Vaseline on the telephone earpiece is better than Vaseline on a doorknob. The best histo-oriented April fools joke is to fill a slide basket with blank slides. Go around your lab with another rack, like you are collecting slides to make a full rack to be stained. What a nice person! Be sure to get some prostate, kidney or other small, irreplaceable biopsies. Do the quick switch with the blank slide basket and "accidentally" drop the blank slide basket on the floor. Be sure to smash as many as possible. Then, "April Fool!". As a victim of this prank, I can guarantee that when a histotech hears a whole basket of slides hit the floor, they will not be thinking it is an April Fool's day joke. It is a sound that freezes the blood.
You're welcome, Jay A. Lundgren, M.S., HTL (ASCP) _______________________________________________ Histonet mailing list Histonet@lists.utsouthwestern.edu http://lists.utsouthwestern.edu/mailman/listinfo/histonet
