Winner
All of his kids were test-tube babies… by Larry ShadeHonorable Mentions
"I think my virtual lab idea still needs work." by James S. Perilli
"This is my boss’ reponse when I said “It’s virtually impossible to monitor every experiment." by Dave Switzer
"Well Cynthia, Mr. Beaker claims they are family portraits, so what can we do?" by George M. Hudak
Other Submissions
"I asked for screen shots of hazardous chemicals. I didn't realize the intern was so literal." by Lynn Winfield
"Designer drugs come in too many colors and shapes." by Ralph Sager
"So, what do you think? We can view the chemical reactions without putting ourselves in harm’s way." by Pam Starrett
"Virtual processing will never take the place of good old R&D." by Fred A. Coon
"Those IT guys are soooooo funny. I asked for extra monitors and pan and zoom cameras to monitor the process." by George M. Hudak
"They even replaced the mouse with a lab RAT!" by Jatin Shah
"His next step will be to move the lab to "the cloud"... hope he also stays there!" by Raul Sabadi
"I know we make synthetic drugs, but this is ridiculous!" by Joe Davis
"I don’t think the FDA Auditor will accept this when asked to see our processes." by Joe Davis
"Never again will I request different samples of wallpaper for my pc from IT." by Joe Davis
"HA HA, very funny. I come in ONE DAY with a hang-over, complaining about seeing double and no one let’s you forget about it." by Joe Davis
"I don’t get it Debbie, this is supposed to work because the computer said it would." by Lawrence Riccio
"I said organize the inventory, not digitize it!" by Kent Jones
"IT’s at it again… and they used my report for a chair mat!" by Bryan Holt
"The safety department said I needed a monitor for each of our work stations." by Fred Durrenberger
"We haven’t seen the lab tech since he started the virtual product testing." by John Opiola
"It used to be one analyst per each experiment!!" by JESUS EMILIO VELAZQUEZ Y MARTINEZ
"We may have to summit an MSDS on the vanishing cream-It seems to work! Bob hasn’t been seen for days." by John Alford