“Why did the two cyanide groups go to see a psychiatrist? Because they were both ‘in dinile’…”
Oww! Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow!
…The site linked to above is probably not work-safe if your boss thinks that seeing mildly naughty words makes you evil or unemployable. There are some cool molecules there, whatever your employer may think about it.
…I just have to quote this from the third page of the site. Heaven knows what’s going to happen to Google searches for the blog now…
“From Flybase, a database of fruit-fly genes maintained by a consortium of research institutions. The genes were named by the researchers who discovered them. Convention suggests that if the genes’ human counterparts are discovered, they will be given the same names:
“‘aloof, always early, amontillado, bang senseless, bang sensitive, bride of sevenless, brother of odd with entrails limited, bumper-to-bumper, couch potato, crack, crossbronx, Daughter killer, daughter of sevenless, Deadpan, deathknell, Dinty, disco-related, dog of glass, effete, eggroll, enoki mushroom, escargot, ether a go-go, fear-of-intimacy, fuzzy onions, genghis khan, glass bottom boat, Godzilla, Grunge, gut feeling, helter-skelter, he’s not interested, hoi-polloi, In dunce, inebriated, jekyll and hyde, just odd knobs, ken and barbie, king tubby, klingon, ladybird early, ladybird late, lemming, long island expressway, maelstrom, Malvolio, members only, mozzarella, naked cuticle, nanking, okra, out at first, oxen, pacman, papillote, pentagon, pugilist, quagmire, quick-to-court, redtape, Revolute, roadkill, rolling stone, sawtooth, scab, scott of the antarctic, scruin like at the midline, sevenless, Sex lethal, shank, similar to Deadpan, singles bar, slamdance, spotted dick, stranded at second, Thor, thousand points of light, Trailer hitch, vibrator, viking.'”
