The gig’s up!

Skulls found in man’s apartment | Chicago Tribune

Uh-oh. I seriously hope the authorities aren’t going to start confiscating skulls, because I have one too. And yes, I boiled mine on my stove. That’s what you do to get a skull clean, respectable and Yorick-esque. If you’re lucky, the ear ossicles will fall out in the process, and you’ll have a delicate little malleus, incus, and stapes – perhaps even two sets.

I suppose law enforcement has to check out a report of a guy boiling skulls on his stove. But between anatomy students, medical illustrators, artists, anatomy professors, doctors, and nostalgic former Hamlets, there must be a LOT of old human skulls in private hands. Is this even news?

It might be news if the skull was studded with diamonds, and worth fifty million pounds. (Apparently Damien Hirst is a bigger joker than Yorick.)