Funk Babblings

That reminds me of the story that appeared on the humor page of one of my chemistry magazines. No idea if it was true.

Guy goes to the post office to ship an *empty* dewar. "What's a dewar?" "You use it to hold liquid nitrogen." "You can't ship pressurized gases! It'll explode!" "It can't explode. Look, there's not even a lid." "What if it leaks?" (poor scientist sighs) "How clever of you to think of that. Fortunately, it's full of packing peanuts. Everyone knows peanuts are legumes, and legumes fix nitrogen, so it can't leak." "Oh, why didn't you say so?"