Re: [ccp4bb] [OT] Structure-related pun needed urgently

2019-08-15 Thread Ethan Merritt (UW)
On Thursday, 15 August 2019 13:42:10 Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote: > 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 >

Re: [ccp4bb] [OT] Structure-related pun needed urgently

2019-08-15 Thread Joshua-Tor, Leemor
To extend your gastromathematical curiosity in your signature - The circumference is two pies (2*pi*z)! Leemor On 8/15/19, 12:08 PM, "CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of Gerard DVD Kleywegt" wrote: You and me both! :-) --Gerard On Thu, 15 Aug 2019, Nigel Moriarty wrote

Re: [ccp4bb] [OT] Structure-related pun needed urgently

2019-08-15 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
t: [ccp4bb] [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

Re: [ccp4bb] [OT] Structure-related pun needed urgently

2019-08-15 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
You and me both! :-) --Gerard On Thu, 15 Aug 2019, Nigel Moriarty wrote: Everybody enjoys me modelling a protein, but not when I'm modelling shorts! Or Crocs. Nice legs! :-) Cheers Nigel --- Nigel W. Moriarty Building 33R0349, Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Lawrence Berke

Re: [ccp4bb] [OT] Structure-related pun needed urgently

2019-08-15 Thread Newman, Janet (Manufacturing, Parkville)
Email janet.new...@csiro.au From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of Gerard DVD Kleywegt Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2019 9:42 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] [OT] Structure-related pun needed urgently Dear CCP4BB-ers, Once again I turn to you in

Re: [ccp4bb] [OT] Structure-related pun needed urgently

2019-08-15 Thread Nigel Moriarty
Everybody enjoys me modelling a protein, but not when I'm modelling shorts! Or Crocs. Nice legs! :-) Cheers Nigel --- Nigel W. Moriarty Building 33R0349, Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Berkeley, CA 94720-8235 Phone : 510-486-5709 Email

Re: [ccp4bb] [OT] Structure-related pun needed urgently

2019-08-15 Thread Lijun Liu
Not sure if it is of the taste but I sometimes joked like: == It is a complex that it is a complex when a ligand rather than a water binds there. I worry about data security when running TLS, so to computer security when using TNT. I keep solving important structure

Re: [ccp4bb] [OT] Structure-related pun needed urgently

2019-08-15 Thread Tristan Croll
Everyone keeps telling me I look terrible, but I'm unphased... On 2019-08-15 12:42, Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote: 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 p

Re: [ccp4bb] [OT] Structure-related pun needed urgently

2019-08-15 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
5 August 2019 at 15:57 To: "CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK" Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] [OT] Structure-related pun needed urgently You're welcome to boo this one down, but how about something like, "With a some coaxing, a protein can be X-cited to expose its structure." I think that's poo

Re: [ccp4bb] [OT] Structure-related pun needed urgently

2019-08-15 Thread Thomas Edwards
quot;Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D." Reply-To: "Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D." Date: Thursday, 15 August 2019 at 15:57 To: "CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK" Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] [OT] Structure-related pun needed urgently You're welcome to boo this one down, but how about something like, &q

Re: [ccp4bb] [OT] Structure-related pun needed urgently

2019-08-15 Thread Daniel M. Himmel, Ph. D.
You're welcome to boo this one down, but how about something like, "With a some coaxing, a protein can be X-cited to expose its structure." I think that's poor, but maybe it's a starting point. -Daniel On Thu, Aug 15, 2019 at 7:42 AM Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote: > Dear CCP4BB-ers, > > Once agai

Re: [ccp4bb] [OT] Structure-related pun needed urgently

2019-08-15 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Thanks Bill. No need to restrict it to proteins - nucleic acids are fine (old chestnut: "DNA helicase unzips your genes!"), molecular machines are fine, even cellular structure is in scope. (If I still did crystallography, I could have gone with: "You don't have to use MAD to work here, but

Re: [ccp4bb] [OT] Structure-related pun needed urgently

2019-08-15 Thread William G. Scott
After reflecting on this a bit, I rejected anything dealing with glide planes, and although I initially thought I had something good involving a screw axis of evil, I decided it, too, would probably be lost in translation, not to mention a bit dated. Perhaps something more current, involving e

[ccp4bb] [OT] Structure-related pun needed urgently

2019-08-15 Thread Gerard DVD Kleywegt
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