a few prawns short of a galaxy (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} piperrhiannon) wrote in ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} thrifthorror,@ 2009-07-03 13:45:00 |
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You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and then you have...
This book is one of those things that gets the same reaction from every single person I tell about it. "Pics or it doesn't exist."
Well, I've been meaning to take pics for years now, and finally got around to it. I saw this at a used bookstore in the science section. The title caught my eye for the sheer childishness of it and I thought it might be one of those books to help well-meaning parents through that awkward day when Jilly asks if babies REALLY shoot out of her pee hole or what.
Y'all, it was so much better. I'm pretty sure it's not actually for children (possibly for adults with questionable taste), but it's a picture book. Better than that, it's a pop-up books. A very scientifically written, adult oriented pop-up book - the text is more sophisticated than my high school biology textbook's.
I know what you're thinking. The answer is yes. Exactly what you think will pop up at some point does indeed pop up.
May I present, for your approval, The Facts of Life:
Possibly not safe for work. I'm really not sure.
There's the fetus. Er, "foetus." There's also a little flip thingy about chromosomes:
Moving along to possibly the best page in the whole book:
boi-oi-oi-oi-oiiing! I really should've taken this picture from a better angle. You really don't fully grasp the hilarity of the pop-out boner from this one. But I'm no longer in the same vicinity as the book, so this'll have to do.
So now we know how a fetus develops. But you might be wondering WHERE it develops:
The little pull tab on the side moves the egg through the fallopian tube!
If I knew how to make animated GIFs, I would have. But you can guess how it goes. I bet now you're wondering what happens to turn that egg into a fetus! Er, "foetus." Wonder no more:
Tadpoles! Wait, no. Sperm. Sperm meets the egg, and this happens:
And we end at the last stage of fetal development, where the little guy is ready to make his wet, bloody, naked debut:
There we go. I have pics, so it did happen. It wasn't a store that liked to give exceptional deals - you generally paid half the jacket price, so this thing cost me fifteen dollars. Totally worth every penny.
This book is one of those things that gets the same reaction from every single person I tell about it. "Pics or it doesn't exist."
Well, I've been meaning to take pics for years now, and finally got around to it. I saw this at a used bookstore in the science section. The title caught my eye for the sheer childishness of it and I thought it might be one of those books to help well-meaning parents through that awkward day when Jilly asks if babies REALLY shoot out of her pee hole or what.
Y'all, it was so much better. I'm pretty sure it's not actually for children (possibly for adults with questionable taste), but it's a picture book. Better than that, it's a pop-up books. A very scientifically written, adult oriented pop-up book - the text is more sophisticated than my high school biology textbook's.
I know what you're thinking. The answer is yes. Exactly what you think will pop up at some point does indeed pop up.
May I present, for your approval, The Facts of Life:
Possibly not safe for work. I'm really not sure.
There's the fetus. Er, "foetus." There's also a little flip thingy about chromosomes:
Moving along to possibly the best page in the whole book:
boi-oi-oi-oi-oiiing! I really should've taken this picture from a better angle. You really don't fully grasp the hilarity of the pop-out boner from this one. But I'm no longer in the same vicinity as the book, so this'll have to do.
So now we know how a fetus develops. But you might be wondering WHERE it develops:
The little pull tab on the side moves the egg through the fallopian tube!
If I knew how to make animated GIFs, I would have. But you can guess how it goes. I bet now you're wondering what happens to turn that egg into a fetus! Er, "foetus." Wonder no more:
Tadpoles! Wait, no. Sperm. Sperm meets the egg, and this happens:
And we end at the last stage of fetal development, where the little guy is ready to make his wet, bloody, naked debut:
There we go. I have pics, so it did happen. It wasn't a store that liked to give exceptional deals - you generally paid half the jacket price, so this thing cost me fifteen dollars. Totally worth every penny.
