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Chemical jokes - 28 of them

Never let it be said that chemicals folk don't have a sense of humour. An industry friend has sent the Blog a few samples from this website devoted to hilarious side-splitting chemistry jokes. After some years in the aromatics business, the Blog's...

Published 19 Jun 2009 15:46 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: chemicals, trivia, chemistry, jokes, humour, chemists
Museum of Broken Relationships

A museum dedicated to broken hearts has been founded in Croatia. "The Museum of Broken Relationships is an art concept which proceeds from the assumption that objects possess integrated fields - 'holograms' of memories and emotions - and...

Published 18 Jun 2009 9:11 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: trivia, art, molecules, chemists, museums
Gold bars with your German chemicals

The next time I pass through Frankfurt airport on the way to the German chemical heartland , I will be sure to stop off at the new Gold To Go vending machine which was unveiled yesterday. A German company has launched a new type of automat which dispenses...

Published 17 Jun 2009 19:54 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: trivia, business travel
Koala bears at ICIS

Nel tells me that her daughter had to write a piece for school last week on endangered species, and went to find a nice picture of a koala bear on Google Images . She was astonished to find that the Number One picture of koala bears was from ICIS.com...

Published 12 Jun 2009 18:09 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: trivia, school, children, koala bears, family, Google Images
Michelle Obama chooses London chemicals pub

Michelle Obama and her daughters were photographed arriving at London's Audley pub on Monday, choosing the pub already made famous as the traditional meeting place for Europe's chemical elite after the annual Floggers Luncheon. The Blog was delighted...

Published 12 Jun 2009 13:47 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: Food, trivia, London, restaurants, Floggers, Barack Obama, celebs in chemicals, Audley, Mayfair, pubs, Michelle Obama
Borat mankini arrest warning

England football fans in Almaty for the Kazakhstan match (England 4, Kazakhstan 0) on Saturday 6 June were warned not to wear the Borat swimsuit, or "mankini", unless they wanted to be arrested. Pictures of fans in the green thong reminded the...

Published 8 Jun 2009 13:07 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: trivia, corporate life, football, soccer, Borat swimsuit, mankini, Almaty, Borat, Kazakhstan
Chemical engineers develop training programme for cats

Chemical engineers in the US have developed a training programme for cats, as shown in this video clip which my friend Dan Blank at RB Interactive in the States has been kind enough to forward. Using the procedures and techniques of the engineer, as well...

Published 5 Jun 2009 18:05 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: trivia, engineers, training, chemical engineers, pets, cats, animals
Molecules with Silly Names

Some of the chemical names here are SO cheeky that it is hard to believe they are genuine. Molecules like Arsole, Bastardane, Unununium, Moronic Acid, Dickite, Fucitol and Windowpane . Can they be for real? H aving checked them with my colleague Alex...

Published 2 Jun 2009 13:06 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: chemicals, trivia, University of Bristol School of Chemistry, molecules
Paul's Credit Crunch Jokes

My fellow blogger, Paul Hodges, on his Chemicals and the Economy blog , has posted some more credit crunch jokes . (photo Rex) Read More...

Published 24 May 2009 18:57 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: blogs, trivia, credit crunch, jokes, humour, Chemicals and the Economy
Baby's plastic bottle that heats itself

Here's another crafty way for babies to get themselves out and about with their parents. Ideal for car journeys and trips to restaurants, the Iiamo Go self-heating baby bottle has disposable heating cartridges and claims to heat milk to 37 degrees...

Published 22 May 2009 10:04 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: plastics, trivia, baby bottles, babies
Recycled plastic balls

Nice picture in the TimesOnline Photo Gallery today, under Pictures of the Day: "A vendor pulls a handcart carrying balls made from recycled plastic along a street in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad." (photo Amit Dave/Reuters, TimesOnline...

Published 21 May 2009 13:13 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: India, plastics, trivia, recycling, photos, Times
Print your business card on meat

Why mess around with old-fashioned paper business cards when you can be chewing on Meat Cards ? Have your contact information seared onto beef jerky by laser beam . It's environmentally friendly and protein rich. (Photo Meat Cards) For more about...

Published 20 May 2009 18:03 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: Food, trivia, corporate life, beef, meat, business cards, meat cards, beef jerky
Plastics guys are human too

Tucked away at the bottom of the new weekly online newsletter from the US plastics industry trade association, SPI's Inside Edge , I see that they have some links to their own " In the Hopper " blog which has some cutesy chemicals human...

Published 18 May 2009 17:30 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: blogs, plastics, chemicals, trivia, SPI, children, fruit
Scottish sporrans go plastic

In what may prove to be a turning point for the beleagured Scottish plastics industry, EU MEPs in Strasbourg have voted to outlaw the traditional sealskin sporran, leaving a gaping commercial hole for manufacturers of synthetic sporrans to fill. MEPs...

Published 7 May 2009 18:03 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: plastics, trivia, fashion, Daily Telegraph, Scotland, clothes, sporrans, kilts
Floggers: high spirits despite downturn and health scare

It may turn out that the timing of Floggers was fortunate, because although everyone was joking about swine flu, they were still hugging and (social) kissing with abandon, and no-one had yet started to think about avoiding mass gatherings . Particularly...

Published 1 May 2009 15:07 by ICIS Chemicals Confidential

Filed under: trivia, business travel, gossip, CBA, Floggers, Ann Widdecombe, Gurkhas, Grovenor House

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