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| | + | ==Where Laboratory Funding Comes From== |
| | + | A congressman wondered if a genetics testing laboratory was worth funding, so he went to the lab, where they recognized him immediately as a leading Democrat with influence over several votes in the House. They greeted him, and he asked them, in words he imagined to be deceiving and sagacious, "If I gave you a sample of my DNA, what could you do with it?" |
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| | + | "We could insert other genes into it," suggested a scientist. |
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| | + | "So you could give me dinosaur traits, like in ''Jurassic Park''?" |
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| | + | "No, only if you were still made of stem cells. But we could glean all of your traits from the information," he diverted. |
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| | + | "Except gender; that's indeterminate," a PR scientist added hastily. |
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| | + | "Very well," he smiled, prepared to prove them lying, "Here's a hair sample. Prove it." |
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| | + | They took the hair sample and told him they needed to use the PCR machine and run some tests, but they'd be back in a few months. |
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| | + | "Oh, no - don't try that. What can you tell me ''now''?" |
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| | + | The scientist shrewdly placed the hair in the PCR machine. |
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| | + | "Hmmm...our machines tell us that you are about 5'11", 44 years old, brown hair, brown eyes, 78% Caucasian, not that it matters, in good health, heartbeat 120 beats per minute, blood pressure 100/70, adroit in political matters, a keen athlete, good reaction time, with an aptitude for science ... is that true?" |
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| | + | "It ''is''," replied the Congressman, amazed. "You may not know it - but I am quite ad-what, or whatever you said, in political matters. I'm a Congressman, and this work you do is so amazing, I'll have to vote in favor of funding this lab." |
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| | ==Conservative Riddles and Puzzles== | | ==Conservative Riddles and Puzzles== |