Just a quick post, meant to be fun, not to insult anyone. Because we can all use a little laugh in times of stress.

How stockphoto companies think that #Coronavirus lab tests look like. I especially like the ones with the #Scrabble letters. #LabStockPhotoFail

Here are the results from another round of “Caption Contest” on Twitter with a slightly inaccurate lab stock photo, two days ago. Here is the photo that I posted (from 123RF.com):

It was hard to choose – there were many great ones. The audience favorites were: 

And my favorites were:

Here are all the tweets with the #YellowRack hashtag. There might have been more, but my notification stream is too complicated to find them.

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Laboratory stock photo websites are so funny to browse through. You give a bunch of nice looking gals and guys some white coats, gloves and safety goggles, and put them in a laboratory, and let them play with some pipettes, microscopes, petridishes and colored water. What could possibly go wrong?

Well, turns out, a lot. Here is part 2 of some laboratory photo fails that I found on the Fotolia.com websites.

“Pasteur turns around in his grave”, Fotolia.com

The same model can also pipet without a pipetman, Fotolia.com

This women might have a built-in vacuum line in her thumb (123RF)

Two scientists with microscopic vision (Shutterstock)

Eleven out of 12 ain’t bad (123rf.com)

Pipetting straight into the rack, Shutterstock

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