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In response to "the funny thing is, there aren't enough dead people to give the first lab full-time work. -- nm" by loosilu

No, they stay pretty busy over at the Jeffersonian. nm -- nm

Posted by Jim (aka Jim) Feb 14 '11, 13:14

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they must be planting their own skeletons. -- nm - loosilu Feb 14, 13:14 28
- Well, they actually have jobs aside from helping the FBI. The lab and the staff were there before they began helping the Feds. - Jim Feb 14, 13:17 16
  - Jobs doing what? -- nm - loosilu Feb 14, 13:17 15
    - Doing whatever anthropologists do. All I know is it usually involves a table full of 500 year old bones or something. -- nm - Jim Feb 14, 13:19
    - The Jeffersonian has a huge backlog of anthropological material to work through -- nm - Beryllium Feb 14, 13:18 13
      - like what? can't be Native American, that was all repatriated. - loosilu Feb 14, 13:20 11
        
        In the room where they have the bones on the table for X-rays and such, there's an entire wall with tupperware boxes of bones -- nm - Beryllium Feb 14, 13:21
        
        Well, she is the foremost expert in her field. She does travel the world doing anthropological stuff. -- nm - Jim Feb 14, 13:20 9
        
        that stuff lives in museums and universities. - loosilu Feb 14, 13:22 7
        
        uh, I think the Jeffersonian Institute is also a museum. As evidenced by some of the museum-like events they've had. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 14, 13:23 4
        
        Exactly. Apparently, the Smithsonian won't let them use the name...so it's the Jeffersonian on the show. - Jim Feb 14, 13:24 3
        
        well, a Smithsonian with private funding -- nm - Beryllium Feb 14, 13:25
        
        the Smithsonian is, as far as I know, the only place remotely analogous, so that makes sense. - loosilu Feb 14, 13:25 1
        
        You mean tv shows are exactly like real life? - pmb Feb 14, 13:43
        
        Well she is employed by the "Jeffersonian"...which is essentially the Smithsonian. I think that's a museum. -- nm - Jim Feb 14, 13:23 1
        
        OIC. fair enuff. I have not watched it much, clearly. - loosilu Feb 14, 13:24
        
        Maybe we should just get loosi to email Kathy Reichs and ask ... :) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 14, 13:21
      - (They have shown "the vault" a few times) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 14, 13:19
- (yeah yeah, I know. Suspension of disbelief. Just goes too far for me to enjoy the show) -- nm - loosilu Feb 14, 13:15 9
  - but NCIS works for you. (titter.) -- nm - amanda jones Feb 14, 13:23 5
    - sure. it's totally unrealistic, but it's not my world, so I don't care. -- nm - loosilu Feb 14, 13:23 4
      - I completely understand. :) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 14, 13:24 3
        
        and I don't mean for anything I say to take away anyone's enjoyment. -- nm - loosilu Feb 14, 13:27 2
        
        (you just mean to say it over and over again? (I';m just pointing it out. you could say it and then walk.)) -- nm - amanda jones Feb 14, 13:37
        
        We're just trying to convince you to like it, because we enjoy it so much. But I understand exactly where you're coming from. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 14, 13:34
  - I prefer to take a multiverse approach to shows like that, and just assume they are set in a universe that works differently than ours :) -- nm - Beryllium Feb 14, 13:16 2
    - I can do that sometimes, but not in this case, for whatever reason. -- nm - loosilu Feb 14, 13:17 1
      - It hits too close to home, like me and Big Bang Theory. Well, that and the irksome canned laughter. -- nm - Beryllium Feb 14, 13:18
- Maybe. -- nm - Zach si Feb 14, 13:15

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