Sunday, January 13, 2008
Transuranic
How silly we were! Of course, transuranic means having a higher atomic number than uranium. Doh! Well, science was never my strong point. I kept getting distracted by the science teacher's knobbly knees. I enjoyed the range of invented meanings on the blog for transuranic and am happy to announce Thesaurus Rex as the decisive winner on today's poll. Welcome back T Rex.
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Transuranic (adj.) was a common sailing term before navigation became exact science. It refers to a lengthy voyage where sailors had to resort to drinking their own urine in order to survive after stocks of water and rum ran out.
The Transuranic Interval is the time taken to get from warm bed to cold loo in the nighttime when that final cuppa tea/beer catches up with ones bladder. During cold winter months such as Jan or Feb, the T.I. can be reduced by the use of a Transuranic Gait, a type of speedy shuffle where the feet move quickly but never leave the ground.
Transuranic is the name of the airline that flies to the planet Uranus and beyond. Book your ticket now!
Stephen from Scottsdale, Arizona, USA
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Transuranic is a device that is strapped to the nether regions
to lessen the transuranic interval. (see Rex above). This handly little object (or big in some cases - it's made to measure) can then be emptied in the morning.
Lorenzo.
Transuranic: the flight path that spaceships take when circumnavigating Uranus.
Scaredy.
Transuranic [adjective; stress on penultimate syllable]. Literally, through the looking glass. Commonly used to describe a person whose grasp on reality is rather different from one's own.
Transuranic is a waste of research time caused by going off-topic:
Alice's transuranic search began, innocently enough, at the periodic table of the elements, but she lost her focus and wandered through dark church naves oozing treacle, rascally artists armed with sponges, printer's devils brandishing broken type, and fetid litter-boxes.
"How on Earth," she thought, "did I come to 'the talking statues of Rome'? I was looking for the actinides, not impish wordplay!"
Sorry, we're all heading down a similar route here....
The transuranic arc (ta) is the predicted trajectory that a squirted liquid under pressure (p) will take. A calculation which is particularly useful in France where the toilet may be only a small aperture in the floor.
Transuranic meditation is when one is hurriedly working out the transuric arc.
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