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• Ytterbium: A rare and inconsequential element, named after the village of Ytterby
  Sweden (not to be confused with Iturbi, the late pianist and film personality, who was actually Spanish, not Swedish)....
• here's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium and phosphorus and francium and fluorine and terbium and manganese and mercury molybdenum magnesium dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium and lead praseodymium and platinum and plutonium palladium promethium potassium polonium and tantalum technetium titanium tellurium and cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium There's sulfur californium and fermium berkelium and also mendelevium einsteinium nobelium and argon krypton neon radon xenon zinc and rhodium and chlorine carbon cobalt copper tungsten tin and sodium These are the only ones of which the news has come to hahvard and there may be many others but they haven't been discahverd.
  -- "the elements" by Tom Lehrer. [part 2]...
• There's antimony arsenic aluminum selenium and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium and nickel neodymium neptunium germanium and iron americium ruthenium uranium europium zirconium lutetium vanadium and lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium and gold and protactinium and indium and gallium and iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium There's yttrium ytterbium actinium rubidium and boron gadolinium niobium iridium and strontium and silicon and silver samarium and bismuth bromine lithium beryllium and barium Isn't that interesting?
  I knew you would. I hope you're all taking notes because there's gonna be a short quiz next period....
• There is a lot of writing on the walls. It looks like a long list.
  It It says: "At first Akiba begat Ploph, then Ploph begat Carle...
• Large elements in order brought, And tracts of calm from tempest made, And world-wide fluctuation sway'd, In vassal tides that follow'd thought.
  -- Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892) -- In Memoriam, cxii, Stanza 4...
• Creativity is the recombination of the elements of life.
• And ITT begat Hostess, and Hostess begat Morton, and Morton begat Stuckey's and Stuckey's begat Beatrice, and Beatrice begat Little Debbie.
  And Beatrice did leave Little Debbie with Hostess and go forth into the wastelands looking for a good spot at a truck stop....
• Sorry, we can't ship caffeine products to Sweden or Belgium.
• Two depraved elements in the universe: Feminizm & Lawyers.