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[rancher hicks]

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My mother - in- law has a cow skeleton, but she's still using it.

Does MIL ever surf the BYC? I like your style.

No she passed away a couple of years ago. The truth about her isn't funny tho. I just like to have fun.

 

[Funky Feathers]

I am a bone collector too. My attic is full of bones I have collected over the years (35 years). And I still want more. Lol!

 

[EweSheep]

Nope, we had to sculp clay with animal bones we find in the woods for fun.

Nothing weird about it!

 

[beak]

Has anyone seen that exhibit called Body Works. It tours museums. Some guy took a bunch of cadavers and removed the skin from different sections of their bodies and did sectionals and stuff. He then encased them in some kind of lucite so they look like somebody standing around with no skin. Cool stuff.

 

[Mahonri]

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No.

That is morbid for the vast majority of people.

I had to do a rotation at Milwaukee County Hospital. I spent a few days in the basement helping to do autopsies. If they were freshly dead, it reminded me of gutting a deer. If they'd been dead for more than two days, they really did stink.

Plus I spent a couple of semesters doing Gross Anatomy freshman year.... key word there is Gross.

 

[beak]

We had that exhibition at the Denver Museum of Science for about 3 weeks. Sold out in advance. It was actually very well done. Evidently morbid but fascinating. Guess people were taken over by that same instinct that everyone seems to have. The one where everyone has to gawk at accidents as they drive by.

 

[warmfuzzies]

I think that cadaver thing is weird, and a little disrespectful. I know that it would be fascinating, but it is still someone's son or daughter, someone's parent... Strange to think about!

 

[19hhbelgian]

I was going to bring up that whole cadaver thing, but didn't need to! There was an auction near where I live a few years back where they had multiple skeletons, and a casket with a skeleton in it. People actually bought these! The guy who bought the casket with skeleton, was going to make it into a coffee table

It's strange to me, but then again, my chicken obsession is quite strange to a lot of other people... Probably including the ones who bought the bodies!

 

[tampitt]

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I missed it when it came though Dallas, I sure wanted to go see. I used to use bones when i did art back in jr college.

 

[Hotttmommi]

Bodiestheexhibit.com excellent website about the tour that has been referenced in this thread. We were lucky enough to go see it this spring when it was in atlanta. Very educational and entertaining in its own way.