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Can I lick it? Yes you can.

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Chemistry has discovered more than they probably care to admit by accidentally licking things.

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- Purposefully licking things.
  
  Chemists of old were a bit less safety conscious than we are today. Tasting the chemicals you just made was just part of the job back then.
  
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  Chemists of old were plenty safety conscious. Licking the science is what apprentices were for.
  
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  We still like to sniff stuff. You’ve got some very sensitive chemoreceptors right on your face, might as well use them!
  
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- "Why does my cigarette I left on the lab table taste sweet?" is absolutely the question an inattentive scientists asked himself before he discovered an artificial sweetener.
  
  EDIT: Michael Sveda's discovery of cyclamate at the university of Illinois in 1937
  
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- Mouth pipetting is a large part of this.
  
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- Literally how we got aspartame. It started as an ulcer drug.
  
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Biology: Lick here... Yep, that's the spot. Continue... Oh yeah, keep going. Uhhh....

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- Human anatomy: you’re technically always licking it. And now you’re aware of it. Your tongue on the roof of your mouth. Touching your teeth.
  
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  I always hate how well this works...
  
  Also I hope you enjoy manually breathing now as in retaliation
  
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Geography: You can try, but it's gonna take you a while.

Cartography: "Would you not lick my maps, please?"

History: Fuck You.

Sociology: Allowed and encouraged in some fields, others... better not.

Economics: "Is Human Resources there?"

Medicine: "Next, please." or "Don't, please."

Civil engineering: Go ahead, eat the dirt.

Law: Go to jail.

Political science: Could you please do this somewhere else?

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Electronics: Only the low voltage side.

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- Lick the null and keep on with your life. Lick the phase and suffer. Lick two phases and die.
  
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  You can always lick the ground or earth depending on where you live
  
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Mycology: “go ahead have a seat. Lick this one. It’ll be fun!”

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- Certain tree frogs in the Amazon: while you're at it, lick us too
  
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  I want to make a joke about “that’s how you catch herpes”, but my brain is fried.
  
  So I’ll just leave you with the knowledge that the Colorado River Toad is also psychedelic. and the Park Service really wants people to stop.
  
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Software engineering... If you can lick it, you spelled "click" wrong. And that's why your code won't compile, you complete failure.

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- NameError: name 'lick' is not defined. Did you mean: 'click'?
  
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  NameError: name 'lick' is not defined. Did you mean: 'sudo rm -rf /'?
  
  Ftfy
  
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- “Lick this dish please.”
  
  “So you do lick the science?!”
  
  “No. You are the science.” <checks watch><marks something down on a clipboard>
  
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- My Clinical Microbiology teacher: I'm no longer allowed to teach you how to waft plates, but... if you happen to catch a whiff of ____ growing on a plate, you would smell ____. ::wink, wink::
  
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In zoology, science might lick you, but it might also bite you.

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Physics clubs always pull out the liquid nitrogen ice cream, so licking is an option!

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- As long as it's the ice cream you're licking and not the liquid nitrogen.
  
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Chemistry + licking = cooking

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- Well I'll be..! I wonder if that's how they came up with the word?
  
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And then there is NileRed, who does lick the chemistry He does.

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Chemistry 50 years ago: it is encouraged to smell, taste, and injest all of your work

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- You know it's an old paper when it describes the taste of mercury salts.
  
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  Or the dizzying high resulting from tasting 2,3,4,5-tetramethoxyamphetamine
  
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- And sometimes inject.
  
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A quick question, should the software engineer lick the monitor screen or the keyboard?

I… uh… am asking for a friend who is a software engineer.

I am a butterfly instructor.

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- the motherboard. how else can you tell that it is working?
  
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  Given most software engineers develop in a cloud environment, I would… I mean my friend would have to shove their head into a server rack that is consuming high amounts of wattage. My friend would then have to try reaching for the motherboard by extending their tongue.
  
  The only problem I see here is travelling to the data centre which are often located in different countries or even continents. I am not sure if their employer would cover that expense.
  
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- Most keyboards get really gross after a while and are hardly ever cleaned. I'd go for the monitor.
  
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  This is why they never get cleaned, you gotta start somewhere. Lick the keyboard!
  
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- The butterflies. Someone needs to see if they taste of butter.
  
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  I have eaten fried moth. Tasted much like almond
  
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  They taste more like flies and less like butter.
  
  Source
  
  Don’t ask.
  
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- Licking is for mouses and touch-pads.
  
  Use the onLick() event.
  
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- Isn't there a game where if you put ketchup on the disc it does something to make it easier to speedrun? So licking might be too unreasonable
  
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  Thanks for sharing the insight. Apparently, it was a speed run hack on Xbox for an old SpongeBob game.
  
  So, there’s some precedent set in the field of computer peripheral licking to improve results.
  
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- Lmao dammit emacs
  
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- Hey there I am Dev
  
  I set the universal constants.
  
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You can lick anything at least once.

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- So you’re saying I can lick Uranus?
  
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  If you go there, yes.
  
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  Point yourself at the surface so that when you get there the tongue-part of the pressure diamond you've become is lowest.
  
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  That you wish you could ;)
  
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- How would I go about licking the sun?
  
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  Choose parts of the sun the sun has thrown away so as to not need to find a way of surviving to living range of the surface of the sun
  
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  Just send a meta-lick into the future. After long enough, the Sun will come closer to get licked.
  
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i had to link it, no choice rlly

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- You can quest like a tribe does.
  
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- You beat me to it, but I'll also add this other obligatory link.
  
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Lemme just lick my radioactive isotope sample.

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- We know not to lick it, therefor someone has licked it
  
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  Well, lots of someone's painting watch faces with it.
  
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Medicine: In here? Sure, that's how you get c diff, staph, e coli...

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Comp sci and software engineering is pretty much the same thing

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- I would say replace "Computer Science" with "Computer Engineering" (or electrical engineering) and it works pretty well
  
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  Not really. Software engineering is part of computer science. Computer engineering and electrical engineering have more to do with physical hardware and circuits.
  
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Economics: How much are you willing to pay?

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- If the market clears the price is equal to the marginal utility of getting licked
  
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  This man economics
  
  How does $3.50 sound?
  
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Electronics: "It's useful in testing whether a battery has charge or not."

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Philosophy:

"That depends on your definitions, some may call philosophy a science, others may not, what do you think? Can you lick the philosophy?"

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- There is philosophy in everything. Any time you lick anything, you lick philosophy. Even if you lick nothing, you lick philosophy.
  
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  is my toungue staying inside my mouth licking the inside of the mouth? does that mean it's also licking philosophy?
  
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- Philosophy is science. It's the very foundation of all of our studies. What do you think PhD stands for?
  
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  Philosophy isn't science. Science is philosophy. Philosophy can be science, reason, mysticism, and a bunch of other stuff I can't remember
  
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Biology: Yes. Most definitely. Please do.

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- But those worms & cow eyeballs & sheep lungs we had to dissect in elementary school??
  
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  nutritious and delicious!
  
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- With absolutely no exceptions whatsoever.
  
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I'd also lick your anus

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You on the lab safety committee, Tip?

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I'm the white lantern of our sector, I've actually been to Uranus and licked it.

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Just here to voice my appreciation for the ATCQ title.

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Herpetology: Bed plan bad plan BAD PLAN!!!

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