If you ever studied science in school, you were introduced to the famous and endlessly useful Periodic Table of the Elements, which arranges the known elements by their atomic numbers, and groups them according to their general properties. The first generally-accepted Periodic Table was developed by Russian scientist Dmitri Mendeleev in 1869, and the current version looks like this:
Now, while the Periodic Table has many uses for scientists, it also lends itself to modification for humorous purposes. For instance, back in August of 2008, I featured a version I'd found called "Dapperstache's Periodic Table of Awesoments," which you can revisit
here, and Miss Cellania wrote an article for Mental Floss in 2013 that featured
nine Periodic Table parodies, with links to many others.
But one of the best versions I've seen in a long time is this one, which popped up recently as a Facebook post from one of my friends - it's Ye Olde Periodic Table:
Yes, it was much easier to be a chemist back then, when there were only four elements to worry about, and no bothersome oversight by the jack-booted government thugs
TM of the FDA and the EPA digging through all your test results and worrying about job-killing
TM things like safety and the environment ...
Have a good day. It's element-ary, after all.
More thoughts tomorrow.
Bilbo
So there's a Canadian Periodic Table too? It beats the old, 4-element one, and it's a lot easier to remember than Mendeleev's one. This was an enjoyable post today, Bilbo!
ReplyDeletePeriodic Tables are awesome! A great piece.
ReplyDeleteGreat post, but not being into science I had never heard of a Periodic Table. I'm so much more well-informed today. Is that you in the picture?
ReplyDeleteA movie identified an ancient fifth element.
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