About time for a little light humor . . .
From Physics for Cats by Tom Gauld
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I think Dr. Garfield might run into troubles in peer review … unless all the reviewers are also cats. 
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That was my wife’s reaction too.
I came across this funny here but can’t find the OP anymore. Fortunately I took a screenshot but there were some good comments too I’d like to remember.
I’m guessing it might have come from @Laura -not to point any fingers- or maybe you just had one of the better side comments.
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Well, I don’t think I’ve seen this exact thing before, but reading it felt like I was back at one of Kent Hovind’s seminars. (Except he’s enough of a purist to put creation at 6,000 years ago, not 10,000, and he would definitely suggest that people have indeed seen a live plesiosaur in Loch Ness).
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I’m sure if I ever go to Loch Ness, whatever the Loch Ness monster is he/she will surely himself/herself to me. 
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I thought the same thing when I went there as a kid. I kept thinking of Kent Hovind’s story of a plesiosaur with a sheep in its mouth crossing the road in front of a family in a minivan. I was secretly devastated when nothing even remotely like that happened to us.
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Yeah, but your last name isn’t Ness. They have an obligation to show themselves to me.
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Oooh, I wasn’t paying attention. Yes, there must be some kind of Scottish ancestral connection that would oblige she/he/it/them to be revealed to you… maybe a name spell of some kind. 
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It would be great to document a live plesiosaurus. It is just that scientific research is a big killjoy. Detailed scanning of Loch Ness & e-DNA analyses killed the excitement and undermined the local tourist business. Science sucks…
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Definitely a killjoy. I’ve heard similar things about Bigfoot (environmental DNA turning up nothing).
I watched a National Geographic episode about Loch Ness recently that was really interesting – it was from a series called “Drain the Oceans,” and it talked about how Loch Ness has some very unusual currents because of its shape and location, such that it could make objects in the water appear to be “swimming” because the currents weren’t always visible from the surface. Fascinating stuff, but not something 12-year-old me would have wanted to hear.
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Something for this weekend. I have mixed emotions as Jon Crist has had his problems, but is still funny. Sort of like I feel about say, some of our problematic Christian theologic writers.
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its middle endian for tea for two
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At least it was #1. We had a pastor who occasionally would forget to turn off his mike at the end of the service, broadcasting the chatter. Fortunately, no confidential conversations.
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