Off the Mark by Mark Parisi for May 20, 2021

What’s next “DI” for Dirt?

Remember Tom Lehrer’s song about the elements? Watch to the end, he references an earlier version of the song…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWLeBIWklYo

Then there’s the Periodic Table of the Elephants, which today has two kinds, Af and As.

I don’t know about then.

And whenever it finally came along, I don’t think Ma was actually an elephant.

ROCKet Scientists.

RO – Rock?

The second one will be “Sa” for sand.

Nickle Cerium.

We have a periodic table in our dining room. We don’t use it very often.

W = water

F = food

Is there a periodic table of punctuation marks?

Is it really a table with just one cell?

It’s not written in stone though. Um.

Isn’t a periodic table what you sit at in Element-ry school?

The next element – St (Stick)

Some elements from the Kosher Periodic Table: Kv: (Kvetchium). Nu: (Nudnikium). Sh: (Schlemielium). Ov: (Oyveyium). Zt: (Zetzium). Ki: (Kishkazine—the halogen). And Sk: (Schmendrikium). And so forth.