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Old 01-13-2011, 03:17 PM
 
Location: Inis Fada
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After dissecting crustaceans and learning the location of the intestine and rectum, it was a very long time before I could eat lobster again.
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Old 01-13-2011, 03:23 PM
 
Location: Inis Fada
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Oh, BLECH! Have you ever seen an owl deliver one?

The voices on this had me rolling.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waLiTmLr1nM

"What'd he do, spew it up?"
I'd sooner the neoave pellet over the feline fur ball, anyday.
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Old 01-13-2011, 04:04 PM
 
Location: Copiague, NY
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I bet all the Indian, chinese,Japanese, and Mexican kids are still dissecting frogs in their countries. Oh boy are we in big trouble.
In those countries, cats are the order of the day and thus, it isn't called biology, it's called cusine.
I also believe that the people of those countries are more concerned with dissecting our economy, than cutting up frogs.
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Old 01-13-2011, 07:00 PM
 
Location: Little Babylon
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Down here most kids dissect critters using either their dad's F-150 or their brother's 1999 Trans-Camaro.
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Old 01-13-2011, 07:57 PM
 
Location: Nassau, Long Island, NY
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lol...the kid is a little slacker. What he "learned" was that if he cries enough about something he won't have to do it.

He's in for a rude awakening someday.
Would you rather he turned out to be a Jeffrey Dahmer? (Jeff dissected many an animal during his childhood.)
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Old 01-13-2011, 08:50 PM
 
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The kid provided the school with a chance to cut a expense. How much do dissecting critters cost?
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Old 01-13-2011, 09:01 PM
 
Location: Little Babylon
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Dissection down here.
How to Skin Your Deer. How to Cut a Deer Instructions. (http://www.best-venison.com/skinning-your-deer.html - broken link)
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Old 04-27-2011, 08:26 AM
 
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this is why Long Island is falling behind...One freak doesn't want to follow the rules so the administration jumps through hoops to ban the procedure. There was a day when non conformists just accepted their F's and moved along down the highway of fail...now they are taking everyone with them. It's too late to grow a pair:

Boy, 9, gets school to ban frog dissection


Nine-year-old Gabriel Cruz dreaded his school's fourth-grade frog dissection since learning about it last year from his older brother.
He told his teacher at the private [URL="http://www.newsday.com/topics/Ivy_League"]Ivy League[/URL] School in Smithtown that he wouldn't participate.
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[URL="http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/boy-9-gets-school-to-ban-frog-dissection-1.2602631"]Boy, 9, gets school to ban frog dissection[/URL]
Here's why he doesn't have to participate

http://www.nysba.org/Content/NavigationMenu45/HumaneEducation/LettertoNewsdayEditor.pdf (broken link)
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Old 04-27-2011, 10:12 AM
 
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In the 50s in Locust Valley middle school the science teacher let us coat coins with mercury
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