I had a brief stint at the Smithsonian conservation analytical laboratory. We were studying the feasibility of extracting ancient dna from Peruvian mummies (yes

I had a brief stint at the Smithsonian conservation analytical laboratory. We were studying the feasibility of extracting ancient dna from Peruvian mummies (yes, it is possible). My boss was joking about one of her competitors/colleagues at another university, a professor that collected barf bags. She turned the news on one day only to see him on (probably cnn?) for having the largest barf bag collection in the world. This was way back when fame wasn’t the ultimate goal and some things could actually hurt your image.