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A study in over-excitement. @magicdarts.bsky.social · 5h

Five! Sorry, you’re out of luck until I accidentally piss up the leg of the lad who invented graphene or something.

A study in over-excitement. @magicdarts.bsky.social · 5h

From these stories you might think “hark at this prick. Cambridge student stories”, but I didn’t. I got a job down there, so fuck you.

A study in over-excitement. @magicdarts.bsky.social · 5h

4! (Bonus) Stephen Hawking nearly ran me over in his bogey outside St John’s college in Cambridge. He obviously couldn’t tell me to fuck off out the way, but it was in his eyes.

A study in over-excitement. @magicdarts.bsky.social · 6h

(We’ll get to none. This is why I don’t join in)

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A study in over-excitement. @magicdarts.bsky.social · 6h

There was a drinks reception beforehand, and feeling safe in the hubbub of conversation I launched into a David Stott impression just as Sir Fred walked in and the room went quiet. For some reason he didn’t find “MISTAH STING! ARE PEANUTS SOLUBLE?” as funny as I did.

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A study in over-excitement. @magicdarts.bsky.social · 6h

3! I was at the Sanger Centre for a talk on sequencing the human genome given by the guvnor Fred Sanger (1958 AND 1980, the clever sausage, both Chemistry; once for working out the amino acid sequence of Insulin, and once for inventing DNA sequencing and changing medicine forever).

A study in over-excitement. @magicdarts.bsky.social · 6h

Or, if you want: one like, one story of a Nobel laureate tutting at me for being a dickhead. (Maximum three likes, with maybe a bonus story of a Lucasian Professor of Mathematics telling me to fuck off if we get to four)

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A study in over-excitement. @magicdarts.bsky.social · 6h

…coming the other way. My stuff went everywhere, he didn’t spill his brew. He grunted at my apology, and I distinctly heard the phrase “clumsy twat” from the great man as I picked up my boxes of bits and he wandered off.

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A study in over-excitement. @magicdarts.bsky.social · 6h

2. I was very lucky to get a day’s visit to use an early microwave reactor at Cambridge uni’s chemistry department. Walking out, my arms laden with kit that I really should have put in a trolley, I backed through a double door and hit Sir Harry Kroto (1996, Chemistry, the discovery of carbon-60)

A study in over-excitement. @magicdarts.bsky.social · 6h

Or, if you want: one like, one story of a Nobel laureate tutting at me for being a dickhead. (Maximum three likes, with maybe a bonus story of a Lucasian Professor of Mathematics telling me to fuck off if we get to four)

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A study in over-excitement. @magicdarts.bsky.social · 6h

1. At the gala opening of our lab building I was queueing for the buffet in front of James Watson (1962, Physiology, for copying Rosamund Franklin’s lab book). His tut as I knocked over a plate of volauvents and elbowed a bottle of red over while trying to rescue them haunts me to this day.

A study in over-excitement. @magicdarts.bsky.social · 6h

Or, if you want: one like, one story of a Nobel laureate tutting at me for being a dickhead. (Maximum three likes, with maybe a bonus story of a Lucasian Professor of Mathematics telling me to fuck off if we get to four)

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A study in over-excitement. @magicdarts.bsky.social · 6h

(We’ll get to none. This is why I don’t join in)

A study in over-excitement. @magicdarts.bsky.social · 6h

Or, if you want: one like, one story of a Nobel laureate tutting at me for being a dickhead. (Maximum three likes, with maybe a bonus story of a Lucasian Professor of Mathematics telling me to fuck off if we get to four)

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A study in over-excitement. @magicdarts.bsky.social · 6h

I can’t beat any of this.

A study in over-excitement. @magicdarts.bsky.social · 6h

I’ve been tutted at for being a dickhead by three Nobel laureates with four prizes between them. How many eminent scientists have treated you with disdain?

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A study in over-excitement. @magicdarts.bsky.social · 6h

You see all these “which famous people have you seen/been in a lift with/queued at the BBC canteen with” going round, all of which are self-selecting to your typical That London Media Fancy Types.

So here’s mine:

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A study in over-excitement. @magicdarts.bsky.social · 8h

I don’t hobnob with Royalty.

I’ve been on an escalator behind the late Pavel Srnicek

I’ve had a piss next to Paul Frost off of Tyne Tees evening news (not Jonathan’s brother) at the fish quay festival.

I’ve been tutted at for being a dickhead by three Nobel laureates. Not in a lift.

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A study in over-excitement. @magicdarts.bsky.social · 11h

Go to the pub.

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A study in over-excitement. @magicdarts.bsky.social · 1d

Self-employed?

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A study in over-excitement. @magicdarts.bsky.social · 1d

I did click and read the alt text I did! I didn’t however expand the alt text on my phone and it didn’t show the joke

Also I’d forgotten that the puppy was even in the scene.

Also also I’m full of regret for “yes that’s the joke”ing myself I shall never join in again.

A very good text description of a picture, with and this is important, no additional jokes

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A study in over-excitement. @magicdarts.bsky.social · 1d

Same phone number as Victor Meldrew

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A study in over-excitement. @magicdarts.bsky.social · 3d

Liège? Standard.

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A study in over-excitement. @magicdarts.bsky.social · 3d

Boiler has packed up. Low pressure error, but it turns out the water Inlet valve has failed so I can’t top the pressure up. Baxi can’t come until Tuesday, but then TRIED TO UPSELL ME WASHING MACHINE COVER

Reposted by A study in over-excitement.

Stuart Webb @inflatabledalek.bsky.social · 4d

H from Steps right now.

a cartoon grasshopper wearing a top hat says hello mi bebe hello mi honey .

ALT: a cartoon grasshopper wearing a top hat says hello mi bebe hello mi honey .

media.tenor.com

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A study in over-excitement. @magicdarts.bsky.social · 4d

Now he’s deid can I feel less bad about the riff from Shinobivsdragonninja occasionally going through my head until I smack it off a door to shut it up.

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A study in over-excitement. @magicdarts.bsky.social · 4d

H from Steps breathes easily for the first time in years. Unlike his namesake.

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A study in over-excitement. @magicdarts.bsky.social · 4d

You see I mocked. But I forgot about the fitting service. It’s the perfect synergy

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A study in over-excitement. @magicdarts.bsky.social · 4d

“Business idea, Lynn. A Halfords with a deli”

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