Weird things... — Page 2

#26

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Posted: 7/28/04 at 11:59pm

Oh that stuff is potent! I had my locker in the Bio lab hallway for a year when I was in HS and it was awful, your whole body stunk just being in that hallway.

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#27

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Posted: 7/29/04 at 12:02am

I got out of disecting a fetal pig by acting nauseous and pretending to vomit.
Oh the wonders of performing...

#28

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Posted: 7/29/04 at 12:06am

yay for acting skills

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You aren't feeling overwhelmed are you?

#29

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Posted: 7/29/04 at 12:44am

oh gawd...this thread just brought back memories of college. Took a human anatomy class, and it sure wasn't frogs and fetal pigs we were working with. The first few classes were VERY hard to get through.

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#30

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Posted: 7/29/04 at 1:20am

I've dissected a raw chicken wing in 8th grade science...

The teacher who taught that class also brought in a cow's heart and kept it in the refrigerator of the nurse.

I also used to dissect the "owl puke." In fact, I did so in 10th grade biology.

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#31

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Posted: 7/29/04 at 7:23am

In spain we don't dissect anything at school!
That's VERY disgusting!!!!!!!!!!!!

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#32

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Posted: 7/29/04 at 9:12am

disecting isn't disgusting...it's educational.

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#33

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Posted: 7/29/04 at 9:21am

There are many many documentals, books, references in the world... w e don't need to kill animals to teach children.

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#34

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Posted: 7/29/04 at 9:25am

I could never stand dissecting. I would always fake sick (although usually I wasn't faking) to get out of it. But I remember doing the frog, fetal pig, grasshopper (those friggin huge amazon grasshoppers), rat, mink, and fish.
My housemates are in biology at university, and they've started on cadavers. Just thinking of that makes me want to go shiver in a corner.

#35

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Posted: 7/29/04 at 11:43am

I read a book about cadavers that was really interesting. It sounds knda gross but it's really informative.

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#36

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Posted: 7/29/04 at 12:24pm

The medical school here just had it's bicentennial.
In the old days, the students couldn't afford cadavers so they would go dig them up.
How's THAT for morally wrong?!

#37

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Posted: 7/29/04 at 1:59pm

My high school used to have a morticians' school in it, so there used to be freezers where they kept the cadavers. That room is a math classroom now.

And seeing how half my friends intend to go to med school, I'll probably be hearing plenty of fun human dissection stories in a few years.

#38

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Posted: 7/29/04 at 2:16pm

I did the grasshopper, worm, cow eye, and frog. In other classes at my high school, they did the fetal pig and cats. I guess they have changed things from cats to minks nowadays.

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#39

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Posted: 7/29/04 at 2:37pm

We used minks left over from fur farms at my college. They would have been thrown out otherwise.

#40

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Posted: 7/29/04 at 2:53pm

whenever you guys write "mink" it makes me think that all you're disecting is a piece of fur...like a mink coat or something.

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#41

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Posted: 7/29/04 at 3:09pm

Did you know that after you die your hair and fingernails coninue to grow?...

...but you get fewer phone calls.