10.   Instead of getting a real job, we just study people who do

 9.   Anthropologist do it in the field and in the lab

 8.  We have a legitimate reasons for having brains and skulls in our carry-on luggage

 7.   We’ll date any old thing

 6.   T-shirts with holes and dirty shorts are perfectly good work attire

 5.   We can trace our family tree back several million years

 4.   Getting paid to play in the dirt is infinitely better than working in a cubicle

 3.   To contemplate the golden ages of humanity while living in abject poverty

 2.   We can party it up with the locals and call it ‘participant observation’

 1.   Anthropologists live on the edge!... of normal society