The dead cow and vets school

[augman7518 (imported)]

The Dead Cow and the Vet School

First-year students at Melbourne Uni Vet school were receiving their first anatomy class, with a real dead cow.

They all gathered around the surgery table with the body covered with a white sheet. The professor started the class by telling them, 'In Veterinary Medicine it is necessary to have two important qualities as a veterinarian: The first is that you not be disgusted by anything involving the animal body.' For an example, the Professor pulled back the sheet, stuck his finger in the butt of the dead cow, withdrew it and stuck his finger in his mouth.

'Go ahead and do the same thing,' he told his students. The students freaked out, hesitated for several minutes, but eventually took turns sticking a finger in the anal opening of the dead cow and sucking on it.

When everyone finished, the Professor looked at them and said, 'The second most important quality is observation. I stuck in my middle finger and sucked on my index finger.' 'Now learn to pay attention. Life's tough, it's even tougher if you're stupid.'

[MacTheWolf (imported)]

LOL I loved it. Thanks augman

[kristoff]

Have heard variants of this one before. Love it as an example. Wouldn't have grossed me out to observe. Got my first exposure to this sort of thing at 10 YO. Neighbor was a medical pathologist - county coroner. He took me in one day to observe an autopsy - fascinating. Then we had our brown bag lunches at the next table just after. I guess I am not phased by this sort of thing. On the other hand, the outhouse scene in "Slumdog Millionaire" about made me puke - for a moment.

[DeaconBlues (imported)]

When I was going through aircrew "land survival training" in the Navy... They took us to the forest where we were to spend a few days living on only what we could find. The instructors where showing us how to make snares, and where to place them, they told us all to look closely in the grass and undergrowth to look for small game trails where rabbits or squirrels and such may regularly go. Then one found some rabbit turds, just little brown balls in a pile, and he pointed out that this was the best sort of evidence that you have game animals in the area, "We call these 'smart pills!' You know why don't you?" There was a long silence, nobody could imagine why you would call rabbit turds "smart pills." So the instructor told us... "It's 'cause after you eat one of them, you'll be smart enough not to do it again!"

Guess I was born smart enough without the benefit of any "smart pills."