An example of what academics do to blow off steam:
This is a detail of a long whiteboard hanging in the basement hallway near my research lab. Sometime this fall, a colleague divided part of the board into a grid, and wrote "Sheep drawing contest! Rules: Draw a sheep" at the top. Students and other faculty did the rest (this image includes three of my own contributions-- see if you can guess which ones).
Since this was taken, the department technician has added first, second, and third-place prize ribbons on magnets, so people can judge the drawings. We're easily amused.
More pictures below the fold:
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# 1 | Kate Nepveu | January 11, 2008 9:44 AM
High-res versions!
# 2 | Chad Orzel | January 11, 2008 9:55 AM
Oh, fine. These are all 300-600 K:
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I'm going to have to fish this comment out of my own spam filter, I know it...
# 3 | Hawk | January 11, 2008 10:54 AM
*laugh* These are great!
# 4 | Silmarillion | January 11, 2008 11:01 AM
LOL. Brilliant! Those made my day.
# 5 | Jamie Bowden | January 11, 2008 11:12 AM
I don't see a spherical sheep of uniform density in there...should I assume one?
# 6 | Brian | January 11, 2008 12:16 PM
I need to know who started this, since I know your colleagues..
# 7 | Ron | January 11, 2008 12:25 PM
How about thirty sheep on the back of a motorcycle in an inverted t formation? http://www.imiracle.co.kr/shopping/contentsimg/screenshot3_sheep.jpg
# 8 | Nick | January 11, 2008 12:34 PM
Battle Sheep FTW!
# 9 | Luna_the_cat | January 11, 2008 1:15 PM
I particularly like the "Vampire sheep looking in a mirror". That particular sheep is so perfectly drawn.
I wanna know how a vampire that doesn't have upper front teeth is gonna cope, though.
# 10 | Dennis | January 11, 2008 1:53 PM
#5 - Jamie beat me to the punchline - I was thinking the exact same thing...
# 11 | Dennis | January 11, 2008 1:57 PM
Correction - it is there! In the third photo, top row, about 1/4 way from the left hand edge...
# 12 | Opiwan | January 11, 2008 2:12 PM
No sheep with cow horns?
"Bull Sheep"
BWAAAAAAAHAHAHAHA! Is it time to go home yet?
# 13 | john | January 11, 2008 5:12 PM
It's kind of an inside joke for anyone who has lived in Central America. I just about fell out of my chair when I saw "Bah... pues."
# 14 | Kurt Montandon | January 12, 2008 1:33 AM
I don't see a scholar-sheep ... but I'm going to assume there is one.
And a sheep wreck.
# 15 | Jim | January 12, 2008 5:51 PM
Perhaps you drew: 'A physics graduate sheep', 'Para Sheepium', and 'Village Sheeple'?
And you were thinking of drawing a MSM viewing, black box voting 'sheep', but thought better.
# 16 | Zoltan Blum | January 14, 2008 8:38 AM
I couldn't spot Schrödinger's sheep, but perhaps the two(?) representations of the equation will suffice
# 17 | Eli | January 26, 2008 6:28 PM
Very funny. I had an assignment for a folklore class I took in college which involved drawing cows, and all of mine were spherical.
http://lanseybrothers.blogspot.com/2007/06/spherical-cows.html