Early 90's (I think) I went to the North American Chemical Congress in Toronto. About 22,000 attending. As I walked through Canadian Customs this women in a uniform gives me a very tired look and says "chemist?". I apologized and she laughed. -----Original Message----- From: Mark Roberts <m...@robertstech.com> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:22:22 To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List<pdml@pdml.net> Subject: Re: PESO - Famous Scientist (yet another one)
Matthew Hunt wrote: >On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 8:46 PM, Mark Roberts <m...@robertstech.com> wrote: > >> (BTW: You can tell they're academics just by the way they *look*, >> can't you?) > >I was once grocery shopping with my roommate, when we were grad >students. I don't remember what we were discussing, but it wasn't >work. We were in the produce section, and a guy came up to us and >asked, "Excuse me, are you two physicists? I have a question..." I was once in Atlanta for the WERA Grand national Finals (motorcycle roadracing thing) and went to dinner with a friend in a Chinese restaurant. When the waiter came to take our order he asked, "You guys motorcycle racers?". We replied, "Um yeah. How did you know?" "Oh" came the reply, "I can tell just by looking!" -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
