Thursday's Nuclear Particle Story

[Telo]

An atom said he thought he had lost an electron. 'Are you sure?' asked a fellow atom. 'Aye, I'm positive,' he replied.

- Herald Diary

[claymore]

Without wishing to appear negative, it would be better if you didn't go charging off to your computer terminal every time a spark of a thought jumps across your mind

[DaveS]

I once heard a rather fine poem, reputedly by James Clark Maxwell no less, which began something like:

Gin a body meet a body flyin through the air,
Gin a body strike a body, will it fly, and where?...

I wish I knew the rest of it. Can anyone help?

[Silkie]

In Memory of Edward Wilson, Who Repented of What Was in His Mind to Write after Section

Gin a body meet a body
Flyin’ through the air,
Gin a body hit a body,
Will it fly? and where?
Ilka impact has its measure,
Ne’er a ane hae I,
Yet a’ the lads they measure me,
Or, at least, they try.

Gin a body meet a body
Altogether free,
How they travel afterwards
We do not always see.
Ilka problem has its method
By analytics high;
For me, I ken na ane o’ them,
But what the waur am I?

James Clerk Maxwell

He wrote quite a few poems it would seem.

http://www.poemhunter.com/james-clerk-maxwell/

[little boy blue]

jimi ---- clerk r. --- eat your heart out

[ljs]

An atom said he thought he had lost an electron. 'Are you sure?' asked a fellow atom.

'Aye,' he replied. 'But it's nae bother. I've got an ion constitution.'

[ljs]

George W Bush to the vice-president:
'What's so great about putting a man on the moon? It's not rocket science..'

[Silkie]

I'll never forget the footage of the most powerful man in the western world hearing the first news of the attacks while visiting a primary school classroom.