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Nigel --- Nigel W. Moriarty Building 33R0349, Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, CA 94720-8235 Phone : 510-486-5709 Email : [email protected] Fax : 510-486-5909 Web : CCI.LBL.gov On Fri, Aug 16, 2019 at 5:58 AM Gerard DVD Kleywegt <[email protected]> wrote: > [Some of you asked for the final outcome of the exercise.] > > Well, I've been "porin" over all suggestions. Some where "on the edge", > but > most were a "barrel" of fun. Good to see that the community was on the > same > wavelength. > > I narrowed it down to three options (with the additional imposed > constraint > that it had to be ~6-8 words): > > (1) "Who needs Aphrodite when there's protein structures?" (inspired by > Savvas > Savvides) > > (2) "I'm better at modelling proteins than at modelling shorts" (inspired > by > Nigel Moriarty) > > (3) "Structural biology: it's a vision thing" (inspired by George H.W. > Bush) > > Two of these were rejected by Comms (for reasons you may not believe) so > the > surprising winner is... nr 2! Thanks Nigel! > > Thanks again for all your good-humoured contributions! > > --Gerard > > > > > > On Fri, 16 Aug 2019, Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote: > > > I'm afraid so. That was just a phase I went through yesterday (albeit > with > > great intensity). > > > > Thanks to everybody who replied on-line and off-line! > > > > --Gerard > > > > > > > > On Fri, 16 Aug 2019, Helen Ginn wrote: > > > >> Am I too late to start Bragging about my favourite crystallography > puns? > >> > >> Helen > >> > >> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 13:42:10 +0200 > >> From: Gerard DVD Kleywegt <[email protected]> > >> Subject: [OT] Structure-related pun needed urgently > >> > >> Dear CCP4BB-ers, > >> > >> Once again I turn to you in my hour of need. I *urgently* need a > >> side-splittingly funny, and ideally punny, structure-related > >> sentence/statement/claim/expression to put in a speech bubble attached > to > >> a > >> life-size bobblehead version of yours truly (don't ask)! > >> > >> I know there are some very funny people on CCP4BB. The best I've been > able > >> to > >> come up with myself so far is: "Protein structures are beautiful, but I > >> try to > >> keep it platomic" - which is pretty lame, I know. > >> > >> Many thanks in advance! > >> > >> --Gerard > >> > >> ****************************************************************** > >> Gerard J. Kleywegt > >> > >> > ######################################################################## > >> > >> To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > >> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > >> > > > > > > Best wishes, > > > > --Gerard > > > > ****************************************************************** > > Gerard J. Kleywegt > > > > http://xray.bmc.uu.se/gerard mailto:[email protected] > > ****************************************************************** > > The opinions in this message are fictional. Any similarity > > to actual opinions, living or dead, is purely coincidental. > > ****************************************************************** > > Little known gastromathematical curiosity: let "z" be the > > radius and "a" the thickness of a pizza. Then the volume > > of that pizza is equal to pi*z*z*a ! > > ****************************************************************** > > > > ######################################################################## > > > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > > > > > Best wishes, > > --Gerard > > ****************************************************************** > Gerard J. Kleywegt > > http://xray.bmc.uu.se/gerard mailto:[email protected] > ****************************************************************** > The opinions in this message are fictional. Any similarity > to actual opinions, living or dead, is purely coincidental. > ****************************************************************** > Little known gastromathematical curiosity: let "z" be the > radius and "a" the thickness of a pizza. Then the volume > of that pizza is equal to pi*z*z*a ! > ****************************************************************** > > ######################################################################## > > To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: > https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 > ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1
