heheheh....swiped from an IM conversation with galieth

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Replies To An Invitation To A Scientists' Ball
(Bonus points if you get all the references. jrug, you're disqualified, as I know that you already looked up the ones with whom you were unfamiliar.)

• Pierre and Marie Curie were radiating enthusiasm.
  
• Einstein thought it would be relatively easy to attend.
  
• Volta was electrified and Archimedes was buoyant at the thought.
  
• Ampere was worried he wasn't up on current research.
  
• Ohm resisted the idea at first.
  
• Boyle said he was under too much pressure.
  
• Edison thought it would be an illuminating experience.
  
• Watt reckoned it would be a good way to let off steam.
  
• Stephenson thought the whole idea was loco.
  
• Wilbur Wright accepted, provided he and Orville could get a flight.
  
• Dr Jekyll declined -- he hadn't been feeling himself lately.
  
• Morse's reply: "I'll be there on the dot. Can't stop now must dash."
  
• Heisenberg was uncertain if he could make it.
  
• Hertz said he planned the future to attend with greater frequency.
  
• Henry begged off due to a low capacity for alcohol.
  
• Audubon said he'd have to wing it.
  
• Hawking said he'd try to string enough time together to make a space in his schedule.
  
• Darwin said he'd have to see what evolved.
  
• Schrodinger had to take his cat to the vet, or did he?
  
• Mendel was invited because he was a man of breeding.
  
• Descartes said he'd think about it.
  
• Newton was moved to attend.
  
• Pavlov was drooling at the thought.
  
• Gauss was asked to attend because of his magnetic personality.