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Rule #282: Stop dressing up the skeleton models in Sickbay and the Science Labs.
"Nurse Chapel!"
Christine Chapel shook her head. Even though it was a quiet day in Sickbay, Dr. McCoy had yelled her name eight times so far. And this time he did not sound amused (not that he did the last seven times).
"Yes, Doctor?" she said, walking into the lab room.
McCoy turned around. "What is this supposed to be?" he asked. He waved his hand at the old human skeleton model hanging in the corner. She wasn't exactly sure why McCoy insisted on having the thing, perhaps he wanted a literal "skeleton in the closet". Or maybe it was to remind him of being an "Ol' country doctor", the kind that always had a skeleton hanging somewhere in their office.
She couldn't help but smile, though she knew the med techs who decorated the skeleton were going to regret doing so very soon. "It is supposed to be you, Leonard, in a top hat. His name is Not-Bones."
"Not-Bones? Since when did this thing have a name?"
"Since you never gave it one. And it's better than 'That-weird-old-skeleton-Doctor-McCoy-keeps-over-there'. Someone wanted to call him Akhmed for some reason."
McCoy looked back at the skeleton, which was dressed in his blue medical smock, black uniform pants, and a random top hat. He shrugged. "Well, that explains where my shirt went."
Chapel nodded. "Did you see the one in Science Lab 10?"
"No," McCoy replied. "Why?"
She smiled. "It has pointed ears."
Dr. McCoy was out the door in under nine seconds (a personal record). He almost crashed head first into Spock, who was making his way to Sickbay. There were small repercussions from the creation of Not-Bones, mostly for the theft of Dr. McCoy's medical smock, but Not-Bones found a loving home in Sickbay; though it took the combined power of Captain Kirk, the rest of the senior officers, and all of the medical staff to convince McCoy the top hat looked better on the skeleton than it did on him.