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You know you've worked too long in a lab when - I shall let this one make it rounds (Aug/03/2007 )

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This is something I got in the mail. I though I'll pass it on.

You know you've worked too long in a lab when

1. You wonder what absolute alcohol tastes like with orange juice

2. You can tell what cheap and expensive white coats look like

3. You can't watch CSI without cursing at least one scientific inaccuracy

4. You use accronimes for everything and never stop to elaborate

5. Liquid nitrogen is only about a 1/3 as dangerous as you thought

6. You always seem to use the microscope after the person with the impossible close together eyes

7. You've wondered why you can't drink distilled water in the lab - It should be clean?

8. You give the lab equipment motivational pep talks "Work for me today or i'll reprogram you with a fire axe" is my favorite

9. You've worked out that a trained chimp could probably do 90% of your job

10. Youhave to check the web to find out what the weather is outside

11. People wearing shorts under a lab coat disturb you slightly as they look as though they might be naked underneath.

12. Warning labels invoke curiosity rather than caution.

13. You know which part of the lab you can chill out undisturbed on friday afternoon.

14. You decide the courses and conference you want to go on by the quality of the food served.

15. No matter what the timings in the experiment protocol there is always time for lunch in the middle.

16. Burning eyes, nose and throat indicate that you haven't actually turned on the fumehood/downdraft bench.

17. Your slightly too fond of the smell of (pick one or many) Xylene/Agar/Ethanol/Undergraduates/Alcoholic handwash.

18. You've left the lab wearing a piece of PPE (personal protective equipment) because you forgot you had it on.

19. You have an irresistible urge to rip your shirt off superman stylie cos it has press stud fasteners just like your lab coat.....Most often occurring as you walk through a door just like exiting the lab...

20. Blinking real fast has saved your eyesight on more than one occasion.

21. You've removed your gloves to find a small hole which has left you with either - wrinkly old person hands, a brightly coloured finger (histologists especially) or a burning sensation and dermatitis and some point.

22. You've bent down to pick something up off the floor only to scatter the contents of your top pocket under the largest machine in the lab.

23.When you rejoice when grabbing a handfull of eppendorfs/bijous/anything and it turns outs to be the exact number you needed.

24. You hate having to change your lab coat to a new one because 'it just won't fit right' and because the wrist bits are way too tight.

25.Your nose invariably itches when you're doing mucky stuff with your hands so you develop the habit of scratching it on your upper arm. Unfortunately you sometimes carry this habit over to real life, where it looks like you're sniffing your armpits.

-perneseblue-

i've definitely worked too long in a lab wacko.gif it looks all too familiar

-dpo-

QUOTE
1. You wonder what absolute alcohol tastes like with orange juice
5. Liquid nitrogen is only about a 1/3 as dangerous as you thought
7. You've wondered why you can't drink distilled water in the lab - It should be clean?
10. Youhave to check the web to find out what the weather is outside
13. You know which part of the lab you can chill out undisturbed on friday afternoon.
18. You've left the lab wearing a piece of PPE (personal protective equipment) because you forgot you had it on.
22. You've bent down to pick something up off the floor only to scatter the contents of your top pocket under the largest machine in the lab.

at least for these i've worked too much blink.gif dry.gif

-fred_33-

QUOTE (perneseblue @ Aug 3 2007, 11:23 PM)
7. You've wondered why you can't drink distilled water in the lab - It should be clean?


You read my mind !!!!!

-Bungalow Boy-

Safety first. I always instruct my undergraduates during their lab safety training that absolute ethanol is not for drinking. Only the 95% ethanol is good for that. Absolute has some benzene, and is nasty, even with orange juice.

Distilled water and (especially) milliQ water tastes disgusting and flat.

-phage434-

QUOTE (Bungalow Boy @ Aug 3 2007, 02:02 PM)
QUOTE (perneseblue @ Aug 3 2007, 11:23 PM)
7. You've wondered why you can't drink distilled water in the lab - It should be clean?


You read my mind !!!!!


me too smile.gif !

-strawberry-

QUOTE
8. You give the lab equipment motivational pep talks "Work for me today or i'll reprogram you with a fire axe" is my favorite

9. You've worked out that a trained chimp could probably do 90% of your job

15. No matter what the timings in the experiment protocol there is always time for lunch in the middle.

19. You have an irresistible urge to rip your shirt off superman stylie cos it has press stud fasteners just like your lab coat.....Most often occurring as you walk through a door just like exiting the lab...

21. You've removed your gloves to find a small hole which has left you with either - wrinkly old person hands, a brightly coloured finger (histologists especially) or a burning sensation and dermatitis and some point.

25.Your nose invariably itches when you're doing mucky stuff with your hands so you develop the habit of scratching it on your upper arm. Unfortunately you sometimes carry this habit over to real life, where it looks like you're sniffing your armpits.


Ha!

May I add...
26. You begin to smell (adj.).

27. You apply alcohol to your armpit hoping that the smell from esterification will last you another few hours in the lab unnoticed.

27. Your boss got a shock when he/she sees you, clearly mistaken you as a drug addict.

28. Your face looks like a furball. Esp. guys.

29. You keep on having deja vu.

-I love MSGs!-

30. You can remember exactly how much reagent to be used for your pcr master mixes without re-calculating or referring to notes.

31. You know where every tiny bit of equipments are kept in the lab.

-money-

QUOTE (perneseblue @ Aug 3 2007, 08:23 AM)
6. You always seem to use the microscope after the person with the impossible close together eyes
7. You've wondered why you can't drink distilled water in the lab - It should be clean?
9. You've worked out that a trained chimp could probably do 90% of your job
10. Youhave to check the web to find out what the weather is outside
15. No matter what the timings in the experiment protocol there is always time for lunch in the middle.
17. Your slightly too fond of the smell of (pick one or many) Xylene/Agar/Ethanol
23.When you rejoice when grabbing a handfull of eppendorfs/bijous/anything and it turns outs to be the exact number you needed.
25.Your nose invariably itches when you're doing mucky stuff with your hands so you develop the habit of scratching it on your upper arm. Unfortunately you sometimes carry this habit over to real life, where it looks like you're sniffing your armpits.


I guess with all these points I too have worked in the lab for a long time.

Usually, I donot wear any piece of PPE (ofcoiurse, I have all of them in stored neatly and a good as new) so the chances of me leaving the lab in them are close to none.

-scolix-

32. Wish you had a pippete while cooking.

-Bungalow Boy-

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