Here is the deceptively cheery front:
Anyone who has read my Science Scouts post knows how I feel about the dolphins. Well, it seems they feel the same way:
Fine. It's on then. I know one thing, you smiling bastards! You aren't so smart on land! Just try to take me! Come on, you know where I live!
Oh, crap. Something just occurred to me. The writing on the post card was surprisingly legible... That means... OH NO!!!
(Thanks to she who has yet to choose a 'nym. I'll call her S. for now. Maybe she'll comment?)
[Dangit! I was trying to schedule this for tomorrow, but it didn't work. Oh, well.]
8 comments:
See... I didn't get that one either !! :'(
:p
This one is based on an old joke amongst marine scientists. It seems like every time a member of the public finds out you're a marine scientist, they get a happy look and clap their hands and ask you if you study dolphins.
They are usually very disappointed to learn that, no, I study marine bacteria. Once this happens enough you start to hate dolphins. That's how I earned the "I became a marine scientist, but I still kinda fu**ing hate dolphins" badge in the Science Scouts post.
A friend sent me this post card "from the dolphins" to let me know they hate me too.
The Science Scouts thing is a parody of the Boy Scouts who actually earn little patches when they learn certain things or finish certain tasks, like building a camp fire or hiking 50 miles and such things.
Of course, once a joke is explained, it's not funny any more, but hopefully now you know what's going on.
I can't say that my time in grad school for marine biology gave me a hatred of the fins.
I did not even hate them when I was elbow deep in stinking dead ones trying to find and remove a stomach.
Since my PI was the dolphin guy at my school my lab had all the hot chicks.
I also got to swim with manatees a bunch of times.
Well, sure. See, you were one of the 0.05% of marine scientists that ever works with dolphins. It's the rest of that have to deal with that question (delivered with anime-like glassy-eyed hopeful joy) "do you study dolphins?" and get the crushed indifference when they learn that I don't.
It's like there is nothing in the ocean except the charismatic megafauna. *shakes tiny fist*
Gosh! So sorry to hear about all the apparent hate developing among the Order Cetacea. You would think they would be overjoyed to have the dumb- ass people living on the Earth's crust assume that all scientists of one specific discipline ONLY study them! Mmmmm, they've been rumored to have exceptional brains and communications skills. I wonder if a mermaid helped them write that postcard. Bitch.
Indeed, it must have been a real bitch that wrote that.
;-P
At least you are still a marine biologist.
I have long since turned into a lab bound microbiologist.
Well, I am mostly a lab bound microbiologist, too. Just everything I study comes from the sea.
Every now and then I still get into the field, though. Which is nice.
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