Hacker News Reader

I appreciate the attempt at humor. Try to make a less polarizing joke next time.

This will always be funny.

Keep living the dream.

There are countless people out there who know nothing of chemistry and this is a great way to make a point, or make them laugh dependent on the framing.

http://dhmo.org/ has always been my go to URL.

Funny joke if you're 12. Which I guess is why everyone heard it from their middle-school chemistry teacher.

When I was a snot-nosed kid I tried that joke on a chemist family friend. He helpfully informed me that hydrogen hydroxide is a more clever way to say it that’s less wrong, but still fails to really capture the polar nature of H2O.

I found it amusing well into college.