ACIE dead people
October 11th, 2008 by excimerI might be channelling Kefka here, but I hate hate HATE Angewandte Chemie’s RSS feeds.[1] Just a title, no authors, and sometimes (sometimes!) a link to the paper, which frequently doesn’t even work. Their website has graphical abstracts and they don’t put them on the RSS feeds- how lazy is that? Now I could be like Mitch and make my own RSS feeder complete with graphical abstracts, but I have a cat who thinks my free time is better spent devoting all my time petting him and feeding him cheezburgers. My programming skills have thus deteriorated to the point where the only language I know is lolcode. Oh, and fortran. Lolcode is more useful though.[2]
But! There’s a silver lining to the shitty gray cloud of ACIE’s Early View page: puns in the bylines. Oh my god. Puns in a serious chemistry journal. Now I have to admit here: I love puns. They are the highest form of humor, next to lolcats and poop jokes. And lately, some of the puns have been absolutely fabulous. Here are some of my favorites (and no, not all of them are puns, but pop culture references are also awesome).
Feel free to share your own in the comments. You can add images by clicking the link below the comment box.
Get it? Cause it's about cellulose?
Scully thinks they should recheck the NMR, though. (Incidentally, my friend Adrian co-authored this paper- go Adrian!)
The only time Steve Buchwald and 'foxy' should be used in the same sentence is to describe his totally sweet biarylphosphine ligands.
M-m-m-m-my corona! 80's fever sweeps ACIE. [3]
![...and now they're discoing right into the 70's... [4]](http://www.coronene.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/laclick1.png "laclick1")
...and now they're discoing right into the 70's... [4]
If you've ever been to London, then you know what's up.
Oh. I see what you did there.
Well, not all of them are good...
Okay, maybe it's time to stop, guys.
This is a pun on a really old song from the 20's... they rejected the original byline, 'This shit is bananas. B-A-N-A-N-A-S.'
[1] Run, run, or you’ll be well done!
[2] hehehe, speaking of lolpuns: 
[3] From “My Sharona”
[4] From that fabulous 70’s disco hit “Le Freak”
I’m glad I’m not the only one who reads the ACIE graphical abstracts solely for the puns. I’m submitting a paper to ACIE soon, but for the life of me, I can’t think of a doozy pun for the graphical. I feel unworthy.
One of the great advantages of carbohydrate chemistry is I’ve got a million puns already… Especially when you add New Zealand slang to the mix:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sweet%20as
Wow, those made my head hurt, but I don’t know if in a good way or not
whenever Germans make humor, the World takes long time to recover
omg guys, how about this one
this reminds me one awful joke about Tina Turner, Niki Lauda and reconstructive surgery
“ACIE Dead people”
I JUST got that.
I think I might have failed as a human being.
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By the way, you’ve been served. Congrats.
Ah, my lovely Germans.
If they start making Britney puns, I’m out.
Puns are OK, but I like acronyms. My first published paper was on a technique called “Electron Impact Excitation of Ions from Organics (EIEIO).” Nevertheless, it’s hard to compete with the NMR guys when it comes to funny acronyms…
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