trading under the name iChromatography ?
Oooh, sounds like they have some association with You Know Who - very bad for the reputation! They should stick to AnalTech.
An American company implausibly named AnalTech – no, really – has been slammed hard enough for a hazardous materials response team to be called out to deal with the smell. A pick-up truck ploughed through the wall of AnalTech, which insists it is an analytical technology firm, early on Tuesday morning, as reported by Delaware …
Anyone who says that playground humour has become more prevalent since the 60s should talk to my colleague Buster Gonads who can testicle to the fact that no such trend is observable. In fact any such claims are unfeasibly large porkies. Just today I walked into a restaurant and asked the waitress for an opinion on toilet humour, and she gave me one. What more proof do you need?
Buster is, of course, a child of the eighties shirley? Also, if she gave me one is an example of toilet humour you may be doing on out of excreting and reproduction wrong. I think the canonical form is a man walks into the bar and asks for a double entendre so the barmaid gives him one.
"Do other languages have equivalent phrases, I wonder."
Insofar as "that's what she said" and "...as the actress said to the Bishop" are both Wellerisms, yes, other languages have those.
@'s water music
I would disagree with the canonical form, more likely to be "a girl walks into the bar and asks for a double entendre so the barman gives her one."
Before we get all PC, common colloquial usage of giving one, is overwhelmingly M to F, so joke should reflect that.
As it's a real company name, and the subheading is about smell, the Viz part of the brain started up, and reached the conclusion that it was an identification of persons via their unique personal gaseous emanations.
Not my fault, it was someone on a forum eons ago suggesting that arse-prints could be unique identifiers and number two factor authentication is a logical step.
Not my fault, it was someone on a forum eons ago suggesting that arse-prints could be unique identifiers and number two factor authentication is a logical step.
Motion detection is already a common part of security systems, unless I've misunderstood the term.
Who remembers the CDC and "Back Orifice?"
Or the rather natty Green on Black teeshirt?
Joking aside it is of course all about the pronouciation. Anal as in "analysis" of course.
Like that classic spoof dog food commercial. "Mate, with added vigor."
"arse-prints could be unique identifiers"
So that Christmas party when the copier glass got cracked wasn't really hijinks? It was somebody trying to login to release their prints? Well that's disappointing...
What about the arseprints on the boardroom table?
If you read the actual reports, they're quite sober and matter-of-fact. The officials should have had some idea about what they were to encounter, if the facility was licenced in any way. Hazmat was brought in to handle any cleanup, but really a company in that business should be quite capable of handling its own spills. As for the smell, my money is on DMSO or possibly chloroform/dichloromethane, typical TLC solvents, although not usually used to make TLC plates. Neither alcohols nor hydrocarbons would have excited anybody nearly as much.
BTW, in this context getting a "thumbs up" isn't nearly as gratifying as you might think.
Reminds me of the last time I flew into Gatwick on Fleasy Jet
The plane stopped at the end of the runway for 5 minutes surrounded by the flashing lights of the emergency dept! After we started taxing to the terminal the pilot explained over the PA that there had been a report of a funny smell in the aircraft.
Well, I'm pretty certain the smell was just an extremely smelly fart! (Not from me I hasten to add!) Well I guess a fart is flamable!
"... AnalTech is a maker of chromatography plates but that its history stretches back to the 1960s. The company allegedly accepted a suggestion by a local marketing firm to name itself AnalTech back then ..."
A prank that keeps on giving for half a century... there should be some sort of award for this.