Someone must put today’s xkcdto music. 
That was brilliant.
Awesome! I also liked the previous day’s comic, especially the mouseover because I do that too.
The Wiki page for “physics major” actually redirects to “physics education”. Which incidentally makes no sense, because most physics majors aren’t in physics education.
Wow, that was a masterpiece!
Wait, that’s today’s? I could have sworn I saw a comic last night about how every day 10,000 people learn a new fact, and instead of saying something like, “how do you not know about mentos and diet coke?” we should get excited and show people.
The Wiki page for physics major
redirects to “Physics ed”
Which incidentally makes no sense
Cause physics types (it must be said)
Do not teach. They have not studied
“Science, educational”
It’s simply not their forte
In all matters occupational.
(It’s simply not their forte in their matters occupational!)
ETA: After getting that song in your head, everything starts fitting into that damned rhyme scheme. 
The meter mostly fits, but Randal’s rhyme and phrasing is terrible. It would need it’s own arrangement of the Major General’s song to work.
The History Page for Wikipedia’s Physics Major redirect is pretty interesting.
It’s currently protected for the next week.
Enjoy,
Steven
All of those taking a physics major are in physics education. “Physics major” has no meaning outside of an educational context.
No, most of them aren’t. Most physics majors are learning how to do physics, not how to teach it. Physics education is a very specific subfield.
Awesome!
We’re already in picky semantic territory, but if you’re trying to define physics education as only ‘learning how to teach physics’, to me, that’s physics education education. Everybody who’s learning how to do physics is participating in the process of physics education, with themselves as the educated, and their professor as the educator. (Hopefully the educator has been through the physics education education.)
Interesting, but how could anyone rhyme “comparable” with “terrible”?
Gilbert, probably. Just to be contrary.
Roddy
I did, when I read the comic this morning. Out loud and everything.
All the “able” and “ible” words rhyme in my accent (I mean, that I can think of. I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s an exception or two).
I also remember seeing that.
Yeah, I saw that one too. What gives?
Or, what **ultrafilter **said. (Us folks beginning with U need to stick togetehr, don’t U think?)
Unless you mean the fact that there are three verses instead of two, I’m not sure what you are talking about. Looking at (and listening to) the score I found, I only see a rhythm problem in the last row of Munroe’s work, and it’s easy to gloss:
*By dubbing econ dismal science, adherents they exaggerate
The **"*dismal"'s fine–it’s “science” where they patently prevaricate
In terms of choice, I’d say that only Sophie’s was comparable.
Just put me down as “undecided”–every major’s terrible.
And, assuming that Munroe has the typical Midwestern accent, I only noticed two off-rhymes, “repeating it”/“teaching it” and “zodiac”/“[agora]phobiac,”. And neither are far enough off to be unacceptable. The only other thing I can think you are talking about are the rhymes with “terrible” but those are accurate in that accent. It has the marry/Mary/merry merger, so -air- and -err- rhyme, and, like most English accents, differences in schwas aren’t phonemic, so -ible and -able can rhyme, as mentioned above.
The guy in the video has trouble, but it seems to only be the problem I would have–I’ve never been able to do particularly fast diction like that. Someone who hasactually performed the original could probably do it easily. I hope the video creator gets his friend to try it.
Oy…
“…It’s a joke, son…”
Cecil had something to say about observations of that nature some years back (in his case having to do with cows vs. steers and General Mills vs. cornflakes)