Islets of Langerhans.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 76: Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Foaminess
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, butt kicking, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Emily - Feb 05, 2019 6:05:35 pm PST #4809 of 30019
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Connie Neil - Feb 05, 2019 6:19:05 pm PST #4810 of 30019
brillig
The vas deferens, because it makes great body part puns, especially when you get to explain what it is. Men twitch.
Steph L. - Feb 05, 2019 6:24:51 pm PST #4811 of 30019
It's actually been a really hard year, when you stop and do the math. Eliot would cry, too, if it didn't take him seventy minutes of therapy, two cocktails, and a Sondheim medley before he can experience a human emotion through the haze of his PTSD.
Islets of Langerhans.
This still sounds like a prize on The Price Is Right: an all-expense-paid vacation to the Islets of Langerhans!
billytea - Feb 05, 2019 6:41:58 pm PST #4812 of 30019
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
The Golgi apparatus!
Or the smoove endoplasmic reticulum. ("There will be phospholipids also.")
Emily - Feb 05, 2019 6:50:40 pm PST #4813 of 30019
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Latus rectum would be good, except it only sounds like a body part, while actually being math.
Katerina Bee - Feb 05, 2019 7:17:29 pm PST #4814 of 30019
Herding cats for fun
Gotta go with the Xiphoid Process.
sarameg - Feb 05, 2019 7:21:23 pm PST #4815 of 30019
My boss spent the last few months wedding dress shopping with her late SIL for her (boss's, children of the late) niece & nephew's bride to be (and bridesmaid dress shopping with the cousins.) There was supposed to be 2 weddings this summer, & mom was doing aaaaallll the planning. Wah.
-t - Feb 05, 2019 7:50:16 pm PST #4816 of 30019
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Oh, that poor family. That hurts.
Calli - Feb 06, 2019 1:22:39 am PST #4817 of 30019
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
Emily, I'm sorry for your loss. Your father sounds like an amazing person.
lisah - Feb 06, 2019 3:29:11 am PST #4818 of 30019
Punishingly Intricate
I'm so sorry for your loss, Emily.