[Some of you asked for the final outcome of the exercise.]
Well, I've been "porin" over all suggestions. Some where "on the edge", but
most were a "barrel" of fun. Good to see that the community was on the same
wavelength.
I narrowed it down to three options (with the additional imposed constraint
that it had to be ~6-8 words):
(1) "Who needs Aphrodite when there's protein structures?" (inspired by Savvas
Savvides)
(2) "I'm better at modelling proteins than at modelling shorts" (inspired by
Nigel Moriarty)
(3) "Structural biology: it's a vision thing" (inspired by George H.W. Bush)
Two of these were rejected by Comms (for reasons you may not believe) so the
surprising winner is... nr 2! Thanks Nigel!
Thanks again for all your good-humoured contributions!
--Gerard
On Fri, 16 Aug 2019, Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote:
> I'm afraid so. That was just a phase I went through yesterday (albeit with
> great intensity).
>
> Thanks to everybody who replied on-line and off-line!
>
> --Gerard
>
>
>
> On Fri, 16 Aug 2019, Helen Ginn wrote:
>
>> Am I too late to start Bragging about my favourite crystallography puns?
>>
>> Helen
>>
>> Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2019 13:42:10 +0200
>> From: Gerard DVD Kleywegt <[log in to unmask]>
>> Subject: [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 of yours truly (don't ask)!
>>
>> I know there are some very funny people on CCP4BB. The best I've been able
>> to
>> come up with myself so far is: "Protein structures are beautiful, but I
>> try to
>> keep it platomic" - which is pretty lame, I know.
>>
>> Many thanks in advance!
>>
>> --Gerard
>>
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>
>
> Best wishes,
>
> --Gerard
>
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