Every biology teaching lab should have a skeleton. The best lab skeletons have names. My skeleton is Steve.
![](https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-PmQ_sr8w4bU/TgpGzhirqxI/AAAAAAABZpA/e1AC4Q_YAXw/s400/DSCN9505.JPG)
Steve has featured in a number of outgoing class photos, and it is a joy for me each September to see how long it will be before the new students try to make Steve grope his non-existent breasts. Just over a year ago, the Class of 2011 decided to show one of Steve's peccadilloes - in this case, it was bestiality:
![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-94hBaTPfJhg/Tk6JZJVzp-I/AAAAAAABabg/RReiaDX8QUc/s400/IMAG0710.jpg)
He likes Halloween, and was most impressed with his outfit:
![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-_GknaRMHfHU/TrxNt6yex6I/AAAAAAABbQs/-wO_NA5uWtE/s400/IMAG0896.jpg)
And in the absence of a Christmas tree, he gallantly stepped up to be covered in decorations:
![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-jE7V6pcQhfU/TufUMg53BrI/AAAAAAABbWM/1QeUYdlSmaw/s400/IMAG0971.jpg)
Courtesy of the Class of 2012, Steve lost his head and indulged in a bit of fisting:
![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-IlalggzuRrQ/T-N-TGaRiUI/AAAAAAABfBM/MZryuDH-PBM/s400/IMAG0336.jpg)
But on Friday it all got a bit too much for him, and my HND class made him into a NEET:
![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-r_fXubVup0g/UIMSvNDPvnI/AAAAAAABf8A/uvQ67rUPERM/s400/IMAG0616.jpg)
After many years, two dislocated shoulders, a missing atlas and a pigeon chest, Steve is retiring. He has been replaced by Steve 2, who is taller, better put together, and crucially this time, actually a male skeleton. Steve 1 is coming back to Jurassic Towers, which will be his forever home.
Steve has featured in a number of outgoing class photos, and it is a joy for me each September to see how long it will be before the new students try to make Steve grope his non-existent breasts. Just over a year ago, the Class of 2011 decided to show one of Steve's peccadilloes - in this case, it was bestiality:
![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-94hBaTPfJhg/Tk6JZJVzp-I/AAAAAAABabg/RReiaDX8QUc/s400/IMAG0710.jpg)
He likes Halloween, and was most impressed with his outfit:
![](https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-_GknaRMHfHU/TrxNt6yex6I/AAAAAAABbQs/-wO_NA5uWtE/s400/IMAG0896.jpg)
And in the absence of a Christmas tree, he gallantly stepped up to be covered in decorations:
![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-jE7V6pcQhfU/TufUMg53BrI/AAAAAAABbWM/1QeUYdlSmaw/s400/IMAG0971.jpg)
Courtesy of the Class of 2012, Steve lost his head and indulged in a bit of fisting:
![](https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-IlalggzuRrQ/T-N-TGaRiUI/AAAAAAABfBM/MZryuDH-PBM/s400/IMAG0336.jpg)
But on Friday it all got a bit too much for him, and my HND class made him into a NEET:
![](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-r_fXubVup0g/UIMSvNDPvnI/AAAAAAABf8A/uvQ67rUPERM/s400/IMAG0616.jpg)
After many years, two dislocated shoulders, a missing atlas and a pigeon chest, Steve is retiring. He has been replaced by Steve 2, who is taller, better put together, and crucially this time, actually a male skeleton. Steve 1 is coming back to Jurassic Towers, which will be his forever home.
Occurs to me we missed a trick by not arranging him as to be getting a kneeling beej from that half-flayed mannequin with the removal viscera. Poor Steve.
ReplyDelete*removable. Damn keyboard's going >:|
DeleteChallenge accepted...
DeleteI approve of this!
DeleteSo I seem to have come into possession of an Arum italicum. You want it? Be a shame to kill it after Twitter took pains to identify it.
ReplyDeleteSure - maybe putting it on the lab windowsill will make me less likely to kill it myself! :)
DeleteOkie doke. Once I've potted it though I'm gonna let it sit before transporting it, lest it get too many shocks at once.
DeletePic 4 still makes me think of Hogfather.
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