The Big Bang Theory S01E02
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 swell up; epinephrine; puffy | Everyone keep an eye on Howard in case he starts to swell up. Since it's not bee season, you can have my epinephrine. Do I look puffy? I feel puffy. |
| carbohydrate | So you kind of act like a carbohydrate delivery system. |
| pathology | Don't take it personally, it's his pathology. |
| scented | A cheesecake-scented goddess. |
| swoosh | And superman swooshes down and catches her. |
| rife; inaccuracy | You realize that scene was rife with scientific inaccuracy. |
| accelerate; initial; decelerate | Accelerating at an initial rate of 32 feet per second per second. Superman swoops down to save her by reaching out two arms of steel. Miss lane, who is now traveling at approximately miles an hour hits them and is immediately sliced into three equal pieces. Unless superman matches her speed and decelerates. |
| frankly; pavement; merciful | Frankly, if he really loved her, he'd let her hit the pavement. It's be a more merciful death. |
| entire; predicated; assumption; feat | Your entire argument is predicated on the assumption that superman's fight is a feat of strength. |
| extension | It is an extension of his ability to leap tall buildings. |
| derive; exposure | An ability he derivers from exposure to earth's yellow sun. |
| combination; reflection | A combination of the moon's solar reflection and the energy storage capacity of kryptonian skin cells. |
| measurable | We don't have a dolly,or lifting belts or any measurable upper-body strength. |
| intellectual; descendant; fulcrum | We are the intellectual descendants of Archimedes. Give me a fulcrum and a lever and I can move the earth. |
| incline; require; exactly | Now we've got an inclined plane, the force required to lift is reduced by the sine of the stairs, call it 30 degrees, so, about half. Exactly half. |
| formula; corner | What's your formula for the corner? |
| gravity; thou; | Ah, gravity, thou art heartless bitch |
| congress | You do understand that our efforts here will in no way increase the odds of you having sexual congress with this woman. |
| caesar; ghost | Great caesar's ghost, look at this place. |
| Mandelbrot set | The mandelbrot set of complex numbers is a little messy. This is chaos. |
| organizational; tary; valid | Explain to me an organizational system where a tray of flatware on a couch is valid. |
| infer garage | I'm just inferring this is a couch. Because the evidence suggests the coffee table is having a ting garage sale. |
| occur;compulsive; organize; sort; straightening | Did it ever occur to you that not everyone has the compulsive need to sort, organize and label the entire world around them? I'm straightening up. |
| numerically; content | Most people don't sort their breakfast cereal numerically by fiber content. |
| swirl ; vortex; entropy | This is a swirling vortex of entropy. |
| immaculate | Because it was immaculate. |
| adjacent | And immediately adjacent to the hallway was this. |
| jury peer | Its reaonableness will be determined by a jury of your peer. |
| lower register | You might want to speak in a lower register. |
| evolution; sensitive; rouse | Evolution has made women sensitive to high-pitches noises while they sleep so that they'll be roused by a crying baby. |
| premise | I accept your premise. |
| lean | If you have time to lean, you have time to clean. |
| splendidly; granted | I have to say I slept splendidly. Granted, not long, but just deeply and well. |
| folk; insomnia | A well-know folk cure for insomnia is to breal in your neighor's apartment and clean. |
| sarcasm, unorthodox; enhancement; quality | Sarcasm? Granted, my methods may have been somewhat unorthodox, but I think the end result will be a measurable enhancement to penny's quality of life- you've convinced me. |
| carpet | MAybe tonight we should sneak in and shampoo her carpet. |
| cross | You don't think that crosses a line? |
| schematic | I may have left a suggested organizational schematic for her bedroom closet. |
| length | We discussed it at length last night. |
| snoring; sinus; apnea; otolaryngologist; | And snoring, and that's probably just a sinus infection, but it could be sleep apnea. You might want to see an otolaryngologist. A throat doctor. |
| proctologist; surgeon | That's either a proctologist or a general surgeon. |
| violated | When you're feeling a little less for lack of a better word-violated. |
| objection; solely; imposition; paradigm | Is your objection solely to our presence in the apartment while you were sleeping, or do you also object to the imposition of a new organizational paradigm? |
| march over | You are going to march yourself over there right now and apologize. |
| all over | Boy, you are all over the place this morning. |
| atomic ; participation; hallmark; potential; | Just as Oppenheimer came to regret his contributions to the first atomic bomb, so too I regret my participation in what was, at very least, an error in judgment. The hallmark of the great human experiment is the willingness to recognize one's mistakes. Some mistakes, such as Madam Curie's discovery of radium, turned out to have great scientific potential, even though she would later die a slow, painful death from radiation poisoning. Another example, from the field of Ebola research... |
| pictographic; representation | These instructions are pictographic representation |
| infrared repeater; emitter | Run an infrared repeater. Photo cell here, emitter here, easy-peasy. |
| coolant; aquarium | How about liquid coolant? maybe a little aquarium pump here. Run some quarter-inch PVC |
| corrugated ; radiator; drip tray; sluice; overflow reservoir | Maybe a little corrugated sheet metal as a radiator here.Yeah? show me where we put a drip tray, a sluice and an overflow reservoir. |
| ground | If water's involved, we're gonna have to ground the crap out of the thing. |
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