No – we have hot water bottles. 
Yeah, but a hot water bottle isn’t half as much fun.
Depends who the hot water bottle is.
Damn myself, why can’t I ever have a useful contribution to a thread.
Yup. That’s kids. It’s not just worst cases, they seem to like paradoxes and infinities and things as well - basically extrapolating to the hilt imho.
Did you answer them to their satisfaction?
This is true 
You’re a Cambridge mathmo. 'Nuff said. ducks and runs
Yup. Got lots of reactions along the lines of “cool”, “wow”, and really got them interested. I think the fact that I look nothing like your typical physicist also helped.
Can someone please do me a favour?
Can you please send me Mick Jagger? Much appreciated. Cheers. A healthy dose of Hugh Grant in a non-poncey outfit wouldn’t go down badly at all, in case Mick is in the retirement home already.
You can have Mick Jagger, but the floppy haired, blue eyed bundle of gorgeousness that is Hugh Grant, stays here! He’s mine damnit!!
OK, a relevant contribution would do. (Which I suppose I might have made in a couple of threads about infinity…)
Actually, the few physicists I know are in fact flirtatious females. But I accept that’s not typical 
Glad it went well. If only more children could be genuinely enthused by their school.
Wow. Just wow. Why didn’t I meet more of them? I wouldn’t have felt like such a freak! Mind you, I was at the Cav.
Indeed. It would make my job a heck of a lot easier. I’ve been invited back to give the same talk to the other half of year 10. So I suppose it went really well. 
You go girl - keep at it and pretty soon you’ll be favourite to take over the sky at night when patrick moore finally kicks the bucket
Perhaps you made the mistake of not joining the Tolkein society? Or perhaps “In every generation, a female physicist is born…”
Well, they were enthused after you left. Enough teachers like you… Except that it’s impossible to keep up enthusiasm for teaching for a whole year, and that really understanding one thing leads to not having time to understand at all a lot of other things on a syllabus 
thinks about this As long as I wouldn’t have to wear a monacle, or anything like that.
Shade there’s three fairly outgoing female physicists in my group in my year.
I couldn’t teach as a full time career. I’ll do little bits here and there whilst being an academic.
What?
Now, Annie, my dear, I know that this thread has had more tangents than a convention of…what are they called?..Euclidean geometrists/geometricians, but wherethebloodyhell did that come from?
Mick Jagger?!?!?
Are you on a grant from Age Concern or something?
I hope so, because otherwise, I’ll be sending the men in white coats round. And as for Hugh Grant <derisory cough> well, you can do far better than that!
Floppy-haired, gurning nitwit.
(Him - I mean, not you)
Hugh Grant’s not a gurning nitwit! Although, I have to say Collin Farrell and Viggo Mortisen are far better.
I’ll heartily second the Viggo Mortensen. Shaven, or stubbly?
Stubbly. Definitely. He looks very very sexy that way.
Heh. When I first wrote “subbly”, I mistyped and wrote “studdly” instead.
please don’t start me on Hugh Grant. stupid floppy haired one trick pony. all his films are absolute dogshit. all of them. the man has no redeeming features or qualities whatsoever.
can anybody tell I was forced to sit through half of mickey fucking blue eyes last night? even when i’d just got Gangs of New York on DVD. Gaaa!
That’s not nice. I thought he was good in “About a Boy”. Still, I suppose each to his own.
curlychick, this thread is about LondonDope, right?
Londondope makes me think of London.
Which makes me think of Knightsbridge.
Which makes me think of the lyrics to Rolling Stones songs.
Which makes me think of the Rolling Stones.
Which makes me think of Mick Jagger.
Which makes me think things I can’t repeat in mixed company.
Viola. As they say.
Good grief, I am so bored. This paper on magnetic driving of relativistic outflows in active galactic nuclei is so dry.
Still, I get the day off tomorrow to go to Foxton, to talk to people about a residential school that I’m going to help lead, so you won’t hear from me tomorrow at all. Aren’t you all happy.
Random word association is fun.
See - Foxton I associate with Cambridge (since they’re so close)
Cambridge I associate with the Pickerel (a pub therein)
The Pickerel I associate with BEER!!!
Beer is good.
No, but you might have to learn the xylophone.
Pa-pa-pa-pa-pa…