Cloning and much of a muchness

Eric and Wallace are having a drink on the balcony.

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Eric: Today I met a charming young lady and paid her 900 for an hour's work. You can guess her profession.

Wallace: Charming young lady and 900 for an hour's work? Hmm. (a) a lawyer (b) a doctor (c) bank teller (d) reality show star. Hmm, good exam question.

Eric: If only it were only an exam question. But I kid you not. The price was painfully real.

Wallace: Joking aside, this sounds like your doctor. Had your burned leg turned to septicemia?

Eric: No, it was the fee to the process the condo title.

Wallace: Now, if you were a cat...

Eric: Which thank heavens I'm not...

Wallace: As I was saying, if you were a cat, your owner would take care of all the vet bills, the rent and legal fees.

Eric: I am not a cat.

Wallace: The medical fees you rack up make me think it'd be cheaper to register yourself as a cat.

Eric: Maybe it's be cheaper for me to clone myself then harvest the other me for body parts.

Wallace: Grow a clone of yourself? How do you plan on doing that? Pull a rib out of your side and water it? Ha!

Eric: They've done it in North Korea. Or is it just that everyone looks the same there?

Wallace: Hmm. Is it culturally insensitive to describe the denizens of Great Leader's country as all being much of a muchness?

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Dolly

Why was Dolly called Dolly?

You have to ask?

The mop of woolly hair that made her look like Dolly Parton?

Actually, no. It was other attributes of Dolly Parton’s anatomy.

You mean…?

Yes. Dolly the sheep was cloned from mammary cells taken from the udder of a six-year old sheep.

When was it she died?

2003. February. Aged six. Most sheep live to 11 to 12 years in a sheltered environment, which she was in.

She died cause she was a clone?

They don’t know. Cause of death a progressive lung disease, common among sheep, particularly the farm where she came from. She seemed to be aging quicker than normal sheep but some researchers suggested this could be because her donor was already six years old when genetic material used to breed Dolly was extracted.
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