It Might as Well be String

title banner from a Goodies spoof documentary about string

A reader asked for more string. You can see my reply here. Not being one to deny the punters entirely, title banner from a Goodies spoof documentary about stringI’ll pass on some clips from a 70s British TV comedy show, about string. It was a popular show called “The Goodies”. Some of you might remember them. Well, they did an entire episode with the title “It might as well be string”, and although the clips (below) are out of context and even with not knowing the characters and so forth (I don’t) there are some amusing bits here and there, if you turn it around to poke harmless fun at those of us who work on string theory decades later – It’s all about a PR/Advertising campaign for string!

There’s the string song, the “documentary” about string (best to gloss over the oh-so-funny “smelly Arab” remarks and accompanying laughter), the excellent samples from the […] Click to continue reading this post