The spirit of the season is alive and well...

...the spirit of competition, that is!!! I've said before, when you put a lot of intelligent bored people in the same place at the same time, we turn into puppies and get destructive. To stop this from happening, my dept. has a number of competitions during the year, the last of which is the Xmas Tree Decoration Comp.

The basic rule is that we have to make a Christmas decoration of some sort for the departmental tree, using only things that we have in our labs - animals and body parts not included. Competition is fierce but lately it's come down to mine vs. the lung yab. This years' judge couldn't decide the winner and declared it a draw. Well the Pom (who works in the lung yab) and I are, quite frankly, dissatisfied with that result so I throw it open to the interwebz.

So here we have the exhibits which basically came down to religious interpretation vs. secular.
Piece 1 - The Xmas train

Made from normal and microcentrifuge tubes, boxes, polystyrene, culture plates, foil, and cardboard.

Piece 2 - The Nativity

Made from normal and microcentrifuge tubes, pipettes, pipette tips, culture plates, mesh, cotton buds, bench liners, kimwipes, wire, polystyrene, cardboard, and foil.

poll by twiigs.com

I won't reveal which lab made which piece, vote!