Between now and midnight Sunday, we will pun about the origin and descent with modification of species.
Prizes will be awarded for: - most original - most obscure - funniest - biggest groaner
and whatever else we can think of to make everyone feel good about participating.
And I'll kick it off with a little song:
♪Oh...there's a genome where Drosophila roams Where the genes and mutations all play...♫
♪Where seldom you'll feel The recessive allele, but the flies have white eyes anyway♫
♪Clones, clones in the lab...♫
Well, I think I've crossed a boundary here. Of course, it could just be that church just let out, which would be kind of a mass extinction. So, you think this is dumb? Well I'd like to see you genus' come up with anything better!
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Oh, and I'm kind of divided on repeating yourself. Unless you're making a pun about self-replication, no cloning.
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Well, being a genus, I am convergent in the basics of the theory, with a descent understanding of the vocabulary. Consequently, I am well equipped to counter the species arguments of the haploid idiots.
That reminds me of a story. A man walks into a bar, clade only in a pair of genes. The bartender says, “Hey phyla, eustele trying to coelom in here without a shirt?”
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Bob, you know, the sad thing isn't that I had to explain that to my 13-year-old son, but that I had to explain it to my husband, living proof that Darwin was wrong.
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Actually, Kayla, it's just that some of us are more evolved than others.
I think everyone is misunderstanding the purpose of this thread. Amino, what you can't just type a mutated word. You must recombine words to form new varieties. Try being specific too.
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Dag, this isn't about evolution, but here is an example of a whole lot of puns.
quote: The Pillsbury Doughboy died yesterday of a yeast-infection and complications from repeated pokes in the belly. He was 71. Doughboy was buried in a lightly greased coffin. Dozens of celebrities turned out to pay their respects, including Mrs. Butterworth, Hungry Jack, the California Raisins, Betty Crocker, the Hostess Twinkies, and Captain Crunch. [pun]The gravesite was piled high with flours[/pun]. Aunt Jemima delivered the eulogy and lovingly described Doughboy as a man who never knew how much he was [pun] kneaded[/pun]. Doughboy [pun]rose quickly[/pun] in show business, but his later life was filled with [pun]turnovers[/pun]. (You get the idea.) He was not considered a very 'smart' cookie, wasting much of his dough on half-baked schemes. Despite being a little flaky at times he still, as a crusty old man, was considered a roll model for millions. Doughboy is survived by his wife, Play Dough; two children, John Dough and Jane Dough; plus they had one in the oven. He is also survived by his elderly father!
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Yes, I know what a pun is. I'm just wondering why the one's in my first post wouldn't qualify - am I missing one of the rules of this particular pun-off?
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I have an iron-clade argument against everything you've said here. I do have to say, though, that fallow and Dagonee are a base pair of posters.
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I'd like to think that those of us with more evolved sensibilities would stop acting like apes and believing in such primordial theories, but alas, creationism is still treated as if it is at the bottom of the slime pool containing the speculations on man's rise.
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OK, Bob, I couldn't tell - it was late, there'd been a little wine, the rest of the sordid details write themselves...
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Don't think it qualifies as a pun exactly, but it was darn funny and I'll try to buy some time with it while I think of evolution puns.
I was describing my research (on proteins associated with neurodegenerative diseases like alzheimer's, BSE, cruetzfeld-jakob, etc) to a friend and commented that the closest homolog of human prion protein is "doppel", a sperm protein. Moreover, there seems to be some link between these other dementia-related proteins and testicular or sperm proteins.
my friend replied, "So should I worry about getting ballzheimers?"
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I knew it! Cases of male stupidity can be attributed to guys thinking with their reproductive organs...
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I'm a poli-sci major, so all this witty scientific puns are all Greek to me. I guess something is lost in transcription. Posts: 1592 | Registered: May 2000
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I'm suprised no-one has yet made a pun on the mechanism of evolution itself. It'd seem to be the natural selection.
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Random? Nah. This thread seems pretty anti-entropic to me. By the way, does the winner get the Darwin award?
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Bob, I think people are adapting quite well to this thread, but your puns are definitely dominant. It is your area of specialization, for sure.
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Ouch! I think I've hit a dead end. I wanted to post the url to a website of bad evolution puns, but every time I hit "Add Reply" I look and the thing is gone. It's the missing link.
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I'm terrible at puns and I know relatively little about evolution so I'm not even going to try, but on my travels I discovered a cartoon I thought was funny...
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This might not be strictly on topic since evolution depends on fertilization but my aren't we a lively crew of cunning linguists.
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I think my hatrack family has taken divergent paths. If you have any more puns like this, I respectfully suggest you phylum. Might want to put them in order first. That would show a little class.
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