This from Brunhilde:
After 23 years in the prep room, a certain venerable member of staff is pleased to announce that he feels young again since he can still be surprised by the stupidity (is this a fair comment?) of a student.
VMoS (to SS precariously balancing large test-tubes in a small cuvette rack): Careful, that rack is not for test tubes, it's for cuvettes
SS (who can NEVER be wrong): Then why aren't the holes square?
VMoS: Because you can't drill a square hole.
SS: Why not?
Laugh? Until we stopped. And then we started again.
Comments
I'm sure I won't be the only one to point out that you can, in fact, drill a square hole. (See, for example, http://www.englishrussia.com/?p=647)
That said, I don't think such bits are commercially available, nor would they work with a standard drill.
Posted by: Ian | August 22, 2008 12:17 PM
Don't your cuvettes come in boxes with square holes? That's what I use as cuvette rack.
Posted by: Eva | August 22, 2008 01:11 PM
Mine do, yes: but they do things differently elsewhere in the department.
Interesting contraption, Ian. I wonder if it actually works or breaks every third hole?
Posted by: bk | August 22, 2008 01:22 PM