Blogs Apr 14, 2014 at 8:00 am

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Not a lot of male college students have a colorist who knows just when to touch up those grey roots. You're a lucky man, Dan.
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I don't know if I'd be flattered or totally skeeved out if someone used my pic like that.
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Insult to injury: It suggests that you're dim enough to hire as a tutor the dufus who's failing you as a teacher.
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Ohh, there's a link to chat! I wonder if it's a chatbot or a person. I'm tempted to tell it/them that they have linked to pics of at least three famous people. It's probably not true, but how long will they work on figuring it out?
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You could threaten to sue, but settle out of court and use the cash for a family Hawaiian vacation.
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No, it's legit. I have a class with that guy. He definitely needs all the help with O-Chem that he can get!
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Wait, there is another (semi) famous person pictured here! Apparently Joe Rospars, co-founder of Blue State Digital and Obama's principal digital strategist for both presidential campaigns needed help with his LSATs.
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They misspelled 'orgasmic'.
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@3 No, I think he hired someone who taught the same course before.

I'm really touched by the third one. Poor Sarah, a struggling, starving Ph.D. student, gets adopted by a nice family!
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Congrats on acing your Chemistry exam Dan!
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@8: You win the thread.
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I always suspected organic chemistry was kinda gay, but now we know for sure.
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Who are the other two? The top picture is familiar, but I can't quite place it, and I don't know who the third person is.
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On the bright side, Dan, whoever did the website thinks you can pass for an undergrad.
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@Hanoumatoi: The other images are either from stock photos or stolen from peoples' profiles on social networking sites. I did a Google image search and found that both women's pictures were used on other scammy sites. I repeated the search on other images and while most of them were stock photos, at least one of them was another famous person who has not been in college for a long time.
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So glad you're going back to finish that degree, Dan. Keep chasing that dream!

OTOH, I hope you're not one of those who majors in Molecular Biology just 'cause it looks good on a med school application. We need more real scientists.
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"I ended up acing the final exam. And then I went on a shooting spree in the quad to celebrate."
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Thanks Dan. I needed a good laugh today. Also, @8 had the perfect response.
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Dan has taught more people the meaning of "cis" and "trans" than any tenured Chemistry professor.
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Terry Miller is on Queerty. Organic Chem is why I am not an M.D. Made my momma cry....
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Ha! They've already removed all the photos on that website!
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M? Obvious - It's the wardrobe.
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So Dan do you want to help me with my organic chem final, seeing as you aced the test?
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@19 - as a Chem major, I have long been irked by this mis-use of IUPAC, though I have to agree if frequency of usage wins, then Dan has set the new definitions.
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@24: I was a ChemEng major and long ago I had to swallow the bitter pill of "organic" meaning not "contains carbon" but "purveyed by some hobbit-like creature in the produce aisle of Whole Foods with their furry little toes projecting from their Birkenstocks".

Hair dresser: "You should buy this name-brand stylist's shampoo. It's organic."

"You mean it contains organic chemicals?"

"No, it comes from plants!"

"So does crude oil."

So I go to a barber. $11, no appointment needed, no one shampoos my hair, I'm never delayed by someone getting a permanent, and there's always a tech or science magazine to read.

But to be clear: Dan invented "monogamish" and popularized "Sanatorum" but has only explained "cis" and "trans". "Cis" arising, I assume, because if transpeople get labels, then everybody gets labels. As your, "your straight, white, cis-male, gender-normative, First-world, able-bodied, right-handed, non-autistic-spectrum-disorder, English-speaking, document-possessing, middle-class privilege!" Cause, what fun are allies if you can't demean them?
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@25

In France it's not "organic" it's "bio" as in "biological". It makes as little sense.

"Oh, I love bio tomatoes, they're so much better than the others !"
"Er... others ? do you mean, mineral tomatoes ? robotic tomatoes ? plastic tomatoes ?"

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