Astrophysicists Unplugged
Heard around the Department at UF
Some problems don't exist for people who start late. -Curtis
I can spill anything. It's my special talent. Ask Michelle, she'll tell you all about it.
Michelle: Steve multpilies his sigma by his ego and publishes that.
Steve: I think it's ego-squared.
X-rays are my favorite wavelength. -Valerie
Never point your banana at me again. -Knicole
Just because he has vocabulary doesn't mean he can't use it wrongly. -Alison
Valerie: You haven't killed me yet.
Amanda: Well, there's a first time for everything.
Don't look at me like I'm an astronomer. -Valerie
I found my driver's license... and a spoon! -Tyler
I'd kill anyone who haunted a bathroom. -Michelle
Steve: Do the best you can, but not any better.
Curtis: I'll stop just short of impossible.
Reality has a well-known liberal bias. -Steve
Michelle: Isn't there some Jewish police I can report you to?
Dan: (dismissively) Um, it's called God. Anyway...
Steve: Hi, Michelle. Can I borrow your brain.
Michelle (sounding concerned): Can I come with you?
I'm getting a PhD in astrophysics, not common sense. -Valerie
Michelle: I know you have everyone's best interest at heart.
(Unidentifed grad student muttering under his breath): Actually I want everyone to die.
You don't have to know anything about statistics if you know how to Monte Carlo -Michelle
I realize you have no time, but some of the rest of us do. -Reba
They got absorbed. (I'm not allowed to say stolen.) -Michelle
Isn't there drinking later? ... May as well start at lunch. It'll be like an English day. -Reba
Reba: Did you get rid of the white spot? What was it?
Michelle: Oh, it was stupidity.
Do I need to bring something to the meeting or just my wits? -Michelle
Valerie: You can't schedule around other people's santiy.
Steve: Or your own.
Valerie: It's okay to lie
Curtis: But you can only do it so many times... I'll count and put myself down for one lie this week.
I introduced a fudge factor and assumed there was nothing wrong with it. -Mark
It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum. And I'm all out of bubble gum. -Curtis
Mess not with computer guys for you are crunchy and good with ketchup. -Reba
I'm sorry Curtis, your life sucks. -Michelle
Valerie's Distance Law: Pick ten. If it's too long, divide by two.
Valerie: And this is how I can tell you're not working. See the smile on your face?
Dan: AGNs are ... funny.
She sees gluestick, she still gets nervous. -Michelle
I'll conflict your interest, bitch. -Ashley
Alison: You're like half a woman anyway.
Tyler: Well you're like half a child.
Valerie: What am I?
Tyler: You're a goose. Come here, let me juggle you.
If you spill water on me, I will be very sad. And by sad, I mean I will kill you. -Alison
Tyler: I'm going to invent a zero-point module.
Alison: I'm going to invent a memory scanner.
Valerie: I'm not going to invent anything. I'm a parrot.
I have a finger that has a message for you. -Valerie in response to one of Dave's smart remarks
The printer is most definitely a woman, for a lot of reasons. Mostly because you have to know how to handle her if you want her to put out. -Anonymous
Put that in your southern pipe and smoke it. -Michelle
Reba: I hate probabilities.
Steve: Are you certain?
Reba: My confidence level is high.
Valerie: Dave doesn't handle anything well.
Reba: Creationists. Cigars.
Michelle: I don't know what you do at night.
Valerie: If you look at my credit card statement, you will find two separate purchases of shackles in the past month.
Dan: I don't do animals.
Ashley: You don't have to 'do' them, you just have to feed them.
Meat gives you strength. -David
Mr. Sensitive and the boy who shaves his legs. -Michelle describing Dan and Eric
I can only handle one war at a time. Right now, I'm working on the Dominion. -Alison
You know me, I love beer. -Valerie
Michelle: Where do you want to go for lunch?
The newly Dr. Dave, PhD: I was thinking some place with beer.
I'm allergic to plant sex. My virgin nose can't take it. -Michelle (on how spring is screwing her)
We'll get a restraining order for all meteors on the Earth. Violaters will be sentenced to exile in the Kuiper belt. -Ashley
I ate a whole one of those and realized it had peanuts in it. I didn't die, obviously. -Dave
Valerie: If that doesn't get you a job, I don't know what will.
Dan: What? Tying shoes?
Valerie to 8-Ball: Will Dave get a job?
Magic 8 Ball: Without a doubt.
Dan to 8-Ball: Will Dave work at McDonalds?
Magic 8 Ball: It is certain.
There's no 'F' in stars. -Valerie
Let me bury my soul for a moment so I can talk to my boss about things that will only upset me more. -Valerie
It was a stupid mistake, but it was perpetuated for a long time because you thought I was smarter than I am. -Michelle
Michelle: We're having some problems.
Curtis: I just gloss over mine... I find the hard problems and I leave them for you.
Ashley: Hay is for horses.
Dave: Baaaa!
That's not an order of magnitude, it's a factor of 10. -Dave
I'm trying to do work and I'm succeeding. It's kind of surprising. -Dave
He's still afraid of me because he knows that underneath all this science, I am a woman and I have rage. -Valerie
Excellent minds think alike. -Dave
Which way is blue? -Valerie
(mumble, mumble,mumble) I do that all the time. I start talking before my brain is in gear. -Dave
It's okay to need coffee. It's not okay to need a psychologist. -Valerie
I don't give a flying fish... it's f**k, isn't it? -Michelle
You can unkill something, you can't un-delete it. -Michelle
I'm confused as to how you're confused. -Michelle
Drunk people make good quotes. -Valerie
Every now and then I convince myself that Steve is a mere mortal, and then he shows me this s$*t. -Michelle
One day [Steve's] travel plans will cease to shock you. If you montecarlo him, I expect the results would be similar to the 8 ball. -Valerie
Mark has several quotes, all of them dirty. -Michelle
I have a PDF file, but it's not edible. -Dave
Dave was an unfortunate fatality in the Jonathan Tan War. -Anonymous (censored to protect the innocent)
I suffered from Graham Cracker trauma in preschool. -David
And that's why it was stupid. -Valerie
Right now, I'm excited about basketball. -Craig
I may have missed something, but ... B.W. after a 45 minute snooze.
Can I get some input/exput? -Ashley
You're in the wrong field if you're not an optimist. -Charlie T.
Squint-o-meter. -Gottesman
Who's the blonde chick? M.E.
If it doesn't have an accretion disk, it doesn't have gravity. -Valerie
Showing a Fourier integral to a student is like showing a crucifix to Dracula. -Justin C.
You can cure everything with a good velocity kick. -Steve
If it can go through your body without killing you, it's not high energy. -M.E.
You'd think I could get a Ph.D. after all this! -Veronica
Anything that's true to first order is true. There are no second order effects in astrophysics, just a need for better data. -Andrew G. (FES)
Shutup a$$hole! You just spent $25,000 on a dollar bill! -Ashley
I've got to write down my lectures from one side of my brain to the other. -Dave
We would have never predicted ourselves if we weren't here in the first place! -Bo, paraphrase
You have measured the absolute value of the weirdness. -Reba to Michelle
Damn if you do. Damn if you don't. -Bo
Have you seen what [xxxx] is wearing? Somewhere his girlfriend is cold! -Ashley, (name sensored to protect the innocent)
To put it in context, it's not anything to jump off a bridge for. -B.W.
Did we fight Germany in a Disney movie? -Valerie
God didn't go to grad school, hence the day of rest crap. -Ashley
The world flag: for the sake of peace now, for the sake of aliens later. -Ashley and Valerie
Tyler: Did I do well on my solar system test?
Magic 8 Ball: Don't count on it.
Edit, Undo! Edit, Undo! -Dave after Michelle erased the whiteboard
Ashley: Our office has just gone from kickass to kickasser! Put that in your planetarium and view it.
Dave: I had to laugh at that twice.
You're f***ing ABC news! I don't mean you're having sex with ABC news! -M.E.
It's like swinging a fat dog by a short tail. -H. Smith
If it wasn't for diffraction of sound waves, you couldn't hear a sausage. -Gottesman