A pant-hoot of appreciation goes out to United Kingdom bonobo, grimupnorth, for passing this along.
Adam Kay is a junior doctor from the UK who passes his limited spare time by writing songs, including one about a new wonder-drug called Paracetamoxyfrusebendroneomycin.
He's built up a cult following, and he's currently selling out at the Edinburgh festival.There are some clips from the songs on this site:
The Friday Project ("Paracetamoxyfrusebendroneomycin" contained therein - Doc Bushwell)
He gives all proceeds from his album sales to a cancer charity.
See what you think.
Adam Kay has a future in direct-to-consumer pharma advertising. Thanks, grim. I owe you a grooming session.
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A Chemical Limerick:
A mosquito cried out in pain:
"A chemist has poisoned my brain!"
The cause of his sorrow
was para-dichloro
diphenyltrichloroethane
-- Dr. D. D. Perrin
Anybody know if this stuff kills those little yellow guy-thingies living underneath toenails?
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Kirchoff's Voltage Law
What could be more important?
I'm thinking Ohm's Law
As you can guess, I'm fond of extremely narrow focus jokes and the like.
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