• February 14, 2012

Steven Chu doesn't like this.
Oh great, now you cretins have ruined the Facebook experience of a Nobel-prize-winning physicist who is saving America from Energy Problems, when he’s not cooking or trying to learn golf.

After Energy Secretary Chu’s personal Facebook page was publicized by such anti-American forces as the Wall Street Journal and this one blog somewhere, Dr. Chu was compelled to log in and delete all his funny old big-glasses profile pictures, and personal stuff (about cooking and learning to golf), and now his page is just lame. Become a fan! [WSJ/Infrastructurist]

{ 70 comments }

SayItWithWookies July 21, 2009 at 6:14 pm

I hope he’s removed any incriminating pics of him having a tokamak.

Min July 21, 2009 at 6:14 pm

I thought only teenagers and pedophiles hung out on Facebook. Oh, wait…that’s MySpace.

My bad.

user-of-owls July 21, 2009 at 6:16 pm

What’s even sadder is that this guy wins a Nobel Prize and is named to the Cabinet…and has a total of 640 friends. I have undergrad bimbettas that have to Google “How To Open A Book” that have five times that number of friends. Steve Chu needs to post photos of himself in a schoolgirl costume to stop climate change.

Humpback July 21, 2009 at 6:17 pm

Facebook is mentioned in the Bible. In Revelations. One of the signs.

ManchuCandidate July 21, 2009 at 6:21 pm

Who made Chu?

Tommmcatt July 21, 2009 at 6:22 pm

[re=367398]Min[/re]:

Yeah, Facebook is apparently for my mom and her cousins.

Ken Layne July 21, 2009 at 6:23 pm

Jesus fucking christ, what is wrong with you people? Honestly, what is wrong with you? Why are you here?

I will now ban everyone.

ManchuCandidate July 21, 2009 at 6:26 pm

[re=367407]mrsixinch[/re]:
Despite that we Asians get our laughs at you white guys expense, too. No, nothing about going pee pee in your coke. Silly white people think those Asian characters mean strength or wisdom or some other profound shit. They really say: Limp Dicked Douchenozzle, Easy White Girl or Limit Two Riders.

hobospacejunkie July 21, 2009 at 6:30 pm

What I meant was how horrible it is that now even the WSJ chooses to play childish games rather than debate polivy with a Nobel laureate.

EricCantor4Prez July 21, 2009 at 6:32 pm

I am sure, that there is, more to it, than the article says.

Did he onlydelete cooking stuff or was there inappropriate comments also.

chascates July 21, 2009 at 6:32 pm

Joe Barton has stumped him again.

mrsixinch July 21, 2009 at 6:33 pm

Hey, he did ban everyone! Yikes!

Mad Farmer Manifest July 21, 2009 at 6:37 pm

Steven Chu may be on Facebook, but I still refuse to sign up for it. Bomb the fucking internet.

I’m waiting for Dr. Chu to get fed up and destroy the Republicans and the oil industry (same thing, I know). He’ll emerge from an underground lair wearing a fusion powered exoskeleton and smite them all. It’s going to be completely fucking awesome.

Bronkers July 21, 2009 at 6:38 pm

[re=367417]Ken Layne[/re]: OK, OK, I’ll finish up and take the 7:12 home… gee, Ken, you should yell at me more often; I’d get home earlier. And feel less guilty about goofing off on the job because I won’t be on the job…. I’ll go home and fuss with Facebook.

hobospacejunkie July 21, 2009 at 6:41 pm

[re=367419]ManchuCandidate[/re]: I knew my Taiwanese ice cream store owner friend was lying to me when he said the characters on my super-shrinking rayon t-shirt meant “China dragon.”

DoktorZoom July 21, 2009 at 6:42 pm

I wonder if Chu needs more Mob Wars members?

NoWireHangers July 21, 2009 at 6:44 pm

[re=367417]Ken Layne[/re]: What Chu talkin’ about Willis?

hobospacejunkie July 21, 2009 at 6:46 pm

Thankfully Ken has embraced the “hate the sin, not the sinner” philosophy of banning today. It’s too bad low-hanging fruit (or rather the fruit squishing between our toes) is so tempting and delicious. Unfortunately it is no more nutritional than junk food.

the lady MS. Sheila Dixon July 21, 2009 at 6:46 pm

[re=367424]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Thinking of you….(though you’ve probably been seen this already)

http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&streamingFormat=FLASH&referralObject=7151772&referralPlaylistId=playlist

nappyduggs July 21, 2009 at 6:50 pm

[re=367417]Ken Layne[/re]:

Can’t I just go without dessert tonight?

Smoke Filled Roommate July 21, 2009 at 6:52 pm

Nobel Prize winning physicists and Facebook don’t really go together anyway…

azw88 July 21, 2009 at 6:52 pm

[re=367417]Ken Layne[/re]: banhammered post deleted for making a buttsecks joke asking a question?

Holding Out for a Hero July 21, 2009 at 6:53 pm

[re=367417]Ken Layne[/re]: Um…I am reading/posting on Wonkette from home whilst drinking. I thought I was doing it right?

azw88 July 21, 2009 at 6:56 pm

[re=367451]Holding Out for a Hero[/re]: lucky YOU! I am doing it from the county jail. (seriously)

rocktonsammy July 21, 2009 at 6:57 pm

[re=367417]Ken Layne[/re]: I didn’t say anything, I don’t even know who Chu is.

user-of-owls July 21, 2009 at 7:02 pm

Forgive a retard question (I’m lookin’ at you, elephant-costume), any help with a thread from a while back that was along the lines of “The metro station was closed and I had to walk four blocks. Now I know what the Bataan Death March felt like.” Tried to find it, but no luck. Cuz I wanted to do a “I once was maybe threatened by Ken Layne with a banning. Now I know what it felt like to be a Chinese intellectual during the Cultural Revolution.” But now it’s ruined.

hobospacejunkie July 21, 2009 at 7:06 pm

[re=367446]the lady MS. Sheila Dixon[/re]: That was newsworthy? Well, OK, apparently this species is the most venomous in North America. But news headline fail — scorpions don’t bite. They sting with their tails. I thought that much would be obvious. Thanks for thinking of me!

Uncle Glenny July 21, 2009 at 7:06 pm

I am baffled.

Holding Out for a Hero July 21, 2009 at 7:07 pm

[re=367453]azw88[/re]: Um…ok…do you need bail money?

ioksotot23 July 21, 2009 at 7:10 pm

Who are Chu? Who Who Who Who
What Chu What Chu What Chu Want
Chu are the Sunshine of my Life
Blue Suede Chu’s
Chu Shook me All Night Long
I am he as you are he as Chu are me and we are all together.(Coo Coo Ca Chu)

hobospacejunkie July 21, 2009 at 7:12 pm

[re=367458]user-of-owls[/re]: Key search term: Hoekstra

natoslug July 21, 2009 at 7:14 pm

Gesundheit.

hobospacejunkie July 21, 2009 at 7:16 pm

[re=367466]ioksotot23[/re]: [re=367463]paintitblack[/re]: Oh c’mon guys, I just had this suit pressed. I don’t want brain splatter all over it when the banhammer, or perhaps the baneraser, swings your way.

user-of-owls July 21, 2009 at 7:18 pm

[re=367468]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Woo-hoo! Thank you!! “I just found out how to track the Hoekstra meme. Now I know how Watson and Crick felt.”

NoWireHangers July 21, 2009 at 7:19 pm

[re=367470]natoslug[/re]: heh

pedestrian rage July 21, 2009 at 7:20 pm

Way to go, snarkholes. You’ve ruined the internets for Steven Chu AND Ken Layne. I hope you’re pleased with yourselves. Harumpf!

Country Club Jihadi July 21, 2009 at 7:52 pm

It had to be Chu. Chu had me at Hello.

V572625694 July 21, 2009 at 8:01 pm

Chu only hurt the one you love.

Forgive me, Ken!

dennymcden July 21, 2009 at 8:41 pm

I like Chinese!

2druk2phluq July 21, 2009 at 8:44 pm

[re=367493]V572625694[/re]: I’m going to have to have your pun surgically removed from the eyeball it got lodged in trying to enter my brain — too clunky to fit. So, hey, baby. Wanna have sex inside a DC dumpster? The one I stay in is pretty nice. And you can see the newspaper machine if you prop the lid open, so there’s news.

loquaciousmusic July 21, 2009 at 8:55 pm

Coo coo ca Chu, Mrs. Robinson!

Tommmcatt July 21, 2009 at 9:03 pm

Is it safe in here yet? Because I have some supercool ironic racism I want to try out…

mauricewalkersiszlakIV July 21, 2009 at 9:06 pm

What the hell’s wrong with him? Monkey in the hammock?

lizard scum July 21, 2009 at 9:13 pm

[re=367506]Tommmcatt[/re]: I gave up conservatism when I found out that long as you’re a liberal racism is A-OK! (Because it’s “ironic,” by assumption.)
(This is called “liberal fascism” and it’s just like gassing Jews.)

lizard scum July 21, 2009 at 9:15 pm

[re=367510]lizard scum[/re]: …or like gassing the Chus, LOL

Scrodd July 21, 2009 at 9:19 pm

Why the banning?

lizard scum July 21, 2009 at 9:26 pm

[re=367513]Scrodd[/re]: Dunno, I think someone made a dumber-than-usual dick joke, since deleted. Then the banning, but as you see there’s a remnant of us remaining, because a narcissistic sociopath can’t destroy all his subjects.

azw88 July 21, 2009 at 9:47 pm

[re=367464]Holding Out for a Hero[/re]: No, I still have my get (in and) out of jail free card. (I do some work @ the Jail)

Though I could use a get outta the banhammer bail

shortsshortsshorts July 21, 2009 at 10:02 pm

I heard The Love Boat is coming back and they need a sassy replacement for Herve Villachez.

SayItWithWookies July 21, 2009 at 10:11 pm

[re=367522]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Who played Julie (your cruise director)’s coke dealer when he wasn’t portraying Tattoo on Fantasy Island?

BwanaJim July 21, 2009 at 10:14 pm

No one on here has any idea how smart this guy is. He won the nobel for figuring out how to shoot lasers at atoms and make them stop in their tracks. He could probably give a rat’s ass about facebook.

shortsshortsshorts July 21, 2009 at 10:15 pm

[re=367524]SayItWithWookies[/re]: I believe it was David Chu, Wookies. However, there is no source for this, and that alone is an injustice.

shortsshortsshorts July 21, 2009 at 10:19 pm

Steven Chu is doing a bang up job though.

shortsshortsshorts July 21, 2009 at 10:24 pm

[re=367527]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: retard: Tatoo is David CHIU: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Chiu_(politician)

Killed the joke: therefore, I am a terrible failure of a human being.

Carry on.

Witsendnj July 21, 2009 at 10:44 pm

[re=367417]Ken Layne[/re]:

Ken get a grip. Don’t ban everyone. Ban stupids, morans, and muslins.

StoneAge July 21, 2009 at 10:53 pm

Aw, I missed the fun. Come on, at least leave the banee’s post up so those of us who can’t Wonk it until 10pm can see what we’re missing.

So, what’d it say?

Dirty Harriett July 21, 2009 at 11:10 pm

Just as I started reading this article, Steve Chu appears on The Daily Show…weird, huh?

SayItWithWookies July 21, 2009 at 11:12 pm

[re=367529]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: It’s alright — they didn’t even have a picture, so I wouldn’t be able to note the resemblance anyway.

imissopus July 21, 2009 at 11:12 pm

I believe Woody Allen had a Chu bit in Annie Hall, yes?

Did Chu eat?

No, did Chu?

rambone July 21, 2009 at 11:39 pm

Well, if I am banned, I insist that:


Don’t, Don’t, Don’t, Don’t,

Don’t Chiu, Forget About Me . . .

Smoke Filled Roommate July 22, 2009 at 12:32 am

[re=367518]azw88[/re]: Wow, you’re an Arizona Liberal in King Arpaio’s Court Circus? Which ‘Tent’? ;)

gurukalehuru July 22, 2009 at 12:35 am

Chu chu choose me!

lawrenceofthedesert July 22, 2009 at 2:44 am

Well, these comments gave me something to, uh, masticate on… and made me remember that even if someone doesn’t look Chuish, he could be.

Extemporanus July 22, 2009 at 3:14 am

I attempted to post something much, much earlier, but according to a gracious e-mail from Kaptain Ken, it “got caught in a ban-net, much like dolphin are caught in tuna nets.”

Thankfully, he then added “But, unlike the poor dolphin, you are a catch-and-release, so comment away.”

So, at the risk of overflowing the ban bucket, I’m gonna toss this now-rotten chunk of chum out there one last time:

GREAT NEWS!

Steven has a new foodie blog called Chu Your Food!

He’s been posting like crazy, so check it out!

TGY July 22, 2009 at 3:18 am

[re=367419]ManchuCandidate[/re]: Hah! I defy you to post characters for Limp Dicked Douchenozzle. Though I suppose they must be rather limp strokes.

The Facebook is not for physicists. They aren’t allowed anywhere on teh Intarwebs except for xkcd.com.

Suds McKenzie July 22, 2009 at 4:52 am

[re=367654]Extemporanus[/re]: Thanks for ruining my “Thanks For Ruining Steven Chu’s Facebook Experience” experience.

Suds McKenzie July 22, 2009 at 5:02 am

[re=367654]Extemporanus[/re]: that was fuckin awesome btw. ty

godforbidowright July 22, 2009 at 11:41 am

[re=367398]Min[/re]: Myspace has country singers too!!

Extemporanus July 22, 2009 at 12:51 pm

[re=367669]Suds McKenzie[/re]: Sorry for ruining your experience (it wasn’t me!), and thank you for enjoying mine.

I’m just happy at least someone saw Chu Your Food! However, I’m not so happy that it languished for so many hours in the indiscriminately cruel ban-net that this thread was a fucking ghost town when it was released.

That’ll teach me not to put any kind of actual effort into my comments, I guess.

skizdi July 23, 2009 at 11:50 am

[re=367654]Extemporanus[/re]: Dude, is this for real? I’m flipping my shit if it is, but I mean: that penis parsnip? Really?

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