Our favorite Lance-isms (an incomplete list)

Try to get the answers 2 different ways.

Remember to do the right hand rule with the right hand.

Where is the "adiabatic sea"? It's where old isentropes go to die.

...the lowest couple of meters, where the taxpayers live.

Once the rockets go up who cares where they come down! That's not my department says Werner Von Brown.

Remember we shoot the lawyers first.

Croak-o-genesis.

Sucking potential.

short, stubby jets

furlongs per fortnight

...the un"seam"ly atmosphere.

The hodograph is the cats meow of convection...

The "out-of-balance" makes the atmosphere "exciting".

Too much emphasis on rigor, leads to rigor mortis.

A paper written (or not written) on the bathroom time scale.

Beta makes the world go round...

d (crap) / dt still equals crap.

Effluent in = effluent out.

C'mon people!

Euler's formula's...those golden oldies always come back sometime.

I'm prepared to be wrong.

More bang for your buck.

Until the cows come home.

Katie, bar the door!

Let's make sure we're all on the same page.

Lost in the sauce...

....it's like a roach motel, they go in but they don't come out.

..it's like the Supreme Court ruling on pornography, I know it when I see it.

It's like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.

It's like rearranging manure in the barnyard...

It's not how long you make it, it's how you make it long.

It's easier to beg forgiveness, than to ask permission.

It's like the blind leading the blind.

The atmosphere, like Bill Clinton, has its erogeneous zones.

Don't throw out the baby with the bath water.

[Shear] is like porridge, it has to be just right.

Even if you increase the resolution to Cockroach scale....

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Last updated 29 September 1999.