Syndrome Syndrome (no relation to Palindrome) has been an "active" member of the lab since a fated meal at an unnamed, ubiquitous fast-food restaurant chain in which he appeared at the bottom of an equally unnamed, ubiquitous lab member's "snappy" meal. He has come to represent the best humor the Opp Lab has to offer. He is readily passed to the author of any funny remark made during lab meeting. The holder at the end of lab meeting is then asked to discharge his/her duty as the Best-Witted Opp Labster by winding up and releasing the trophy and the meeting.

Mr. Incredible When Syndrome threatened to take over our lab meetings with everyone's witticisms aimed at his acquisition, Mr. Incredible stepped in and brought the focus back to accomplishment. Now the labsters are encouraged to tell the group when they've done something "incredible" that's worthy of their procuring Mr. Incredible for the meeting. Some may say success is its own reward. Those people have never had their success rewarded with a molded plastic action hero!

Dreidel When you're funny, you're funny, but when you're not, the dreidel's what you've got. See how that rhymes? See how if you have to explain your attempt at humor it isn't funny? That's where the dreidel comes in. It was inevitable that, in a lab that rewards comic behavior, there would be some jokes that would fall flat, especially when that lab is headed by "The Danny." Instead of sounding the dutiful groan to a terrible pun or a premature punchline, we simply acknowledge the attempt and hand the dreidel over. It's a reminder to the bearer that if they can't be more amusing than a cut-throat game of dreidel then they shant speaketh.

The Hippopotamus Hippopotami -- they just appear out of nowhere! The Opp Lab was once baffled by these mysterious creatures' spontaneous appearances upon dry erase surfaces. Resistance proved futile, thus full acceptance became the way forward. The appearance of a hippopotamus is now regarded as a good omen, bringing good fortune to all in its presence. To many, the hippopotamus represents the Opp Lab, as its unofficial mascot. As such, we felt it important to learn the ways of the hippo, by mimicking its form (click here to learn how to mimic it's form) and by creating our own personalized versions of this glorious beast (click here to view lab members' personalized versions of the hippo).

Gourd Carving The Opp Lab celebrates the Fall and Halloween with a pumpkin carving party. However, leaving Danny (and Debbie) in charge of bringing the pumpkins can only lead to one thing: gourd carvng. And thus a member of the Cucurbitaceae family has become an honorary Oppster! (Click here to view gourd carving photos.)

Piņata It is unclear what the relationship between the Opp Lab and the Piņata is. All that can be known for certain is that whatever their relationship was before Siete de Mayo (the semi-famous Mexican celebration of the Saturday following Cinco de Mayo), it has been infinitely worse since. Police reports indicate that on that day various members of the Oppenheimer "gang" donned brightly colored bandannas, which they used to cover their eyes while blugeoning the already hanged Piņata with a stick. Then, in a truly horrifying turn of events, they picked up Piņata's scattered entrails and began to eat them.