I do have to share an amusing materails engineering story. Years ago, I was working on a project for a company that made prosthetics. I came up with an idea that would make them some money. truely out of the box thinking. Basically it was a fake breast that was filled with silicone gel. Inside the fake breast was an irregular shaped mass. The idea was that the fake breast with a mass in it could be used as a teaching aid to help woman identify irregular masses as an early warning sign of cancer. I came up with the idea when my wife had a mass (benign thank God).

I had to make some prototypes prior to pitching the idea to the company. First things first I had to make a mold. I needed a breast to make a mold from to which I could then make a prototype from. I asked my wife and she was game. I made a top open box and duct taped it to her naked breast. I then poured Plaster of Paris into the top of the mold. As the mold hardened we watched Jeopardy. When it got to Double Jeopardy she started complaining that the plaster was getting real hot. We didn't make it to the next commerical and she was howlering at me to get the ******** thing off her.

Imagine this if you will, a 5' little red head, wearing shorts and half a breast with a box duct taped to her. The other breast bare to the wind, her screaming at me as I'm guessing the answers of double jeopardy faster than lighting! (I was on a roll - couldn't stop!), I start trying to rip the tape then I just sart pulling it off. Some of the tape has skin on it, she can't feel it compared to the cooking of her t!tty. I finally get the mold off her - her breast looks like well boiled lobster but a perfect mold if I say so myself. needless to say, I didn't enjoy those fun bags for a few weeks!

I made the prototypes - interesting when the GM had some VPs toured the lab - 6 samples of a perfect C cup of a 34 breast lay in wait. The project was a success thanks to my wifes openmindedness and ample "before kids" breasts. But the lesson here is Plaster of Paris curing is an exo-thermic reaction!

Hey Mike, how long ago did you make your creation?

If it was in the 80s then I got to sort of feel your wife up in my high school health class. ;)

:D great story, Mike.

I did some design work for the guy who invented "Resuscitation Annie" (the CPR dummy). Though the project I was on was for teaching doc's how to fly an endoscope, lower GI.

So we needed a "model" (wink-wink) for butt-dummy. So, a trip to the local strip-club was needed to find the right butt-model.

Got her back to the shop, she stripped (quicker than I expected --stripper, eh) up on the table she goes. . .positioned on her side, butt slightly prone . . . .start applying the plaster-strips. And it dawns on me . . I go and get a chunk of Delrin Rod . . . bring it back, and start explaining. . "uh, yeah. . .uhm . .. we're going to have to have a certain point on your anatomy . . uhm .. "located" . . .
she snaps "so you want to shove that thing up my. . :eek:" . .. softly sez; "okay"

Who says good help is hard to find? :D

Oh, plaster goes on in thin strips. . . .to keep the exotherms at a minimum. . . .next time;)

So what the kids should take away from all this is?...become an engineer and you date hot chicks who later become SI models, marry a hot chick with nice yum yums, invent stuff using yum yums, play with stripers who have nice poopers, pee yourself while thinking outside the box...get free dinner...:D And people thought we only like naked women who offer us their bikes :D

that about somes it up - and just think, I bet you all never thaught it would be that good during Org Chem, diffy Q's or thermo? And they teased us for being geeks...