Note, this is written after a 24 hr shift, and is meant as a satirical commentary on Sleep Deprivation and not an Endorsement of Dissecting Rats or Cramming Human Skulls into Christmas Stockings.Whats harder to get in todays America than a straight answer out of Barak (Peace be upon Him) Obama???
Whats this World comin too when I can order Vietnamese/Mexican Fusion delivery (In Georgia!!) at 2am but can't find a decent Scientific Supply store on Al Gores entire Information Super Highway????
And don't tell me about Carolina Biological Supply... I've been a CBS customer since the late 60's when I dissected my first Rat.
Needed a Dissecting Manual, had plenty of Rats already, although my Mom's Cat "Tommy" got pissed when I'd steal em...
Anyway, it all started when Daughter #2 was admiring the Human Skull I have sitting on my Desk next to my Little League trophy from 1974(Yeah, its one of those "Everyone gets a Trophy Trophies" so blow me) and thats the cool thing about Real Human Skulls, they all have a story, because how else do you end up on some guys desk next to a Little League Trophy and what happened to the other 184 bones?? (give or take a Sesamoid or 2)??? "Curly's " got a story, too bad he's a skull and can't talk. Cue the Flashback Music.....
December 24th, 1972, Dad was still over in Vietnam droppin Napalm on the Gooks, I mean flying B-52 Deltas, when me and my sister got to open our traditional Christmas Eve Presents... Thats right, a Drackman Family Tradition shared by only about 80 million other American Families, and yeah, we celebrated Christmas, eventhough my Mom was Jewish, cause my Dad was Baptist, and anyway, you ever try findin a Menorah in friggin South Dakota??? You'd have better luck findin a Human Skull, which is what I found in my Christmas Stocking...
OK, it would have been cooler, if Dad had brought home a Human Skull, that he'd had hidden up his Ass while he was held prisoner in the Hanoi Hilton, like that "Gold Watch"scene from Pulp Fiction, but hey, lifes not a Movie, except for that one time in 1987, and that was more like a Porno movie ...
Well, sort of Under my Christmas Stocking, its sort of hard to fit a Human Skull IN a Christmas Stocking, which you'd know, if you ever tried fitting a Human Skull in a Christmas Stocking, but a Regular Human Stocking will go over a Human Skull just fine, but I'm getting ahead of myself...
Thats right, instead of the usual Silly Putty, or the joke "Snake in a Jar" that I still fall for to this day, I was the proud owner of a Real Human Skull, and you can tell a Real Human Skull from one of those Fake Human Skulls, because of the chunks of flesh, I mean Muscular Insertions and if you do a DNA Polymerase Chain Reaction on a Fake Human Skull you'll find out its Parents were a bowl of Plaster of Paris...
And where did my Mom get a Real Human Skull? You might ask...How the hell do I know, Santa Claus brought him, heck the North Pole was just a few counties away...
And it was a few years later, I mean a few years ago, when Mom told me the truth about Santa Claus, and that "Curly" wasn't really made by little Elves with a penchant for grave robbing...
She got him from some weathered and grizzled GP who was retiring from practice because of the shitty reimbursements from that New Fangled Medicare, and cause he was 87 years old.
OK, I'd like to think Mom won him in some late night Poker game instead of using her feminine charms on some old geezer.
Me and "Curly" have been through a lot in the last 36 years, including a contentious 6th Grade Show and Tell which resulted in a little Home Schooling, and 8 weeks in a Mobile Pawnshop when I was a little down on my luck in the 80's.. and you ain't seen nuthin till your down on a muffin, oops, wrong 80's flashback...
So I told Daughter #2, she's gotta Earn her skull like I did, respect it, and not just use him as a cheap prop for Show and Tell...
Hmm. Home Schooling would free up about $35K though....
Mr. Curly, I think you might be gettin a transfer....






