Awesome sentence that was uttered to me in conversation today

[luzula]

"My boyfriend got mad at me when I skeletonized a dead cat on the stove in our apartment!"

I guess we all have our geeky interests. *g*

Comments

[brigantine]

Heeee! That is the BEST!

I suppose skeletonizing might be better done out in the garage, but what if one doesn't have a garage? So then what's a science-minded girl gonna do, eh?

[seascribble]

What an over reaction from the boyfriend, honestly.

[luzula]

I know, right? *g*

She was an archaeologist and osteologist whom I quickly bonded with over geeky biology stuff. *g*

[luzula]

I know, right? : P

(She was an archaeologist and osteologist whom I quickly bonded with over geeky biology stuff. *g*)

[calvinahobbes]

Have you heard about Krummerne!? It's a Danish children's movie from ages ago, and in it the protag's cooler friend is introduced as someone who boils a dead cat to get the bones. It made a considerable impression on tiny 5-year-old me.

[luzula]

No, I haven't! A favorable or non-favorable impression? : )

[calvinahobbes]

Well, as a young cat owner myself I was quite horrified. I think it took me many years to understand that the cat was already dead and he probably just found it! :D (I wouldn't want anyone to boil my dead pet, though, then or now.)

[jesse_the_k]

Now what I don't understand is why your friend isn't equipped with the Osteologists' Home Tool Kit, which includes gentle acids to eat away at flesh followed by gentle bases so the bones are still there.

Great phrase.

[lilysea]

Yeah, I'd be super mad too, mainly because the resulting smells would give me a bad migraine and bad nausea.

[oneiriad]

Hey, look - another person's whose first immediate thought was "Krummerne"!

If the skeletonizing was anything like that scene, I think I'd have been mad too.

[calvinahobbes]

Okay, I had to look. Of course youtube provides: Krummerne - Katten.

[luzula]

Oh, I'm sure she was using the right chemicals and stuff. But the boyfriend was still not pleased...

[luzula]

Oh, it's not that I can't see the boyfriend's side of it--I was just amused at the whole thing. : )

[feroxargentea]

Was it a particularly interesting cat?
*curious*

[luzula]

Sorry, she didn't say! But she did say that now she had access to the natural history museum's back rooms so she could use them for this kind of thing and didn't need to do it at home... : )

[eve_n_furter]

That entails slow simmering (~60°C) in water with biological solvent. I have done it with whale parts. I had to explain the smell to guests for three months afterwards.

[luzula]

Yes, she explained the process to me! She was an archaeologist and osteologist whom I quickly bonded with over geeky biology stuff. *g*

So why did you do this to whale parts? : )

[eve_n_furter]

Because a whale stranded in my garden during a storm (I was living on Sommarøy outside Tromsø). We helped the Coastal guard get the whale (a 15 meter long spermwhale male, dead of old age - they come here to die, basically) back out to sea again and got the jaw bones and teeth in return. I have the jaw bones on display in my garden today. They are about three meters long. It was a lot of fun, but the smell was special, to say the least.

[luzula]

Wow, that is a cool garden ornament!