Lab manners/profanity
Tuesday, January 31st, 2006Being a sensitive sort, easily offended by some of the rougher language used in the lab when experiments don’t work, I instituted a “curse jar” about a year ago.
The Rules: A slip of the lip and it costs you 25 cents. The litmus test is if you can’t (shouldn’t) say it in front of my kids you pay. Four obscenities for a dollar-no bulk discounts. The first year we paid for lunch and beers at El Corral (a favorite Mexican restaurant). After a fast and expensive start the lab language has cleaned up considerably and at the present snail’s pace we’ll be lucky to collect enough coins to buy a bottle of cheap red wine and a box of Little Debbie Swiss Cake Rolls by the end of the year.
PS: Lyrics don’t count as long as you don’t sing along.
