Q: What do you get when you cross Ace of Base with Lords of Acid?
A: Veruca Salt!
Get it?
I didn't, but I could stand a little pity now and then.
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Today's Chemistry Joke
08 Aug 2007 08:12 am
Comments (16)
I can only assume that they mean mixing sodium hydroxide (NaOH, a base) with hydrochloric acid (HCl, an acid), which would give you water (H2O) and salt (NaCl).
That's about the shape of things.
Dude, you shoulda posted "Seether..." Better song, better video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AI95BVkiW0
Any pair of counterions is generally referred to as a salt, not just NaCl. So if you had ammonium hydroxide (a base) and acetic acid you would end up with the salt ammonium acetate. So the literal answer to the joke would be something like Lord Ace salt. I don't know what that has to do with Veruca Salt other than the fact that their name has the word salt in it- is one of the members of the former now in the latter or something? Why not Salt n' Peppa?
That's very clever! As long as we're posting high-school nerd humor:
Q: What did Sigmund Freud say was between "fear" and "sex?"
A: "Fünf."
(It works better if you say it aloud, preferably to a class of German 3 students whose first language is English.)
Rereading that, a more clever response would be Salt n' Wata, since when you mix a (Bronsted) acid and base you always get water and some type of salt. (There's another class of acids and bases called Lewis that don't necessarily give you water upon reaction.)
This has been your nerdiness for the day.
Zing!
I knew the guitar tab for "Seether" in 8th grade.
SP and Khaled, you are clearly a pair of humorless chemistry teachers whose one-hour lectures must always feel ten hours long. I pity your students.
a more clever response would be Salt n' Wata
Unfortunately, since there isn't actually a musical act called Salt 'n' Wata, it wouldn't be clever at all. I restate my my 9:16 comment.
Just to spare this comment thread from the ignominy it so richly deserves, it's "Salt-N-Pepa"
..and just to stick my oar in again, I suppose it would've been chemically correct if the answer was "Veruca Salt" (or "Salt-N-Pepa") and the Waterboys.
Or Bongwater.
I agree with Richard. You have one chance to post a Veruca Salt video and you don't post "Seether"? Weak sauce, my friend.
Come for the political analysis, stay for the puns.
Chemistry nerd humor? Really?
I'm bemused, baffled, and slightly annoyed by people who think they're pointing out something you missed just because you didn't go for the pedestrianly obvious. Yeah, you missed a real chance to expose people to Seether here, Matt. Damn. Now nobody gets to hear it.
Come for the political analysis, get exposed to the "Seether" haters -- who also probably hate Nina Gordon's cover of "Straight Outta Compton."
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Heads in the Sand
I can only assume that they mean mixing sodium hydroxide (NaOH, a base) with hydrochloric acid (HCl, an acid), which would give you water (H2O) and salt (NaCl). If there's additional meaning to the joke, I can't see it, but this got a chuckle out of me anyway.
Posted by Khaled | August 8, 2007 8:29 AM