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Alone in the lab...and you get hungry!

By clock on August 14, 2007.

So, you look around to see if there is anything edible!

Of course, it's easy if you work with tasty animals....(just ask the guys in the next door lab who work on lobsters, crayfish and oysters...or wait until you get some brains out of quails and notice the plump breastmeat....just joking).

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