…of a brittle silvery-coloured substance with an unusual propensity to expand upon freezing; more precisely, a pentavalent post-transition metal with the atomic number 83.
I asked a friend to look after it for me.
He told me to mind my own bismuth.
minibreakfast says
*snort*
Black Celebration says
I was officially diagnosed with narcissism last week. I had a long look in the mirror after that news.
Jeff says
Two people said that to me last week.
Anyway, enough about them…
(Btw, weren’t we supposed to be meeting in That London this evening for a micro-mingle? At your suggestion? Cleared my diary, I did. Spurned, I feel. Y’big bastard. With all due respect.)
Black Celebration says
Mate … I am very sorry about that. I was torn because meeting a dear old pal of mine was rearranged – and could only be done on that Thursday, so I quietly let the mingle idea drop. Very few people seemed to be into the idea anyway. Although it would be great to meet up, from my p.o.v. there was a risk that nobody would be there.
If you (or anybody if the Massive firmament) happen to be in the Old Nell of Drury in Catherine Street tonight after 8pm, I will be there. It’s my last night before going back to NZ – I am 50, very tall, wearing green checked shirt and jeans.
retropath2 says
Shirt sounds good but matching green checked jeans, jeez!!
Jeff says
*sobs*
*quells wobbling lip*
*puts on Brave Soldier face*
*blinks back tears*
*musters weak smile*
‘s ok.
*sniffs*
Actually, I say ‘cleared my diary’, I mean ‘brushed pastry crumbs off my phone Calendar’.
No probs, chum.
Hope the checked green jeans didn’t get you into any trouble this evening, and I wish you bon jovi on your journey back to the Land Of The Long Cloud And Those Bloodybloody All-Blacks.
Black Celebration says
Thanks Jeff – and I really am sorry for not following through. I am also relieved to have not followed through in my checked green jeans last night. These things can be a bit touch and go when you’re in your 50s…
madfox says
I borrowed a large amount of the chemical element with the atomic number 53 from my mate Dean. Now I owe Dean.
Vulpes Vulpes says
Gotta do this:
Rigid Digit says
Sodium sodium sodium sodium sodium sodium, sodium sodium sodium, Hey Jude
madfox says
Took me a few seconds. Nice.
Arthur Cowslip says
Took me more than a few seconds
… Then I got it JUST before I was about to come clean and ask you to explain…
retropath2 says
Nope, until I nearly finished typing. Sodium x 8, Hey x 2, Goodbye from Murray the Potash.
Holonium doesn’t do it justice.
Mike_H says
Molecules in love..
Jeff says
I’ve always wondered, is a Periodic Table the same as an Occasional Table?
And, if so, what are they the rest of the time?
Rigid Digit says
A temporary chair?
Jeff says
That would make sense, I’m happy with that.
I’ll sleep well tonight.
Uncle Wheaty says
As one of the characters on Father Ted would say:
Iron Carbon Potassium
Uncle Wheaty says
Or if he was being really rude:
Iron Carbon Potassium Oxygen Fluorine Fluorine Potassium Nitrogen Oxygen Boron Helium Rubidium
mrxsg says
My wife’s a pharmacist. You just made her laugh.
Uncle Wheaty says
Glad I can make a fellow pharmacist smile.
Twang says
I have a 12″ vinyl disk with grooves on it. Is this a record?
bengwy says
I got my friends an elephant for their living room.
They said thanks.
I said “don’t mention it”.
Baron Counterpane says
After leaving Sheffield University in the mid 80s (very mid actually, 85) I briefly did some voluntary work experience at the city’s Central Library. One of the units in the library is (still as far as I know) the World Metal Index, which keeps records of the “recipes” for particular types of steel etc. They also keep copies of metallurgy-related journals, magazines and other publications. Among these was The Bismuth Journal.
I briefly considered subscribing but decided that The Word made for better on-the-bog reading.
retropath2 says
Best on the bog reading is The Barium Journal. You are guaranteed to finish it, cover to cover, classified ads and all if you have ever had one of their “meals”. Flush and flush away, it will stay forever in mute intransigence, meaning you can never leave.
Uncle Wheaty says
I prefer Sodium Monthly during my once a month linseed oil dip but it is nicely juxtaposed by my weekly Magnesium Flash that I can read in a second.
Sewer Robot says
Coooo. I remember that cheap paper they used to have in the school toilets: many an Arsenic I got from that..
Jeff says
Can I tell my Barium Enema anecdote?