The wits over at the Science Creative Quarterly — a science-humor publication that started up back in 2005 — have posted a funny parody: A version of the Boy Scouts for scientists. The official name is the “Order of the Science Scouts of Exemplary Repute and Above Average Physique”, and they have a truly hilarious list of badges. I went down the list and figured out which badges I qualified for, and listed them above. They are:

The “talking science” badge: “Assumes the recipient conducts himself/herself in such a manner as to talk science whenever he/she gets the chance.”

The “MacGyver” badge: “In which the recipient has demonstrated that his/her science communciation prowess was handy in simplifying a potentially challenging scenario.” Among other things, I frequently draw up equations to add ludicrous levels of precision to otherwise mundane tasks.

The “I blog about science” badge: Self evident.

The “inordinately fond of invertebrate” badge: “In which the recipient professes an arguably unhealthy affinity for things of this category.”

Go check out the rest of the list! I wonder if there’s any sort of Cafe Press-like operation online that could actually physically make copies of these badges on an a la carte basis? I would so totally order those four.

(Thanks to Debbie for this one!)