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Yes, now fashionable neckware for both sexes comes in an assortment of unpleasant pathogens, including plague, dust mites, and mad cow disease! Also available in not just 1, but 2 types of breast cancer!
Operators are standing by!
Friday, December 17, 2010
Today's featured gift
Need a tie or scarf for that special person? Neither do I. But if you do, wouldn't you want something like gonorrhea or ebola virus on it? Of course you would!
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Yes, now fashionable neckware for both sexes comes in an assortment of unpleasant pathogens, including plague, dust mites, and mad cow disease! Also available in not just 1, but 2 types of breast cancer!
Operators are standing by!
(click to enlarge)
Yes, now fashionable neckware for both sexes comes in an assortment of unpleasant pathogens, including plague, dust mites, and mad cow disease! Also available in not just 1, but 2 types of breast cancer!
Operators are standing by!
Where do you find these things? They would make great gifts for my classmates or professors. I can see Dr. N sporting the fungi one, and Dr. S sporting the WNV tie. I myself would probably go for the antibody one as I'm a immunology geek at heart. :)
ReplyDeleteHonestly, I think these are great. Not your boring run-of-the-mill tie. Definetly different.
ReplyDeleteOh and I really liked the soaps too. Might just have to order them!!
As a breast cancer survivor, would it be just too twisted of me to get the bc tie or scarf?
ReplyDeleteNah, I think it's cool. Like a souvenir of conquest! I must have some!
Don't see a teratoma amongst them for my husband though (we're 16+ years down the line from a mediastinal teratoma that was the size of a rugby football by the time treatment started - afp was iro 50,000). I wish I could get the soaps for my daughters - a resp nurse and a paramedic!
ReplyDeletewv - inorsof, in awes of these pressies.
I really want at least ONE of these (probably dust mites as its closest to what I did my senior year thesis on)....
ReplyDeleteIt makes sense. I mean, isn't the risk of spreading germs the reason that docs tuck their ties into their shirts or wear bow ties?
ReplyDeleteI think something like mad cow would be approprate for your fav nuro doc eh?
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Some of those scarves would make a great quilt. Need to forward this to Dr. Bates of Suture For A Living....
ReplyDeleteYou found these when you were ordering the brains tie, right?
ReplyDeletehttp://www.a3bs.com/necktie-brain-black-silk-w40042,p_5_423_724_0_4523.html
>:p
I love bright weird ties.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in sales I would get a lot of "I don't remember who I was talking to, but he had a great tie".
I want at least one of these to add to my collection
I love those ties.
ReplyDeleteActually, I have the bubonic plague tie (ordered through Infectious Awareables) and it tends to get a lot of attention because everyone wants to guess what it is. Then when I tell them what it is, everyone insists on washing their hands afterwards! LOL.
Oh! Oh! Oh! I could have a scarf with the plague on it!!!! My favorite disease!! Ahhhhh!
ReplyDeleteObviously, I'm a slight bit excited.
Wicked cool! The infectious Disease man needs the whole set!
ReplyDeleteActually, if there was one with a herpesvirus on it, I totally would buy one for Luca.
ReplyDeleteI think those are fabulous and I know people who would wear them. Can we have the link, please?
ReplyDeleteOkay, here's the link.
ReplyDeleteour infectious disease prof (who is awesome) has a pseudomonas tie. it's great. he has matching suspenders as well. i should email him the link haha
ReplyDeleteSo I go to the tie site and I'm happily scrolling down the page, considering which would be best for the biologists in my life, when--cue record-scratching noise--the next item is an "episiotomy suturing simulator--set of 3!" This thing is realistic enough to be sold in other sorts of catalogs for--oh, never mind. It's just not cricket to put that on the page with the ties, guys. Not cricket at all.
ReplyDeleteLike a lot of your commentors I like these. I don't know if this says more about the type of people who read your blog or yourself, Dr. Grumpy! I think it's us... :-)
ReplyDeleteCan I safely assume that they have run out of bedbug ties? I heard they're real popular this year. How do I get on the waiting list?
ReplyDeleteWell, I like them too! I think I would get the Neurons scarf! So pretty and would definitely be a conversation starter.
ReplyDeleteMy question is this: do the other things really look like that? Like the HIV 1 and HIV 2? They just look too uniform.
wv: sthic ....we're all a little "sick"
Okay, I just checked out the link and I am a little disturbed by their "gift items" section. I hope Santa doesn't bring me any of that this year! (I am not in the medical field, nor do I pretend to be.)
ReplyDeleteGoes along with the Giant Plush Microbes (some of which I want, by the way). I bet some are really pretty and "normal" people might think they're neat looking, until they ask what it is and get all grossed out.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.thinkgeek.com/geektoys/plush/6708/
Okay, so I think they're pretty. But I'm weird anyway. :)
Giant Microbes Rule! I have a set of five around my TV. The Common Cold sat on my desk @ uni for years.
ReplyDeleteI have actually bought some of these for my father for Christmas, and he - a major biology nerd much like myself - adores them. His gifts to me? Giant Microbes. XD
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