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More badges have been added. Number #48 has written ME all over:
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Before coming to the States and getting into grad school in Zoology, I was in vet school and I spent endless hours with my arm up to the shoulder inside horses' recta (and sometimes cows') both treating sick ones and doing some experiments in excercise physiology (that's horses, not cows). Later, I probed the quail rectally (really, cloacally) on a number of occasions. I am a sicko!

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I decided not to award myself this badge because I'd only plumbed equine reproductive tracts (and only two of those, anyway).

But I still covet it.