Up and Down
What is small, round, green and goes up and down? – A green-pea in an elevator. Qu’est-ce qui est. petit, rond, vert, et qui monte et qui descend ? – Un petit pois dans un ascenseur. Source C. Brown. (2024) Personal Communication.
Word Play
Polyglots
2 polyglots meet in a bar:– Hey, what’s up, how’s it going these days?– Same old, just polishing my Finnish… and you?– You know me, still trying to finish my Polish. 2 polyglottia kohtaavat baarissa: – Hei, mitä kuuluu, miten menee näinä päivinä? – Sama vanha, vain hiomassa suomeani… ja sinä? – Tiedät minut, yritän
Scandinavian Joke
It would be Swede if I could Finnish it, but right now there’s just Norway. Olen työskennellyt skandinaavisen vitsin parissa. Se olisi ruotsalainen, jos osaisin sen suomeksi, mutta nyt on vain Norja. Source “Finnish Jokes.” Upjoke, www.upjoke.com/finnish-jokes. Accessed 11 May 2024.
A Good Cry
What do you call someone who is from Patra and is crying? Cleopatra – Πώς λέγεται αυτή που είναι από την Πάτρα και κλαίει;– Κλεοπάτρα (Κλαιω=Crying) Anonymous
Physicists at Leisure
What is an atomic physicist’s favorite leisure activity? Nuclear fishin’. Thompson, Linda
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The Crime Novel
Who is an atomic physicist’s favorite crime novel main character? Perry Meson.* Thompson, Linda. * A meson is a subatomic particle which is intermediate in mass between an electron and a proton and transmits the strong interaction that binds nucleons together in the atomic nucleus.
The Novelist
Who is an atomic physicist’s favorite spy novelist? Ion Fleming. Source: Weschler, Jeffrey. “Daily Crossword.” L.A. Times, 21 Jan. 2022.
The Wall
What worker is an atomic physicist’s favorite wall builder? Stone meson.* Weschler, Jeffrey. “Daily Crossword.” L.A. Times, 21 Jan. 2022. * A meson is a subatomic particle which is intermediate in mass between an electron and a proton and transmits the strong interaction that binds nucleons together in the atomic nucleus.
The Side Dish
What is an atomic physicist’s favorite side dish? Boson* baked beans. Source: Weschler, Jeffrey. “Daily Crossword.” L.A. Times, 21 Jan. 2022. * A boson is a subatomic particle that has a spin in integer values such as zero, one, two, etc. It is named for the Indian mathematician and physicist S.N. Bose.
Physics and the Movies
Who is an atomic physicist’s favorite Golden Age movie star? Quark* Gable. Source: Weschler, Jeffrey. “Daily Crossword.” L.A. Times, 21 Jan. 2022. * Quarks are subatomic particles that form the building blocks of protons and neutrons. They were named by physicist Murray Gell-Mann as a reference to a passage in James Joyce’s Finnegan’s Wake.
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