Suck it! All about pipettes

We hear it time and time again about pipette calibration and the correct use of a pipette, but think about back when there used to be only mouth pipetting. In some countries mouth pipetting is still in practice, and I am sure that some of the old school laboratorians out there probably have a few stories about mouth pipetting! Here is a pretty cool youtube video on mouth pipetting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRVFZJ-VLCc