Thursday, January 25, 2007

i'll tax your dermy!



I've had the most fascinating ongoing conversation at work over the past few days.

It all started when Emma, the girl who types out price tags said, 'You know *insert name here* who used to work for us in VM (that's people who do the displays, for non-retail people)? She's working for a taxidermist now.'

Yes. Fascinating career paths obviously spring from mundane retail jobs.

It was really quite interesting to hear Emma go on about how the taxidermist makes a cast of
*insert creature here* then skins, freezes, lacquers and puts it all back together.

Then I got to thinking, 'Given that the process of taxidermy is the same across the board, what's in biggest / smallest / weirdest / hardest /most digusting thing you could preserve?'

Emma and I continued the conversation across the office yelling out random words like, "Panda!" or "Camel - especially the two-humped ones".

It got a bit ridiculous when it got to "A taxi complete with a taxi driver!"

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