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protein wisdom’s 40 favorite periodic table elements / yiddish words over the past 3 months*

  1. Nitrogen
  2. Neon
  3. Oxygen
  4. Silicon
  5. kakameyme
  6. Lithium
  7. Helium
  8. Boron
  9. gelt
  10. (T) Cobalt / sheygets
  11. Chromium
  12. meshugine
  13. Phosphorus
  14. farblondzhet
  15. mishpokhe
  16. shpilkes
  17. Titanium
  18. Germanium
  19. nosh
  20. Germanium
  21. pupik
  22. Manganese
  23. tokhes
  24. shmuz
  25. Yttrium
  26. Rhodium
  27. Krypton
  28. Molybdenum
  29. Barium
  30. megile
  31. shtik
  32. Dysprosium
  33. Promethium
  34. Iodine
  35. Tantalum
  36. kvel
  37. nudnik
  38. Radon
  39. Argon
  40. shlemazl

*inspired by this post.

21 Replies to “protein wisdom’s 40 favorite periodic table elements / yiddish words over the past 3 months*”

  1. MC says:

    A tie between Cobalt and sheygets? Inconceivable!

  2. Jeff Goldstein says:

    Well, it’s very subjective.

  3. Murel Bailey says:

    Balebusta and unnilpentium didn’t make the cut? I’m tearing my clothes here.

  4. kyle says:

    I’d have to cast a vote for nebbish, chutzpah, yiches and maybe shtup.  Oh – and Naquada, definitely my favorite element.  Naquada.

  5. Jim in Chicago says:

    Schwanz?

  6. George G. says:

    Krypton and Molybdenum below Boron???  Sheesh!

    At least they beat out Iodine, bourgois nobody that it is.

  7. Robin Roberts says:

    Bromine should be tops, as one of only two elements liquid at room temperature.  But do you list it at all?

    Nope.  Racist.

  8. Beck says:

    Where the fuck is sodium?  One of the two elements in table salt, and burns explosively on contact with water.  Hello!?

    Sodium has always been my favorite element by far, and while I can see strong arguments for lithium & one or two other elements, I have to dismiss as absolutely illegitimate any top-40 elements/yiddish words list without sodium.  I spit on the floor dismissively at the very thought.

    Good call on Silicon though.

  9. Jeff Goldstein says:

    Sodium makes me retain water.  And who likes to look puffy?

  10. kyle says:

    And who likes to look puffy?

    Michael Moore?  Ted Kennedy?  Anna Nicole circa 1998?

  11. MC says:

    Maybe PW just slipped one slot on his list you know?

    I would like to also see a list of sites / expletives from you. That would be most entertaining. Or sites/yiddish – Like:

    Rightwingnews – putz

  12. MC says:

    And my spam buster was “tie”!

  13. Chris says:

    You said Germanium twice.

    I like Germanium.

  14. Diana says:

    #9. Gelt

    .. is that like:

    “we gelt him!”; “he was gelted”; “he didn’t take the gelting very well”; “he was really pissed off when he got gelted” …… ?

  15. Blackjack says:

    I can’t believe you stiffed Beryllium.  What did it ever do to you?

    –Blackjack

    “Swift Boat Chemists for Truth”

  16. CraigC says:

    Jeff, I know you know the difference between a schlemiel and a schlemazl, right?

  17. Tim Worstall says:

    Jeez Jeff, expensive tastes. There’s only 40 grammes of Promethium on the planet at any one time. Good to see germanium twice, makes those lovely night sights for the Marine snipers. Yttrium’s important too, makes the phosphors on your computer screen (except for those posh bastards with LCDs)and dysprosium makes the little magnets that make your IPod headphones work.

    Can’t understand why you left scandium out though…oh, wait, yes I can. You know I work with it don’t you, eh? Xenophobe!

  18. Gamer says:

    Is tokhes the same thing as tukhus? I mean, it isn’t nipples, but I want to make sure it was covered.

  19. Tanya says:

    I had no idea “kakameyme” was yiddish.

  20. Deus ex Macrame says:

    You left-off bismuth? What the *&@#? That is so deeply wrong.

  21. Sean John says:

    What’s wrong with “Puffy?”

    Racist.

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