Critical mass: A bunch of people who don’t like what you’re doing, and let you know.
spin: the effort to make the positions of particles more credible/tenable while impugning the positions of antiparticles
Hard Drive Original name for the movie The Fast and the Furious
Degaussing: The process of becoming a French sculptor.
Anaplasia: daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, rumored to have survived her family’s executions.
Bilirubin: Brad Dourif’s character in, “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.”
Genus: A really smart gal.
Cartesian Coordinates: René? Where’s the location of that well out back?
bismuth: A word used to indicate absolute certainty, as in “Bismuth be the place!”
-“BB”-
Sulfate: The airline captain who landed the jet plane on the Hudson River a while back. “Sulfy,” for short.
Oxygen: To create more opioids.
Lithium: asking for a demonstration, e.g. “you say you got 'em? Lithium.”
Concave: Where Bernie Madoff tried to hide out.
spectral lines: “If ever thy dear father thou didst love, list, list, o list”
dwarf star: Michael Dunn, Verne Troyer, Warwick Davis, Billy Barty, Hervé Villechaize, or Kenny Baker, among others
-“BB”-
prime numbers: hit songs from musicals
Convex: To really annoy Bernie Madoff.
red dwarf: communist pier
Riemann tensor: something that makes Riemann nervous
Surface Tension: I’m just fine after that audit, no, really.
The f%&#*@ hell I am; where's my @#^&^#$%& gun?