Definition: "Part of the PERCIPITATE"; (Example) Preamble To Precipitate The Destruction Of Religious Artifacts. It ain't all bad. Just perceived that way.
Would you rather to be an off-gas, (fart), than a precipitate? (turd) Figure of speech.
Heisenberg is out for a drive when he's stopped by a traffic cop. The cop says 'Do you know how fast you were going?' Heisenberg says 'No, but I know where I am.'
A good film about a math wizard who goes nuts and his daughter who fears she is or will also.
It has a scene where a band of math geeks have a song called "i" (small case "I" is an imaginary number in high math circles). The band stands still and plays nothing. The people in the audience, a house party, chuckle at the drollery. This exchange between the Gwyneth Paltrow character and the Jake Gyllenhall character sets up the joke for the moviegoers:
Hal: Well, I'm gonna be late. Some friends of mine are in this band. They're playing in a bar on Diversey, way down the bill, they go on about 2 to 2:30. I said I'd be there. Catherine: Great. Hal: They're all in the math deparment, they're really good. They have this song called 'i', you'd like it. Like lower-cased i. They just stand there and don't play anything for three minutes. Catherine: Imaginary number. Hal: It's a math joke... You see why they're way down on the bill. Catherine: That's a long way to drive to see some nerds in a band. Hal: You know, I hate when people say that. It's not really that long of a drive. Catherine: So, they are nerds. Hal: Oh, they're raging geeks. But they're geeks who, you know, can dress themselves and hold down a job at a major university. Some of them have switched from glasses to contacts. They, uh, play sports, they play in a band, they get laid suprisingly often... So, it makes you kinda question the whole set of terms. Geek, nerd, wonk, dilbert, paste eater... Catherine: You're in this band, aren't you. Hal: Ok, yes. I play the drums. You wanna come? I never sing, I swear to God.
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