The Big Bang Theory S01E04
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 invisibility | Why, did you hit a roadblock with invisibility? |
| burner | Put it on the back burner. |
| occur | It occurs to me if I ever did perfect a time machine. |
| eliminating | Thus eliminating the need for me to invent it in the first place. |
| pressure off | It really takes the pressure off. |
| cornered; spelunking; | The last department party, professor Finkleday cornered me and talked about spelunking for 45 minutes. |
| anecdotes | How fortunate for you that the university's chosen to hire you, despite the fact that you've done no original research in 25 years, and insted have written a series of popular books that reduce the great concepts of science to a series of anecdotes. |
| accommodate; duration | Each one dumbed down to accommodate the duration of an average bowl movement. |
| touch | Mahalo is a nice touch. |
| consonant | You know there only eight consonants in the hawaiian language? |
| bagel; shmear | You can't find a bagel in mumbai to save your life. Shmear me. |
| plausible | A more plausible explanation is that his work in robotics has made an amazing leap forward. |
| glorified ; fart | An actual real scientist. Well, you did call hime a glorified high school science teacher who last successful experiment was lighting his own farts. |
| defense; preface | In my defense, I prefaced that by saying, "with all due respect." |
| hypothsis; separation | I finally have time to test my hypothesis about the separation of water molecules from the egg proteins and its impact vis-a-vis taste. |
| grease; equation | I've spent the past three and a half years staring at grease boards full of equations. |
| savor | This is my frist day off in decades and I'm going to savor it. |
| circumstances; coincidence | This would be one of those circumstances that people unfamilliar with the law of large numbers would call a coincidence. |
| evenly; distributed; | And evenly distributed amongst brown, white, free-range, large, extra large and jumbo |
| sabbatical; mediocre | I'm taking a sabbatical because I won't kowtow to mediocre minds. |
| teoretical; canned | Theoretical physicists do not get canned but yeah. |
| relay; motion; sensors; | Not unless the two doors are connected by relays, or there are motion sensors involved. |
| act upon | Or if the frist door closing creates a change of air pressure that acts upon the second door. |
| somehow | Is your body mass somehow tied into your self-worth? |
| caliper; aligned | Let's assume that your brakes are new and the calipers are aligned. |
| occupy | We'll be occupying the same space as that buick in front of us. |
| mutilation | An impossibility that nature will quickly resolve into death, mutilation. |
| ordinary | I'm in the real world of ordinary people just living their ordinary, colorless workaday lives. |
| dynamics; refrigerated | But anyone who knows anything about the dynamics of bacterial growth knows to pick up their refrigerated foods on the way out of the supermarket. |
| multivitamin | There's some value to taking a multivitamin but the human body can only absorb so much. |
| ingredient; urine | What you buying here are the ingredients for very expensive urine. |
| statistically | And we're talking about statistically significant savings. |
| tampon; regular | If you assume 15 tampons per cycle. Are you fairly regular? |
| ... | I marked the calendar for future reference. |
| scrambled | What happened to your scrambled egg research? |
| inserted | who inserted DNA from luminous jellyfish into other animals. |
| hygiene | I also have an idea for a bulk mail-order feminine hygiene company |
| obsession | Every day he's got a new obsession. |
| disturbing | This is a particularly disturbing one. |
| weave ; serapes | Because one of the great minds of the 21st century is raising glow-in-the-dark fish and weaving serapes. |
| poncho | A serape is open at the sides; a poncho is closed. |
| buckle up; crabby | Well, then buckle up--in the next four to eight days she's going to get very crabby. |
| stubborn; rapture | He's stubborn. He may stand in there till the rapture. |
| smoldering | Excuse me for being so bold, but I now see where sheldon gets his smoldering good looks. |
| licorice | He once tried to fight a bobcat for some licorice. |
| fissionable | He had no what you call "fissionable" materials |
| sonic | Locked himself in his room and built a sonic death ray. |
| pluck; nerve | Did I pluck a nerve there? |
| bounty; rocker | Oh, lord, we thank you for this meal and all of your bounty and we pray that you help sheldon get back on his rocker. |
| meditation; obligation | Now, after a moment of silent meditation, I'm gonna end with "in Jesus' name" but you two don't feel any obligation to join in. |
| silicon | It's my idea of what DNA would look like in a silicon-based life-form. |
| intelligently; | But intelligently designed by a creator, right? |
| dynamite | You can only fish for so long by before you got to throw a stick of dynamite in the water? |
| elude | It involves a part of the human experience that has always eluded me. |
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