Sunday, July 27, 2008

Does This Sound Like Your District Administration?

I found this on my hard drive this morning. It's always good for a chuckle--the best humor often has plenty of truth to it.

PRESS RELEASE: DISCOVERY OF A NEW ELEMENT

The heaviest element known to science was recently discovered by investigators at a major US research university. The element, tentatively named administratium, has no protons or electrons and thus has an atomic number of 0. However, it does have one neutron, 125 assistant neutrons, 75 vice neutrons and 111 assistant vice neutrons, which gives it an atomic mass of 312.

These 312 particles are held together by a force that involves the continuous exchange of meson-like particles called morons. It is also surrounded by vast quantities of lepton-like particles called peons.

Since it has no electrons, administratium is inert. However, it can be detected chemically as it impedes every reaction it comes in contact with. According to the discoverers, a minute amount of administratium causes one reaction to take over four days to complete what would normally have occurred in less than a second.

Administratium has a normal half-life of approximately three years at which time it does not decay, but instead undergoes a reorganization in which a portion of the assistant neutrons, vice neutrons and assistant vice neutrons exchange places. In fact, an administratium sample's mass actually INCREASES over time, since with each reorganization some of the morons inevitably become neutrons, forming new isotopes. This characteristic of moron promotion leads some scientists to speculate that perhaps administratium is spontaneously formed whenever morons reach a certain quantity in concentration. This hypothetical quantity is referred to as "critical morass".

5 comments:

  1. Gee, certainly sounds like my school district, especially the part about the three years.

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  2. Anonymous8:27 PM

    hhahaha....being the major science nerd that i am, i can actually understand alot of that

    and i'll agree cause this article is right on the bat....administration is quite a big screw up. in fact, i'm currently writing a paper about how far administration can interfere with a student when they become aware of something off campus grounds or on myspace/facebook.....i'm wondering how it'll turn out

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  3. Scott, you will find much information here on that topic. Put Myspace or Online or Facebook into the search box at the top of the blog and see what you come up with.

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  4. Anonymous9:39 AM

    trust me...i've already included you in my sources and annotated bibliography

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  5. I am stealing this.

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