{
 "note": "Each passage is copied exactly from the source named, as kept in this site's repository on the date it was fetched (2026-11-06). The page quotes inside these passages; /checks/verify-the-joke-desk.mjs checks that it does.",
 "quotes": {
  "na2he-inert": {
   "source": "https://www.nature.com/articles/nchem.2716",
   "kept": "na2he.txt",
   "excerpt": "Helium is generally understood to be chemically inert and this is due to its extremely stable closed-shell electronic configuration, zero electron affinity and an unsurpassed ionization potential."
  },
  "fowler": {
   "source": "https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html",
   "kept": "fowler.txt",
   "excerpt": "Long a favorite saying of mine, one for which I couldn't find a satisfactory URL."
  },
  "goldfish": {
   "source": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34896210/",
   "kept": "goldfish.txt",
   "excerpt": "For this purpose, we trained goldfish to use a Fish Operated Vehicle (FOV), a wheeled terrestrial platform that reacts to the fish's movement characteristics, location and orientation in its water tank to change the vehicle's; i.e., the water tank's, position in the arena."
  },
  "alphag-abs": {
   "source": "https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06527-1",
   "kept": "alphag.txt",
   "excerpt": "The theoretical consensus is that any laboratory mass must be attracted^[6] by the Earth, although some authors have considered the cosmological consequences if antimatter should be repelled by matter^[7,8,9,10]. In the general theory of relativity, the weak equivalence principle (WEP) requires that all masses react identically to gravity, independent of their internal structure. Here we show that antihydrogen atoms, released from magnetic confinement in the ALPHA-g apparatus, behave in a way consistent with gravitational attraction to the Earth. Repulsive ‘antigravity’ is ruled out in this case."
  },
  "barke-uk": {
   "source": "https://www.statistik-bw.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Service/Veroeff/Statistisches_Monatsheft/PDF/Beitrag04_11_11.pdf",
   "kept": "barke-2004.txt",
   "excerpt": "You will appreciate that Churchill had a public career of over 60 years and in that time wrote hundreds of books and articels and made thousands of speeches, so it is quite possible that the remark was made at some point."
  },
  "barke-de": {
   "source": "https://www.statistik-bw.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Service/Veroeff/Statistisches_Monatsheft/PDF/Beitrag04_11_11.pdf",
   "kept": "barke-2004.txt",
   "excerpt": "Derzeit, so ist zu vermerken, konnte noch niemand eine Quelle für das Zitat benennen."
  },
  "nws": {
   "source": "https://www.weather.gov/safety/flood-during",
   "kept": "nws-flood.txt",
   "excerpt": "It only takes 6 inches of moving water to knock you off your feet."
  },
  "cern-99": {
   "source": "https://home.cern/news/news/physics/other-99",
   "kept": "cern-99.txt",
   "excerpt": "Protons and neutrons are themselves composed of trios of particles called quarks, which are only a little heavier than the electrons and contribute less than 1% to the mass"
  },
  "quigg": {
   "source": "https://arxiv.org/abs/0901.3958",
   "kept": "quigg-shrock.txt",
   "excerpt": "A massless electron means that the Bohr radius of an atom—half a nanometer in the real world—would be infinite.2 In a world without compact atoms, valence chemical bonding would have no meaning. All matter would be insubstantial—and life as we know it would not exist!"
  },
  "lsj": {
   "source": "https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/xmlchunk?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aentry%3Dqhsauro%2Fs",
   "kept": "thesaurus-dinosaur.txt",
   "excerpt": "θησαυρός, ὁ, store, treasure,"
  },
  "owen": {
   "source": "https://archive.org/details/reportofeleventh42lond/page/n142/mode/1up",
   "kept": "thesaurus-dinosaur.txt",
   "excerpt": "* Gr. δεινὸς, fearfully great; σαύρος, a lizard."
  },
  "goldfish-drive": {
   "source": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34896210/",
   "kept": "goldfish.txt",
   "excerpt": "The fish were tasked to \"drive\" the FOV towards a visual target in the terrestrial environment, which was observable through the walls of the tank, and indeed were able to operate the vehicle, explore the new environment, and reach the target regardless of the starting point,"
  },
  "cern-higgs-mass": {
   "source": "https://home.cern/science/physics/higgs-boson",
   "kept": "cern-higgs.txt",
   "excerpt": "Particles get their mass by interacting with the Higgs field; they do not have a mass of their own."
  },
  "cern-higgs-wave": {
   "source": "https://home.cern/science/physics/higgs-boson",
   "kept": "cern-higgs.txt",
   "excerpt": "The Higgs boson is a wave in that field."
  },
  "clausius": {
   "source": "https://archive.org/details/sim_annalen-der-physik_1865_125_7/page/n47/mode/1up",
   "kept": "clausius-1865.txt",
   "excerpt": "1) Die Energie der Welt ist constant.\n    2) Die Entropie der Welt strebt einem Maximum zu."
  },
  "philogelos": {
   "source": "https://archive.org/details/gpachymerisdecla00bois/page/n336/mode/1up",
   "kept": "philogelos-253.txt",
   "excerpt": "σνγ'. Σχολαστικὸς¹¹ μαθὼν ὅτι ὁ κόραξ ὑπὲρ τὰ διακόσια ἔτη ζῇ, ἀγοράσας κόρακα εἰς ἀπόπειραν ἔτρεφε¹²."
  },
  "berg": {
   "source": "https://archive.org/details/philogelos-the-laugh-addict-the-worlds-oldest-joke-book/page/n5/mode/1up",
   "kept": "berg-2008-preface.txt",
   "excerpt": "All of them, of course, go back to a much earlier archetype, probably (judging from content and language) from the fourth century C.E."
  },
  "gell-mann": {
   "source": "https://archive.org/details/quarkjaguaradven0000gell",
   "kept": "gell-mann-quark.txt",
   "excerpt": "In 1963, when I assigned the name “quark” to the fundamental constituents of the nucleon, I had the sound first, without the spelling, which could have been “kwork.” Then, in one of my occasional perusals of Finnegans Wake, by James Joyce, I came across the word “quark” in the phrase “Three quarks for Muster Mark.” Since “quark” (meaning, for one thing, the cry of a gull) was clearly intended to rhyme with “Mark,” as well as “bark” and other such words, I had to find an excuse to pronounce it as “kwork.” But the book represents the dream of a publican named Humphrey Chimpden Earwicker. Words in the text are typically drawn from several sources at once, like the “portmanteau words” in Through the Looking Glass. From time to time, phrases occur in the book that are partially determined by calls for drinks at the bar. I argued, therefore, that perhaps one of the multiple sources of the cry “Three quarks for Muster Mark” might be “Three quarts for Mister [page break: running head \"QUARKS AND ALL THAT: THE STANDARD MODEL • 181\"] Mark,”"
  },
  "pullum": {
   "source": "http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/archives/005471.html",
   "kept": "english-tenses.txt",
   "excerpt": "And it seemed to me to provide a very nice illustration of a little-understood fact: the English language has no future tense. Not a trace of one."
  },
  "knick": {
   "source": "https://archive.org/details/sim_foederal-american-monthly_1847-03_29_3/page/n86/mode/1up",
   "kept": "knickerbocker-1847.txt",
   "excerpt": "There are ‘quips and quillets’ which seem actual conundrums, but yet are none. Of such is this: ‘Why does a chicken cross the street? Are you ‘out of town?’ Do you ‘give it up?’ Well, then: ‘Because it wants to get on the other side!’"
  }
 }
}