Sean, Ben, Holly, and Ildi’s Reaction to the Bodies Exhibit at the South Street Seaport, listed with five supelatives:
Most Fascinating: According to Holly, the people’s teeth. Some cadavers had “summer” teeth (summer’ here, summer’ there) while others had nice commercial actor teeth. I thought the circulatory system dyed crimson and suspended in water was also interesting.
Most Disturbing: Smoker’s lungs.
Grossest: Hands down, the uterine tumor with hair and teeth. Honorable mentions go to penis cancer, anything involving my new least favorite word “polyps”, or the back pores on the sectioned obese woman.
Coolest: The isolated spine–looked like a recoiling centipede.
Worst Part: The live people. Way too many, and too many with young children, congested the exhibit. The whole thing felt slightly disrespectful and the poking folks or the woman showing a dead baby to her smiling fat baby made it worse.
All in all, despite the hordes, our foursome gave the exhibit a unanimous thumbs up.
On a side note, do you remember what the vena cava is? What else did you once know that you have since forgot?
If you have ever seen the episode of Saturday Night in which Billy Dee Williams does a fake commercial for a malt liquor called “Coldcock,” you may remember a really weird thing. During the bit, the camera would cut to this Greek chorus of three styled African Americans that would whisper in unison, “Coldcock!” Anyways, that’s the style of how I kept repeating, “Bodies!” during the Bodies Exhibit, long, long after it was entertaining.
UPDATE: From Holly, the original is better.
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Site of the Day: Already a cult hit, Snakes on a Plane.