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Things scientists say (as quotes from me and my coworkers):

"Gravity still works!" (Having just dropped a planchet)

"You get all the worm cans because you're the senior scientist."

"Is there a less convoluted way to do this?" "No."

"That is what we call alarming." (Drinking water sample three times the legal limit for alpha radiation.)

"Are you telling me we're making cheese in the detector?!"

"The science is not hard, the paperwork is hard."

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Grad student telling me about her new field site: "The ground is crabs."

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Resisting the urge to interrupt whatever my coworker is currently doing with: "Ready to go liquify some fish?!" (It is crucial that you imagine me saying this with an excessive and borderline obnoxious level of enthusiasm.)

I was told we would puree fish samples this afternoon. I am bored and would like to puree fish NOW but I am trying to be patient. So instead of saying this to my coworker I will explain it to all of you, the lovely citizens of the internet.

Oh and as I was writing this my boss walked in and was like DON'T UPLOAD ANY DATA THE LIMS IS GIVING IT TO CLIENTS BEFORE PEER REVIEW! Another day, another glitch.

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One of my coworkers always brings the senior scientist questions like "O senior scientist!" And it is so fucking funny. Moreso because it's rarely a good thing to need to ask the senior scientist - it usually means something's going wrong.

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Coworkers and I were discussing what the degree of common knowledge of radiation chemistry is and C went "when I was in middle school I used to read the Wikipedia pages on nuclear bombs."

So of course then I had to be like "when I was in middle school I did that with quantum physics and special relativity. Nuclear stuff was not one of my middle school obsessions."

Anyways, we have no idea what common knowledge is.

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Tritium in fish is such a good method for ridiculous quotes.

"Fish juice fish juice!"

"It looks like fish ice cream." "Yeah I used to say to [former coworker]: you want some soft serve?"

"And now we'll put it in the freezer - or fish pizza oven."

*tossing fish-juice-covered beaker in the trash* "Goodbye!"

"I can't believe this is my job." (While pureeing fish in a food processor)

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Senior scientist, explaining fume hood settings: "It's more like an emergency 'get these fumes out I just made mustard gas' button."

Me: "There's a button for that?!"

SS: "Yeah. There's an app for that, too (that's a joke)."