before my re-lapse to academia
I used to head up the purification department of a small biotherapeutics start-up. Our major candidate on our portfolio was a drug for endemetriosis (look it up if you're male) and I was once sat with my direct boss (head of manufacturing or some such title) in a meeting with a load of venture capitalists trying to blag some more funding. One of them asked how we were planning to administer the drug to keep the dose sensible, and I said we were in the process of developing a two-way tampon, but that in the short term we'd probably use a liquid formulation and vaginal douche.

Whereupon my boss looked surprised (he wasn't really into the drug delivery side of things) and turned to me and said "really, how does that work? do we turn them upside-down and pour it in?"

Genius. How he successfully bred I'll never know. We didn't get any funding out of that meeting. Strangely.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 18 Jun 2009, 13:39, 2 replies)

You lost it because he didn't know how to use a douche?
With enemas like that, who needs friends?
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 9:36, closed)

*takes a run-up*
*spangs back to the stone age*
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Fri 19 Jun 2009, 11:56, closed)