERN, and conducted by maestro Higgs-Boson, but recent technical difficulties with the Large Hadron Collider have meant that the performance had to be delayed until further notice.
Mornington Crescent. You know it makes sense.
Eva, that was truly terrible.
Apart from that, I’ll have to concede that your logic is impeccable.