12 January 05

Not in Kansas Anymore Dept.

So yesterday I was just minding my business on my way to the bathroom at work which is in another building the one that’s connected to the lab and I’m thinking how nice it is that the sun’s finally shining after all this rain and it’s a little chilly but not bad really and I open the lab door and take the first left into the women’s room and what’s in there but two women with samples all over the floor I mean not just a few but ALL OVER looking frantically for a pair of Island Fox lung specimens so I tiptoe over their cooler and all the plastic sample bags after asking permission and go into the single stall and think how mundane the women’s room used to be in Mrak Hall where people would gather and talk about what TV shows they saw last night or what they were cooking for dinner and I’ll tell you what it wasn’t fox lungs.

Posted by at 08:14 PM in Nature and Place | Link |

  1. Wait, does this mean that men were being shut out of the Island Fox lung research? Isn’t this a lot like what those all-male clubs got in trouble for?

    Of course, the men’s room was probably full of cougar claws or something …



    — Jarrett    12. January 2005, 21:09    Link
  2. No, in the men’s room are cheetah specimens.

    (Not really: the freezer is in the women’s room because it’s a little larger, and the cheetahs are in there too.)

    — Pica    13. January 2005, 04:22    Link
  3. So the specimen freezer is in the Ladies? Sounds like you need more space. It reminds me of the Paralympic swimming in 2000 when we had to step over all the prosthetic limbs swimmers had left on the pool deck in their rush to get to events.

    — Jenny    13. January 2005, 10:14    Link

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