Today's nerd funny

[moonwise]

My manager: "Have you ever worked with bilirubin?"

Me: *blankly* "Who?"



(note: "bilirubin" is pronounced like "Billy Rubin.")

Comments

[jaina.livejournal.com]

*rimshot*

[arafel.livejournal.com]

lol. What's not coming across is that I didn't immediately realize that my manager was not asking me whether I worked with the theoretical person Billy Rubin.

[arafel.livejournal.com]

Doesn't it mean bile-red or something like that? The roots are there. But yes, it's a silly word.

[little-licks.livejournal.com]

Isn't bilirubin the pigment that gives feces its lovely rich earthy color? :)

[arafel.livejournal.com]

The wiki says (and the wiki is always true!)

In the liver it is conjugated to glucuronic acid, making it soluble in water. Much of it goes into the bile and thus out into the small intestine. Some of the conjugated bilirubin remains in the large intestine and is metabolised by colonic bacteria to urobilinogen, which is further metabolized to stercobilinogen, and finally oxidised to stercobilin. This stercobilin gives feces its brown color. Some of the urobilinogen is reabsorbed and excreted in the urine along with an oxidized form, urobilin.

[fireceremony.livejournal.com]

:D nice one! :D