I know it's (barely) related to the current thread, but Queen has an astrophysicist as a lead guitarist... Face it, some people can pull this multi-discipline s*ht off.

Brian May's story is pretty impressive. He left school while pursuing his PhD when Queen became popular. Over 30 years later he finished his studies and obtained his degree.

There's also Brian Cox (there must be something in the UK water about turning out musicians/physicists):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Cox_(physicist)

Also Tom Scholz of Boston. MIT-trained mechanical engineer, worked for Polaroid, and then left to found one of great classic rock bands.

In that vein, all three members of the J. Geils Band were engineering students at my college (WPI) ;)

And apparently the lead singer/guitarist/keyboardist for OK Go (although I think that was after I left)

I scrolled all the way to the bottom of the comments, getting more and more depressed thinking as I'm the only old codger who remembers this meme. I am happy to find out I'm not the only one!

Ya, I did the same, and upvoted the comment when I saw it.

Would love to see the battle of votes on that comment. But sheesh, isn't it ok to have a little fun now and then. I mean it is even kinda on topic. :)

I had exactly the same thought, and I upvoted it too! I thought my comment would get downvoted to oblivion as well, but I'm glad I'm not the only one feeling nostalgic. When the meme isn't even features on KnowYourMeme.com, you know it's old.

Welp, it wouldn't be a hot grits comment if it didn't get modded into oblivion :P

Don't worry. Some of us old codgers still enjoy themselves.