Comments on: Learn F***in' Science with Insane Clown Posse http://boingboing.net/2010/04/10/learn-fin-science-wi.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Fri, 24 May 2013 12:04:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/04/10/learn-fin-science-wi.html#comment-836617 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-836617 @nixiebunny • #1: Good observation. I think the old resistor mnemonic is even more offensive since it seems to makes light of rape. @nixiebunny • #1: Good observation. I think the old resistor mnemonic is even more offensive since it seems to makes light of rape.

]]> By: nixiebunny http://boingboing.net/2010/04/10/learn-fin-science-wi.html#comment-758283 nixiebunny Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-758283 That mnemonic for memorizing the rainbow colors is no worse than the one taught to every young electrical engineer back in the good old days for the EIA resistor color code. Ask your dad. That mnemonic for memorizing the rainbow colors is no worse than the one taught to every young electrical engineer back in the good old days for the EIA resistor color code. Ask your dad.

]]> By: Falcon_Seven http://boingboing.net/2010/04/10/learn-fin-science-wi.html#comment-758541 Falcon_Seven Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-758541 Rainbows occur through refraction, dispersion, and total internal reflection, not by transmission. Just sayin'.</ br></ br> <a href="http://www.rebeccapaton.net/rainbows/formatn.htm">Easy diagram.</a></ br></ br> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Total_internal_reflection">The hard 'science'.</a> Rainbows occur through refraction, dispersion, and total internal reflection, not by transmission. Just sayin’.
Easy diagram.
The hard ‘science’.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/04/10/learn-fin-science-wi.html#comment-837390 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-837390 You guys are too white by half. Seriously. Have a smoke-n-a-smile and re-listen to the song: it's just a coupla goofy honkies using a "rap" format to say "life is really neat, and so are rainbows." And magnets. You guys are too white by half. Seriously.

Have a smoke-n-a-smile and re-listen to the song: it’s just a coupla goofy honkies using a “rap” format to say “life is really neat, and so are rainbows.”

And magnets.

]]> By: LLLLLL http://boingboing.net/2010/04/10/learn-fin-science-wi.html#comment-758800 LLLLLL Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-758800 Does everything need a gimmick? Science is kick-ass as-is. Quantum-mechanics, optics, thermodynamics, it doesn't get much better than that. If you need to pepper it with stupid clown-stuff then you just don't get it. Does everything need a gimmick? Science is kick-ass as-is. Quantum-mechanics, optics, thermodynamics, it doesn’t get much better than that. If you need to pepper it with stupid clown-stuff then you just don’t get it.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/04/10/learn-fin-science-wi.html#comment-758548 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-758548 bad beer roots our young guts but vodka goes well ;) bad beer roots our young guts but vodka goes well ;)

]]> By: hechanova http://boingboing.net/2010/04/10/learn-fin-science-wi.html#comment-758295 hechanova Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-758295 ...or Google. Yikes. It's like someone's drunk, lecherous grandad became a mnemonic. …or Google. Yikes. It’s like someone’s drunk, lecherous grandad became a mnemonic.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/04/10/learn-fin-science-wi.html#comment-758817 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-758817 I'm living in Transmetropolitan. I never thought I'd see that day when I first read the comic... I’m living in Transmetropolitan. I never thought I’d see that day when I first read the comic…

]]> By: Fletcherism http://boingboing.net/2010/04/10/learn-fin-science-wi.html#comment-758321 Fletcherism Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-758321 I thought that this was kind of awesome: http://ryansprinkle.tumblr.com/post/509251854 "Magnets for Juggalos" I thought that this was kind of awesome: http://ryansprinkle.tumblr.com/post/509251854

“Magnets for Juggalos”

]]> By: numcrun http://boingboing.net/2010/04/10/learn-fin-science-wi.html#comment-758579 numcrun Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-758579 How about "Virgins In Bed Give You Odd Results?" That's what was taught in my school. How about “Virgins In Bed Give You Odd Results?” That’s what was taught in my school.

]]> By: fxq http://boingboing.net/2010/04/10/learn-fin-science-wi.html#comment-758326 fxq Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-758326 Please. Stop. Please. Stop.

]]> By: Hughv http://boingboing.net/2010/04/10/learn-fin-science-wi.html#comment-758598 Hughv Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-758598 While I appreciate the awesomeness of the video, the incredibly vulgar language negates any good that might otherwise be done, and suggests the performers/writers aren't well socialized. I'm far from a prude in these matters, but the audience that might gain from this presentation is too young for this kind of gratuitous swearing. While I appreciate the awesomeness of the video, the incredibly vulgar language negates any good that might otherwise be done, and suggests the performers/writers aren’t well socialized.
I’m far from a prude in these matters, but the audience that might gain from this presentation is too young for this kind of gratuitous swearing.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/04/10/learn-fin-science-wi.html#comment-758346 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-758346 20 years and still getting people worked up. Gotta love it. 20 years and still getting people worked up. Gotta love it.

]]> By: siliconsunset http://boingboing.net/2010/04/10/learn-fin-science-wi.html#comment-758616 siliconsunset Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-758616 So... am I the only one who thinks this reads a lot like a Maddox write-up without the wit? Don't get me wrong, though, I find this to be amazing and funny. So… am I the only one who thinks this reads a lot like a Maddox write-up without the wit?

Don’t get me wrong, though, I find this to be amazing and funny.

]]> By: Teller http://boingboing.net/2010/04/10/learn-fin-science-wi.html#comment-758891 Teller Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-758891 Sherman, said Mr Peabody, an Original, Young Gangsta is an impossibility since an OG is, de facto, older. Sherman, said Mr Peabody, an Original, Young Gangsta is an impossibility since an OG is, de facto, older.

]]> By: bklynchris http://boingboing.net/2010/04/10/learn-fin-science-wi.html#comment-758383 bklynchris Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-758383 So wait, ICP are anti-science Christian fundamentalist freaks? Yes, right? So wait, ICP are anti-science Christian fundamentalist freaks? Yes, right?

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/04/10/learn-fin-science-wi.html#comment-758649 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-758649 Like, the best shit on boingboing.net? and shit? Like, the best shit on boingboing.net? and shit?

]]> By: Trotsky http://boingboing.net/2010/04/10/learn-fin-science-wi.html#comment-758397 Trotsky Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-758397 Swaim and O'Brien (AKA Agents of Cracked) are regular viewing on my Internet comedy rotation. Recommended by Trotsky. Do this: http://www.cracked.com/article/217_agents-cracked-daring-tale-sex-idiocy-revenge/ Swaim and O’Brien (AKA Agents of Cracked) are regular viewing on my Internet comedy rotation. Recommended by Trotsky.

Do this:
http://www.cracked.com/article/217_agents-cracked-daring-tale-sex-idiocy-revenge/

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/04/10/learn-fin-science-wi.html#comment-758401 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-758401 Medical school had some pretty good mnemonics back in the day. Medical school had some pretty good mnemonics back in the day.

]]> By: drivenbyboredom http://boingboing.net/2010/04/10/learn-fin-science-wi.html#comment-758669 drivenbyboredom Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-758669 I wrote this thing after seeing that video about ICP and Christianity. They came out of the closet as the strangest form of Christians yet a few years ago. http://www.drivenbyboredom.com/2010/04/08/fucking-magnets-how-do-they-work/ I wrote this thing after seeing that video about ICP and Christianity. They came out of the closet as the strangest form of Christians yet a few years ago.

http://www.drivenbyboredom.com/2010/04/08/fucking-magnets-how-do-they-work/

]]> By: Felton http://boingboing.net/2010/04/10/learn-fin-science-wi.html#comment-758925 Felton Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-758925 I just remembered this <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhbqIJZ8wCM">YouTube clip</a> of Venus Flytrap explaining the atom on WKRP. I just remembered this YouTube clip of Venus Flytrap explaining the atom on WKRP.

]]> By: jackie31337 http://boingboing.net/2010/04/10/learn-fin-science-wi.html#comment-758695 jackie31337 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-758695 I learned "Never Lower Tilly's Pants Mother May Come Home" for the bones in the wrist from my mom, who is an X-ray (well, CT now) tech. I remember the mnemonic, but I can't remember the names of the bones any more. I learned “Never Lower Tilly’s Pants Mother May Come Home” for the bones in the wrist from my mom, who is an X-ray (well, CT now) tech. I remember the mnemonic, but I can’t remember the names of the bones any more.

]]> By: JasonsRobot http://boingboing.net/2010/04/10/learn-fin-science-wi.html#comment-758701 JasonsRobot Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-758701 Rainbows are aren't magic. They're a conspiracy.. according to this rational sounding lady: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIYZvr3ueGw Rainbows are aren’t magic. They’re a conspiracy.. according to this rational sounding lady: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIYZvr3ueGw

]]> By: yrarbil cilbup http://boingboing.net/2010/04/10/learn-fin-science-wi.html#comment-758732 yrarbil cilbup Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-758732 Sloted next to Evan Perman, two sides of a odd coin. Sloted next to Evan Perman, two sides of a odd coin.

]]> By: drearyman21 http://boingboing.net/2010/04/10/learn-fin-science-wi.html#comment-759247 drearyman21 Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-759247 The language is horrid. The language is horrid.

]]> By: Anonymous http://boingboing.net/2010/04/10/learn-fin-science-wi.html#comment-758769 Anonymous Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 #comment-758769 The five stages of grief: Drink Alcohol Before Doing Anal The five stages of grief:

Drink Alcohol Before Doing Anal

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