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Originally posted by TyphoidDave:
Is someone cloning cats?
When do they start on sabre toothed tigers?
Or even a woolly mammoth?
Now, that would be cool.
Triple post. Bah, the tea thread needs no such gratuitous padding.
Wasn't someone farting about trying to clone mammoths back in the early 'Eighties and nothing came of it? They can get viable genetic material from the deep frozen carcasses that occasionally turn up in crevasses in Siberia and Alaska. (Supposedly the Siberians used to believe that mammoths were some kind of giant mole that caused earthquakes.)
Mammoth joke:
A nightwatchmen at an industrial estate is suprised when a lorry pulls up outside. He is even more surprised when a wooly mammoth leaps out of the back, bulldozes through the fence Godzilla style and cleans out the warehouses.
The following morning he gives his report, which isn't all that helpful. ""What was the truck's registration?""; ""I'm sorry, but my attention was held by the mammoth and I didn't notice.""; ""Well who made it?""; again, that slipped my attention."": ""Did you even notiuce what colour it was?""; ""Um, no.""
The guy's superior gets desperate. ""Okay then, if you were looking at the mammoth, what type of mammoth was it?""
The guy looks puzzled. His boss sighs in irritation. ""Look, they're like elephants, right? There's two sorts of them. Siberian mammoths have big, smooth ears. Alaskan mammoths have small, crinkled ears. What did the ears look like on the mammoth you saw?""
The hapless nightwatchman leaps to his feet with an exclamation. ""Aha!"" he cries. ""
That's why the bloody mammoth was wearing a balaclava!"""
