The "Creativity" of Future Scientists

Not in the field of applied science though. I overheard part of this ingenuous discussion during last week's EXTREMELY boring project day between Scott (group mate), Gary (supervisor), and Steve (lab assistant). (Couldn't get anything done when everyone was fighting over that few miserable PCR machines available, 5 to be exact...)

Anyway, I only heard bits and fragments of their jokes, so didn't really pay attention to it.

Until today, that is...when I saw this paper stuck on the white board in the PhD. lab.

What it says:

Baby, I’m so into genes

There’s more to genome than it first seems

Baby, when you’re over-expressed

I love your protein, from restriction digest

Every time you show your band

My heart is jumping, cos you’re so grand

When you’re amplified, you don’t half appeal

Cos then you’re ready for your LIC anneal

You drive me CAZy

I just can’t sleep

I’m so excited, I’m in too deep

Ohh…CAZy, but it feels alright

Baby, thinking of you keeps me up all night

Tell me, you’re so into me

That I’m the only one you will see

Tell me, I’m not in the blue

That I’m not wasting, my feelings on you

You drive me CAZy

I just can’t sleep

I’m so excited, I’m in too deep

Ohh…CAZy, but it feels alright

Baby, thinking of you keeps me up all night

CAZy, I just can’t sleep

I’m so excited, I’m in too deep

CAZy, but it feels alright

Every Day and Every Night

You drive me CAZy

I just can’t sleep

I’m so excited, I’m in too deep

Ohh…CAZy, but it feels alright

Baby, thinking of you keeps me up all night

You drive me Crazy (You drive me crazy baby)

Ohh…CAZy, But It Feels Alright

Baby thinking of you keeps me up all night

Baby thinking of you keeps me up all night

Looks or sounds familiar? Think again...

Anyway,here's what the PhD. students have to say about us:

OK...

Before anyone of you think we're really out of our minds, our project so far is about molecular biology and that's just pretty much what we did, and we're still doing it. It starts to bore people out after sometime, and I think what Scott did was just another way to "spice up" another stale day in the lab. Hehe...

P/S: CAZy stands for Carbohydrate-Active enZYmes, LIC stands for Ligase Independent Cloning