RECENTLY we noted the wit and wisdom that occasionally makes a fleeting appearance on laboratory whiteboards, only to be scrubbed off again by diligent cleaners (10 January). We appealed to readers to supply examples so that we could save them for posterity. Here are some of the results.
Meredith Harron’s favourite was in the office of a mathematician in an engineering research organisation. It said: “2 does not equal 3, even for very large values of 2”.
Sean Murray-Smith reports this from the whiteboard in a medical-centre staff tea room: “Would whoever owns the penicillin experiment in the fridge…
