X-Message-Number: 7809 Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 20:36:55 -0500 From: Garret Smyth <> Subject: Cloning Pets I missed the original post on this, but congratulations to whoever sent it in: > Hmm. A business opportunity, albeit far-fetched, does occur to me; while > cloning humans seems to be fairly pointless, cloning pets might be > something that would attract customers, as much of a pet's personality > is either innate or may be reproduced by its cohabitation with its owner. > I'm not certain about a business name - perhaps "Pining for the Fjords" :-) There aren't many real belly laughs on cryonet, but "Pining for the Fjords" should certainly be put in the archives. Just as John Cleese (real name: John Cheese - I kid you not) is hyping his new movie too, in which the baddy is signed up for cryonics but dies from major head injury which cuts down his chances. Cryonics trivia - a few years ago (the summer of '94) Mike Price and I met Cleese backstage after a TV show. Cleese would have been working on the script of "Fierce Creatures" then, so if you hated the movie, blame us. Cleese said that he had met a cryonicist on British TV back in the '60s - he wasn't sure of the name of the person, but he thought it was Robert Ettinger (so blame him too!). I didn't know that Bob had been over here - I'd love to hear the story. But back to the Fijords. I can see it now, the Parrot Sketch (cloned version): SFX: shop door bell rings. SHOPKEEPER: Can I help you sir? CUSTOMER: I wish to complain about this dead parrot, wot I purchased not one century ago from this very boutique. SHOPKEEPER: Wot's wrong with 'in sir? CUSTOMER: He's alive! SHOPKEEPER: No sir, its animatronics. CUSTOMER: He's an un-dead parrot. He's climbed the stairway to heaven, and come back down again. He's bleedin' shuffled back onto this mortal coil. He is a parrot once more. He's left the choir fantastic and started squawkin' loudly on his own. SHOPKEEPER: No I assure you sir, he's dead. He's a zombie. Often happens with Norweigan Blues. CUSTOMER: [To Parrot...] 'Ello Mr Dolly Parrot! Here we must leave our chums, but tune in next week for the cloned cheese shop sketch and Election Special featuring John Major and his cloned silly party. TTFN Garret Rate This Message: http://www.cryonet.org/cgi-bin/rate.cgi?msg=7809