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They'll have to be going pretty fast through that ring then. |
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Oh, they're *very* slippery customers indeed. They'll go so fast that it's likely you'll never actually see one of them, unless you catch some of them asleep in their cryosuspension tanks at the lab. |
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So, whataya gonna use the snake oil for? |
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// So, whataya gonna use the snake oil for? // |
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Think about it. I'm surprised *you* would need to ask. |
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I have carefully thought, for an entire beer. |
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I've come to the conclusion, that while I didn't need to ask, I stupidly did. Now, having laid bare my ignorance of the commercial uses of genuine snake oil (snakes? snakes? no snakes here mate - too cold) and having started on yet another beer, I'm gonna need some help. Animal, vegetable or mineral? |
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We're going to sell it off, to fund further research into genetic modification of foodstuffs and useful critters. |
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Need your scones to be lighter and fluffier? Just splice in a gene from a baby duckling. |
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Cattle drowning in floods? Pop in a gene from a Copper River salmon, to add extraordinary swimming capabilities. |
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UB, please delete my inanity if I've gotten this wrong, but if I'm right, perhaps I can help drew out. |
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I think Mr. Bubba's idea is a rather less-than-direct way of comparing the "promise" of genetic modification to the empty promises of the proverbial snake oil mongers of lore. The value of the circuitous route is the satisfaction one derives from having completed it without getting lost. |
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If I'm right, it's really just an elaborate pun. Not that I'm complaining; I love elaborate puns. I did (or tried to do) something like it with Lawn Guy Land. The problem with something like this, though, is that if you get a tepid response (as I did) it can be hard to know whether you need to be less subtle so people will understand that it's a pun, or if you just need to come up with less lame puns. |
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I got the snake oil part, but didn't connect it directly with GM because I thought the GM referred to the snake. |
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Anyway, why the rant? You don't believe in GM? What is GM? Is this a religous issue? Ethical? Moral? Are you beginning an early campaign for the annual referendum on the ban of GM ideas? |
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[phoenix], Wouldn't that qualify as a 'ban all people who do X' then? |
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UB? Religious issue? You haven't spent much time talking with the man then... |
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All clear now. Many thanks. I wasn't expecting a rant, so I thought I'd missed something deeper. |
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FWIW, I'm not convinced about these dark arts either. |
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Ask the journalists who don't understand the practical limitations of GM. They'll print anything you tell them, if it sounds exciting. |
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What this world really lacks is a good chimaera. |
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Pal of mine has a TVR Chimera. That's pretty damn fine... |
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Oy! Next thing you know they'll be trying to tell us they've put a man on the moon. |
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nah, we did that last week. Came to the conclusion that it was just the french trying to make Australia looking bigger than it actually is. |
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Don't mention the French. The bastards have been testing their fucking nukes in our backyard for the last 50 years. |
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GM? OK, but not *that* way, please. |
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As opposed to the British, who tested their nukes *in* Australia. |
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Yeah, well... we don't talk about that anymore. Not since we elected a Prime Minister who hopes one day to shed his toadying ways and become a prince. If only he could get a queen, any queen, to pay him some attention. |
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