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#1 You might be a biologist/bio major if

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 1:38 am
by Comrade Tortoise
This is a continuous collaborative effort by myself, shark baitk, and a friend of mine named Owen


“if you've ever found someone attractive because they carry arround a kill jar filled with dead bugs which reaks of ethyl acetateâ€

#2

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 7:05 am
by Shark Bait
"If you have contests with other students to see who has the most work due in the next week and frequently win said contests."

"If you consider the aquarium to be the ideal location for a first date."

#3

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 7:53 am
by Destructionator XV
"You think Endoplasmic Reticulum is the perfect word"
I prefer chemiosmotic photophosphorylation.

#4

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 8:47 am
by Mayabird
"You have ever bared your teeth and snarled at a rival as a threat display." (guilty)

"You named your vehicle after Charles Darwin (bonus points if it was a pickup truck)." (I get bonus points!)

"Not only do you have a giant microbe plushie, but you named it and talk to it." (Her name is Susie.)

"You've freaked out when someone said 'virii' instead of 'viruses'." (Well, I didn't hit them.)

"You read The Origin of Species and The Voyage of the Beagle for fun." (Yup.)


I'll think of more later.

Mmmm...endoplasmic reticulum...

#5

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 10:40 am
by Shark Bait
Mayabird wrote:"Not only do you have a giant microbe plushie, but you named it and talk to it." (Her name is Susie.)
I have 4, Ebola, Y. Pestis, Epstein-Barr, and Trypanosoma brucei.

Fluffy, spot, lizzy, and Bob respectively


Edit: I also really want to get a mad cow disease one... i'd name it bubba!

@Distructinator yes is nice but does not roll off the tongue quite like "endoplasmic reticulum"

#6

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:01 pm
by Mayabird
Shark Bait wrote:
Mayabird wrote:"Not only do you have a giant microbe plushie, but you named it and talk to it." (Her name is Susie.)
I have 4, Ebola, Y. Pestis, Epstein-Barr, and Trypanosoma brucei.

Fluffy, spot, lizzy, and Bob respectively
Awww, bubonic plague named Spot. Sleeping sickness just isn't a Bob to me, though.

Susie is Helicobacter pylori, aka the ulcer bacterium. Her full name is Susie Islington Warren-Marshall. She's much cuter than those pictures (she says the one they have photographed there is her cousin Walter) but she still can't explain how she's a female or how these supposed family relationships of hers are supposed to work. The important thing is that Susie herself will only attack tribbles, so she's just crashing at my place in case the tribbles try to eat Earth anytime soon. She likes music, dancing, and cuddling.

Did I win?

#7

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:32 pm
by Shark Bait
Sure you win and as a prize i give you a Shrodinger's box/cat though I would suggest not opening it. Just tell me where to mail it. :wink:

#8

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:36 pm
by Narsil
Shark Bait wrote:Sure you win and as a prize i give you a Shrodinger's box/cat though I would suggest not opening it. Just tell me where to mail it. :wink:
Basically, a box with Greebo in it?

#9

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 12:48 pm
by Shark Bait
Sorry Narsil not everything can be related to disk world, my box has more bells and whistles attached to it.

#10

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 4:49 pm
by Comrade Tortoise
"If you have ever given your best friend HIV for christmas"

"If you consider Mono to be a romantic gift"

"If you have ever painted Pogonomyrmix californicus queens in tripplets of red, blue and green, then dropped them into an artificial nest to see if they kill each other"

"If you did the above with a sample size of 210 ants in 70 different artifical nests"

#11

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 5:31 pm
by Mayabird
"If you ever stuck two soldier ants of different fire ant colonies into a jar to duke it out..."

"...and yelled, "Mutual Assured Destruction! Mutual Assured Destruction! Kill! Kill! Kill!" as you performed this experiment in intro Bio lab..."

"...and screamed it very loudly, scaring not only your labmates, but making your TA regret (for the second time!) coming to the U.S. for grad school."

Also,

"If you've ever been convinced that the chickadee making 'warning calls' near you is actually cussing you out."

"You've been attacked by a mother robin because you just had to check out the nestlings."

"You've been performing a long-term experiment in forest succession, in which you remove all pine seedlings from a cleared lot and see what happens then."

#12

Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 5:37 pm
by Shark Bait
"If you bio teacher has ever told you that you really need to get a life." (actually she said that to both CT and I)

#13

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:04 am
by frigidmagi
[quote]“If you have ever gotten into a fistfight over whether or not T Rex was a scavengerâ€

#14

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 11:09 am
by Narsil
You think spiders are cuter than kittens
(based on an AIM conversation between Comrade Tortoise and I)

#15

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 12:17 pm
by Shark Bait
"You refer to what you look for in a girl as 'Ideals in mate selection'"

#16

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 1:38 pm
by Something Awesome
"If you've ever hummed showtunes while disecting an animal."
I whistled "Rule Britannia" while dissecting a fetal pig in my AP Biology class a few weeks ago, though I'm going to be majoring in Math, not Bio.

#17

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 2:04 pm
by Comrade Tortoise
[quote="frigidmagi"][quote]“If you have ever gotten into a fistfight over whether or not T Rex was a scavengerâ€

#18

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 2:17 pm
by frigidmagi
It didn't require much work.

#19

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 8:11 pm
by Lindar
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"If you consider the aquarium to be the ideal location for a first date."
uhm...i do think the zoo is a perfect place to go for a date. the aquarium too...

*terrified* Does that mean there's something wrong with me?

*wink* nice list lotsa giggles.

#20

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 8:15 pm
by Shark Bait
Nah nothing wrong with ya, no see this arises out of my own idea of doing just that taking a girl to the aquarium because there is one spot that i think is very romantic darkend part of the aquarium with benches and stuff infront of three 10 x 14 ft windows looking into a huge reef exhibit

#21

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 8:33 pm
by Lindar
Shark Bait wrote:Nah nothing wrong with ya, no see this arises out of my own idea of doing just that taking a girl to the aquarium because there is one spot that i think is very romantic darkend part of the aquarium with benches and stuff infront of three 10 x 14 ft windows looking into a huge reef exhibit
oooh Squee!

That's sooo like the place i liked at the zoo, well there were two places that were nice at the zoo. (san diego, it was HUGE)

There was the alligator and croc and turtle habitat, and the one with the polar bears...*brrr* It was sooo fun!

#22

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:40 pm
by B4UTRUST
Something Awesome wrote:I whistled "Rule Britannia" while dissecting a fetal pig in my AP Biology class a few weeks ago
My lab partner and I, right after lunch(bbq pork day ironically enough) we come into the class with little packets of bbq sauce. So we start singing the Chili's baby-back ribs song while discecting this fetal pig...no gloves, just ripping into this thing.

"Oh I want my babyback babyback babyback, oh I want my babyback babyback babyback, oh I want my Chilis Babyback ribs oh Chili's babyback ribs!"

*chuckles* One girl sat there, turned, looked at us...and I quote "I don't feel so good..." followed by the thump of her hitting the ground...

^_^

#23

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:44 pm
by Shark Bait
HAHAHAHAHA *falls off chair laughing*

#24

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:46 pm
by Comrade Tortoise
NICE!!!

I seem to remember Shark Bait naming his fetal Pig Jimmy Dean and making a bunch of "pigs in a blankt" puns

#25

Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 9:48 pm
by Shark Bait
yep and mat dixon was my lab partner and he was making almost as many bad jokes as I was