The Old One-Two Punch (Line)
Today's news brings us the bizarre story that scientists at Wood's Hole Oceanographic Institute, funded by a $270,000 government grant, are developing fish that can catch themselves. I'm not making this up. In a twist on Pavlov, Black Sea bass are being genetically bred to swim into a net when an underwater whistle is blown. In a related story, administration officials have announced that none of the prisoners at Guantanamo Bay were actually captured, but rather checked in by themselves when they heard a recording of George Bush singing I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts.
posted by John M Crowther @ 7:40 AM
6 Comments:
(((chuckles))) I'd pay serious money to hear that!
Neat cartoon John... love the chickens crossing the road!
If the chicken in the middle is Edmund Hillary, which one then is Tenzing?
"Which one is Tenzing?"
The one with the most stress.
LOL. Not shown. He's be the one carrying Sir Edmund.
Until now I've never in my adult life wanted to live in LA. Well, my best friend is out there so that would be nice, but I digress. However if I did, I'd be going to all the Huntington High lacrosse matches on the off chance I'd get to hang around with you. Lovely bunch of coconuts indeed! I too saw the self-catching fish story and found it somehow apalling. Our whole food industry is sick enough as it is, and while that doesn't mean I don't eat meat, genetically engineerinng fish suicide seems way over the top. On a poultry note, I remember a story several years back that domestic turkeys no longer know how to mate because they haven't done it for generations and generations. I only wish we could genetically engineer the radical right to do the same!
As always thanks for the laugh1
As an aside, isn't Woods Hole also reputed to have government ties, and weren't they rumored to be the source of covert governmental bio-weapon research resulting in Connecticut's own Lyme Disease?
Just fish food for thought...........
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