Example of Speciation/New Technique for Bouncers

When we initially moved to Texas in 2003, Jeremy shared a house with two fellow incoming biology grad students. These guys were total strangers to one another, and it could have turned out like an episode of the Big Bang Theory. Fortunately, it worked out pretty well. Jeremy eventually married me and moved out but the other guys remained.

Despite the fact that Jeremy and his roommates held "nerd-off" competitions, possessed fuzzy stuffed "animals" shaped to resemble viruses and bacteria (influenza, e-coli, HIV), and have been known to visit sewage treatment plants in pursuit of lab samples, they are all well rounded and personable. Their domicile became known as the "House of Science" and hosted lots of fun parties. Sadly, after five years of fun times, the House of Science is no more. The dwellers are moving on and out and they hosted a big farewell party last night.

The theme for the party was "Lab Formal". What that means, I don't really know.

At about 1:30 am, four very intoxicated fraternity boys showed up and invited themselves into the house. It was at this point I realized how COMPLETELY distinct these young men were from the other party attendees. Their jazzercise shirts and ridiculously loud stupid behavior pretty much stopped everyone in their tracks. Little did they know, they'd just crashed a party full of folks who will be their professors and TAs during the coming school year.

The best part for me was when two of the young men stumbled into the kitchen and asked what we were doing. Party attendees wearing an assortment of lab coats, safety glasses, latex gloves, hazmat suits, a tux, and other formal wear yelled "SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS!" The fraternity boys looked utterly bewildered.

They departed shortly thereafter.