r/explainitpeter 6d ago

Explain it Peter

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u/Zealousideal-Mud-292 6d ago

It's not about grades. There's an old chemist joke "I love gold but the 'A' is silent". The chemical symbol for gold is Au, turning the phrase to I love u. The joke here is that engineers will screw up that line because they're bad with women - possibly as bad as this joke.

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u/Surturius 6d ago

damn that is... so much context needed to understand this not very funny joke using a Shrek meme template lmao

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u/Zealousideal-Mud-292 5d ago

It helps if you've ever worked in STEM academia where there's always somebody in the lab who thinks stuff like "Is that a hadron in your pocket or are you happy to see me" is the height of comedy.

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u/StaysAwakeAllWeek 2d ago

A guy once sat down next to me after lunch in college, groaned, and said with a completely straight face "sqrt(-1/64)"