RE: [neonixie-l] Looking for group banner home page photos...

[chuck richards]

Well I just attempted to send you a photo Nick, but your
email address rejected my message as spam.

Chuck

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From: ni...@desmith.net
To: neoni...@googlegroups.com
Subject: [neonixie-l] Looking for group banner home page photos...
Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 02:40:09 -0800 (PST)

>Some may have noticed the nice home page image at
>https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/neonixie-l
><https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/neonixie-l>
>
>I'l looking for contributions, maybe of people's projects, maybe just
>
>neon-related images like the current one... just for rotating on the
>home
>page.
>
>Thanks
>
>Nick
>
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[lai...@wcoil.com]

I laughed so hard I bumped my neon the table. Fortunately I wasn't hurt, I
had thick pants on as summer days argon. These puns were a noble gas but
most people would want to barium.
Tim Laing

[Nicholas Stock]

Ba-boom..

Nice one Tim, that made me chuckle.

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[lai...@wcoil.com]

On reflection these were so bad I should take them to the krypton the hill
for proper disposal.

[lai...@wcoil.com]

My wife reported me to the pun police and they made a radon the house and
confiscated my pun dictionary.

[Quixotic Nixotic]

The real joke is that I got those photos from Ebay years ago. I did some photoshop work to Gucci them up a bit. A company had made the tubes of all the noble gases for a museum exhibit showing the entire periodic table of the elements. There was a set of tubes left over and they were schlocked out on Ebay. As I recall the entire set went for something really ridiculous like £110 GBP. I'd assumed they would be well out of my league and I was kicking myself for not bidding. I wonder who got 'em and what they did with them? It wasn't one of you fellahs, was it?

I'll go and build a shrubbery...

John S

[Quixotic Nixotic]

On 4 Mar 2015, at 18:18, lai...@wcoil.com wrote:

> My wife reported me to the pun police and they made a radon the house and
> confiscated my pun dictionary.

In my home town there was an undertakers called Wake and Pain and a butchers called Caress and Seymour. I grew up on this stuff. I once passed a business that said Eureka Fish Company and I don't think they meant it jocularly.

Shall we get onto Spoonerisms now or shall we solder on regardless? US people won't get that as they call solder sarder. Do they call a soldier a sardiar over there?

John S

[Quixotic Nixotic]

> Shall we get onto Spoonerisms now or shall we solder on regardless? US people won't get that as they call solder sarder. Do they call a soldier a sardiar over there?
>
> John S

When I said 'US people' I should have said 'Merkins', as in 'Ma fellow Merkins'. If you need to look up merkin, just don't, OK?

Hair today, gone tomorrow,

John S

[John Rehwinkel]

> On reflection these were so bad I should take them to the krypton the hill
> for proper disposal.

This one actually honors the word roots. "Krypton" comes from the Greek "kryptos" meaning "hidden". A crypt derives from the same root. Also, unsurprisingly, "cryptography".

Helium comes from "helios" (the sun), as it was first discovered by its spectral lines in the solar spectrum.

Neon comes from directly from the Greek "neon", meaning "new". If I had named it, I'd have gone for "glowing red" or something, as it outshines all the other gases by a large margin.

Argon comes from the Greek "argos", meaning "inactive".

Radon was, of course, named after radium (in turn from the Latin "radius", meaning "ray"), but was originally called "niton" after the Latin "nitens", meaning "shining".

The more you know...

- John