I am taking a forensic anthropology class, and since I missed Thursday’s class due to all of the cardiology activity going on that day, I had to stay late last night to make up a lab worksheet on the bones/plates that make up the skull.
While JB and I were driving back to Covington, we chatted a bit about the class.
Me: …and I can’t remember anything about what the cheekbones are called, except that it starts with a Z.
JB, excitedly: Xylophones!
Me: Um. Except…that starts with an X.
JB: …It sure enough does, doesn’t it.
I still can’t remember what the damned bones are called, but now I won’t be able to look at the molds in class without having the urge to hit them with mallets.
Zygomas, right? Because I massage the zygomatic arch. I may be wrong, though…
Okay, Zygomatic Bones, then. I looked it up.
Yep! Got them correct in a quiz last night, too. Woo!
Yes they’re the Zygomatics! *ding* *ding* *ding* Christina for the win!!
w00t! Forensic Anthropology FTW!
AS soon as I read “xylophones” I got the “Patrick Moore plays the xylophones” song stuck in my head, and I hadn’t heard it for years. Thanks!
You’re welcome…hahaha!
You weren’t too far off base. Bones, including skulls, made popular xylophones in fact & fiction. Frankie of the Groovie Ghoulies played one. IRL, there’s this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1BcR9woukQ
I was expecting to see a real person playing real skulls as xylophones. :-( You got my hopes up, dude. BOO!
I mind an interesting gal I used to know, a former neighbor who was a big influence on my eventually arming myself. (she approved of that)
She took a forensic anthropology course, and said that the prof said the only really sure way to get away with murder was to push somebody out of an airplane over the middle of the ocean, and then have the brass balls to keep a complete poker face when (not) talking to the cops afterwards.
She was a Mississippi woman, thus both heart-breakingly good-looking and also dangerous. I would not get into an airplane with her, I don’t think, not without taking precautions.