I decided the rap accompanying the Nerdish By Nature shirt design is probably worth a reblog of its own. Even cornier jokes about lab research and getting tenure behind the cut.
Life Ain’t Nuttin But Moles And Joules
Hey, yo, DJ, drop a funky Beryllium Astatine solution!
I’m hard like carbon when properly arranged
I’m like Musca domestica just livin’ for today
I come down like temperature in zero Kelvin
And I make nanotech that could be considered Elven
Magic
Cause it’s so far beyond
All the things my colleagues are even now workin’ on
But I ain’t talkin’ until I publish findings hard
So here’s my assistant E to help with his part
Da dada day, dadada day day. Listen to my nine Erlenmeyer’s go bang
Here’s a little somethin’ ‘bout a researcher like me
I don’t often leave the laboratory
They say I should teach? Throw up my cold finger
Then I’ll light me up a Bunsen and bust out the pyknometer
And all you lab assistants, you know how we do
We want to get tenure; I want tenure too!
But you gotta have a mentor to get on the fast track
And a hardcore scientist don’t play that wack
Yeah, I’m the type of physicist that’s built to last
So noble I could even be hydrogen gas
You want to take my grant? Ain’t gonna be gentle
Hey, anybody seen where I put my pencil?
