Overheard (grad student to under-student):
That's a lot of microlitres!
A very subtle way of saying "You screwed up your dilutions, didn't you?".
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Reminds me of that classic line in the movie Dune: when Paul first sees the underground water reservoir, he says something like [awed voice] "there must be millions of dekalitres".
Canada had just gone metric. The audience burst out laughing.
This story may be apocryphal as I can't find any references to this line in the dodgy online version of the screenplay though...
Posted by: Whiffling totally irrelevantly | June 13, 2007 11:16 AM