The Last Post Game!!!!

[Sibling Chatty]

Relax, it's over, quit hypersecreting!!

Doctor? Doctor!! Wow, and I know you when you were just another stone head... 



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[Aggie]

But the cost! If I had had the question to answer who was the largest producer of hydrochloric acid at the moment I would have had to answer that it was my stomach. I actually felt it creeping up the esophagus.
_{and I ate some antacide literally seconds before the exam started}

I always went into exam season with a pocketful of caffeine tablets and antacids (the latter to combat the excess HCl induced by the former). 

(never had much use for ant-killers, though)

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[Griffin NoName]

Doctor Swato sounds pretty scarey.

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[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

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[Swatopluk]

Thank guys (and guyinas )!
Looking into the modification wishes of the 2nd reviewer of the thesis, there will be some work to do. She seems to be extremly nitpicky, e.g. demanding a proof that the contergan case is indeed the most notorious case of the different effect of s- and r- enantiomers. Whateverhigherbeingdamn! It's about the only case that became in any way "popular", i.e. widely known to non-experts*. Or I used a graphic from wikicommons (not to proof anything but as a simple illustration) and get informed that anything wiki is non-citable in any form.
Well, there are people that consider encyclopedias in general as insufficiently reliable.

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*quick: name 3 other cases everyone knows about 

[pieces o nine]

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[Aggie]

*quick: name 3 other cases everyone knows about 

Diastereoisomers, maybe (Vitamin E comes to mind) - enantiomers, not so much. And I've been taught about enantiomers.  'Notorious' seems like the correct word for thalidomide. 

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[Swatopluk]

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[Aggie]

Ah, the most satisfying way to deal with nitpickers....  question overkill to determine EXACTLY what they want to see.  Some nitpickers actually enjoy the process, but at least the nitpicking becomes preemptive.


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[Swatopluk]

Should be a good protein source. But the chitin is difficult to digest.

Last btw, the German (rough) equivalent to nitpicker translates as raisin-shitter* Post

*I think the Erbsenzähler (pea counter) is originally English

[Scriblerus the Philosophe]

...btw, the German (rough) equivalent to nitpicker translates as raisin-shitter...

*I think the Erbsenzähler (pea counter) is originally English

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[Bob in a quantum-state-of-faith]

If some folk didn't have all those nits to pick, their very reason to get up in the morning would vanish.

I pity them.

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[Swatopluk]

What's worse: lice or vice*?

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*excluding Cheney

[Griffin NoName]

I tend to assume that nitpicking is a sign that they can't actually find anything to criticise. Or they themselves have "Status Anxiety".

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[Swatopluk]

Depends on the mixture. Complaints about obsolete claims are completely justified.
The problem is to be up-to-date in a fast changing environment as biochemistry* given the subscription fees for the relevant journals. It is like claiming that Helmut Kohl is the CDU candidate for the German chancellorship because the available printed encyclopedia says so and all newspapers that could claim otherwise (by virtue of being more up-to-date) would be behind prescription walls beyond your financial abilities.


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*anything is obsolete before it reaches the stage of "printed in a book" (and even more so before the library actually acquires the book)