December 23, 2004

Excuse me, but didn't your cat die? We’re one step closer to cloning monkeys: Introducing (or rather, re-introducing) Little Nicky. If you really really really love your pet, try Genetic Savings and Clone. Makes a great stocking stuffer.

Hell of a great name for a company too.

posted by Name That Itch 20 years ago
  • it's so sad that these people don't see the death of a pet as an opportunity to experience another pet with its own unique and wonderful qualities. how the heck did we get to this point? as my friend bruce always says, "that's just fucked."
  • Ethics aside, I think I'd have emotional/mental difficulties in terms of accepting the existence of my "new" pet. All it would take is one sideways glance from that cat and I'd freak...
  • You cannot step twice into the same river. --att. Heraclitus
  • precisely, bees
  • "how the heck did we get to this point?" please see: the whole of fuckin' human history. "as my friend bruce always says, 'that's just fucked.'" Your friend Bruce is, how you say, very wise. I wonder if he has a newsletter, perhaps, that I may subscribe unto? Anyway, whatever this stupid idiot who bought the clone says, you cannot clone a personality. Fact. Irrefutable. Insofar as the genetics of the animal make it more likely to be, say, playful, happy, affectionate, etc, that is as far as it goes. If you do not bring up the clone in the same way the clone parent was brought up, it will be a totally different animal. In the same way that, most times (if parents let them), genetically idential twins turn out to be quite different in temperement. They may be similar in lots of ways, but they will be substantially different as individual human beings, in all the ways that really count (ask their wives). One of my online friends is an actor, a voluble fellow, a joker. He has been in many plays, a few commercials, he is a standup commedian. His identical twin brother has no interest in such pursuits, & is quite introverted. I think he's a bank teller or something, & completely uninterested in dancing around dressed as a donut on a stage somewhere. Clones will NEVER be the same as the original. That's it. Get used to it. A cloned Nostrildamus may have the same tendency to fiery flares of aggression, but he most likely won't have the fucked up abusive childhood that the clone father did, so he might be mellower. He could be artistic, or autistic, or ADHD, but not in the same mix as the original. (God forbid they ever clone me. Or quidnunc) Fuck. Stupid people are most irritating when they misinterpret sceince. I mean science.
  • If science would only stop whoring itself to the ignora....eh forget it.
  • If science would only stop whoring itself to the iguanas.
  • THE IGUANAS! THINK OF THE IGUANAS!
  • No, see, anyone who's read/watched Pet Sematary knows that's just wrong. Scary and wrong. Bad. Scary. Wrong.
  • THINK OF THE IGUANAS! Only if they come with Salsa verde.
  • Iguanas? You people are qwazy.
  • Whatever happened to freeze drying the ol'furpuss for a doorstop?
  • Just this evening there was this scrawny cat I don't own sitting outside my door about to be frozen into a doorstop... and being christmas I brought it in and gave it sardines (valiantly scammed from my landlord). Totally off-topic, I know, but I just wanted to share. The cat is soo cute, I may just have to keep it.
  • If the universe presents you with a critter right before xmas, you have to keep it. Them's the rules. /wishing a critter would show up on my doorstep
  • "Anyway, whatever this stupid idiot who bought the clone says, you cannot clone a personality. Fact. Irrefutable." Oh, yeah? Then explain wingnuts.