Mmmm, nucular ..

The spirit of adventure is alive and well in me. Today instead of just eating my Atkins bar, I decided to nuke it in a microwave for 15 seconds. Well, it became much more edible!
Guess I was not the first one to figure this out.

Speaking about nucular. One of my favorite magazines, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, had a very funny article about mispronunciation of "nuclear". Homer Simpson is not the only offender in this matter. Eisenhower , Reagan, Bush-I usually said something like "NOO-kyoo-lur", "NU-kyuh-ler" or "NU-cu-lar". Carter, in a class of his own, liked to reminisce about being a "nu-KEE-ar engineer" (I wonder, was he the only engineer among American presidents?)

One of my favorite FIDO origin lines from was "I put instant coffee in the microwave oven and almost went back in time." I don't advise it, even for time traveling :)

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Tue, 08/02/2005 - 07:12 — Dave (not verified)

Herbert Hoover was a very respected mining engineer and Thomas Jefferson was a prolific architect, inventor, and tinkerer.

Fri, 01/20/2006 - 13:07 — Cleo Cat (not verified)

wow... FIDO... That's one of my favorite quotes about the microwave! haha. wow... amazing to see someone else quote that, hehe...

Fri, 01/20/2006 - 19:58 — deadprogrammer

It's an oldie, but a goodie.

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