Cloning Is Not for Amateurs

Meet a "salmelon." One of the creatures that result "When Cloning Goes Bad." Somebody (I can't figure out who) has deftly created about 30 of these odd things which appear in a slide show that will blow my mind, maybe yours too. Go to
Bad Clones to see the show. (Oh, and in case you care, there's another one of these figments at the bottom of this piece. And it's down there at the bottom even if you DON'T care.)

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More borrowing: My buddy The Ozguru told me this true story.

Mujibar wants to enter the country but is stopped by an Immigration Officer.

"You need to pass a test before you can enter the U.S.ofA.," says the official.

"OK," says Mujibar, "test I'm."

Immigration: "I want you to use yellow, pink and green in one sentence."

Mujibar (thinks, brightens): "Oh, yes. Here: The telephone goes green, green, green, and I pink it up, and I say, 'Yellow?'."

(Afterword: Mujibar is now living in your neighborhood and working at the Microsoft help desk.)

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The other day when I was writing about high school gangs I forget to remind you that diseases also got gangs. About the time I was pushing over privies my Mom's Mom had pulmonary failure and was dying of cancer some disease. Mom told me not to use the "C" word because it was some kind of nasty disease good people weren't supposed to get. This was in the early 1940's. Today, now, you got people almost braggin' about having sexually transmitted disease the AIDS.

Anyway, these diseases can really gang up on you -- strep throat, pneumonia, hepatitis and rigor mortis is a frequent combination, I guess.

Kind of reminds me of the old saying: "And now abideth Faith, Hope, and Love, but the greatest of these is Worms."

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My favorite word today is husband. N., Mr. Fixit. Def.: The person whose amateur plumbing technique has left air in the pipes so they will make that satisfying "clunk" when the water is turned off.

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And here is your basic orangufrog: