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The 5 Current Genetic Experiments Most Likely to Destroy Humanity

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Jellyfish-Monkeys

Good lord, what is it?
When your children ask you how the Jellyfish Apes came to be your masters, you can put on your best wizened old-man voice and tell them "it all began in the year 2000," which, in addition to being true, will also lend your tale a nice, distinct science fiction sound. Yes, it all began at the Oregon Regional Primate Research Center in November of the year 2000. Scientists modified a harmless virus with jellyfish genes and introduced it into the embryos of Rhesus monkeys, which sure beat the old-fashioned way of making a Jellyfish Monkey--furiously masturbating a jellyfish directly over a spread eagle monkey.

For the love of god, why are they doing this?
The researchers hoped to make the monkey glow. Seriously, that's it. The researchers justify continuation of these experiments with a lot of fancy talk about tracking the genetic markers and learning how to create stable, transgenic monkeys for future experiments. But, in the end we all know that, like us, they really only wanted to throw decadent and hilarious monkey raves.

The researchers, who we assume are the esteemed Professors Cheech and Chong, were operating under the somewhat controversial thesis that "if ... if monkeys like, glowed, man? That'd be fuckin' crazy!"

So far, though, all of these experiments have only resulted in one actual monkey with glowing hair and fingernails which was, sadly, stillborn. Researchers chalked this up mostly to the excess of fluorescent protein produced by the dead monkey, and only a little bit to the great and furious anger of an Old Testament God hurling ominous omens at them like the dodge balls they were also bad at avoiding in middle school.

What's going to happen to us?
To give the researchers credit, a glowing monkey would be almost twice as hilarious as a normal monkey, but unfortunately the first experiment failed and the first surviving monkey does not actually glow. Perhaps more unfortunately, he is also now part jellyfish, an animal as notorious for its gelatinous skeleton as it is for its painful, sometimes lethal stings.

Combine this with the highly intelligent nature of the typical primate, its superhuman strength and agility and complete lack of higher human emotions such as guilt, pity or regret and you've got a remorseless screeching, shit-flinging, venom-tentacled, unearthly monsters with no bones to break. Oh, and thanks to inept scientists, it won't even glow in the dark so that you might see them coming for you through the fucking trees.

Isn't there something familiar about the combination of monkeys and jellyfish? We don't mean to fear-monger, here, but the image of a primal, yet vaguely human form prone to translucence and glowing and outfitted with wet, flailing tentacles just sounds too familiar to us.



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Fabulous ... now I can't rid myself of the image of spider goats leaving messages containing our exact location in their webs for the zombie pigs to read. Thanks. *hides*

Posted on 10/18/2008 4:16:21 PM

That last one made me laugh and laugh and laugh... very well worded!

Oh, and the mice and rats caught and carried the plague from lice, and it became more dangerous after growing in human streets and sewers, hugely filthy at the time. The rats were innocent, more or less, as long as people clean up after themselves and don't litter we'll be fine.

Oh.... s**t.

Posted on 10/18/2008 4:31:49 AM

I wanna know who crossed a dick and a sea anemononomomonome (sic?) [#4]

Posted on 10/13/2008 8:18:02 PM

I can't believe the third one didn't even mention the cow-people from Diablo II.

Posted on 10/8/2008 3:30:31 PM

it was the black rat that spread the plague

Posted on 9/19/2008 9:51:54 AM

aren't cow people called fat chicks? *gets the crap beaten outta her*

Posted on 9/18/2008 1:54:21 PM

forget spider pig SPIDERGOAT SPIDERGOAT DOES WATEVER A SPIDERGOAT DOES

Posted on 9/4/2008 8:47:20 PM

If the cow-people look like this, I'll be happy: http://eng.dlsite.com/work/=/product_id/RE024261.html

Posted on 8/31/2008 7:48:06 PM

a goddamn spider goat.

Posted on 8/30/2008 11:30:36 PM

"Oh, and thanks to inept scientists, it won't even glow in the dark so that you might see them coming for you through the f*****g trees."

I nearly killed myself laughing.

Posted on 8/30/2008 6:37:41 PM

Scientists have already created glow-in-the-dark mice.

Anyway, the "supermice" are not field mice. They are fancy mice (that is, the kind that people keep as pets and feed to snakes). Even when it refers to them as "Wild Type", that is a type of fancy mouse. Not that it makes it any less interesting, but it does set aside the worries about disease ridden super-field-mice. ;-) Fancies aren't disease-ridden any more than your dog is disease-ridden.

Posted on 8/30/2008 2:43:18 PM

To the gang bashing the scientists because you fail to see the point of their experiments: It is seldom the resulting animal that is the final goal of genetic testing. So even though you see no immediate need for glowing kittens, the experiment can teach us something valuable. And glowing kittens are cool. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hlynpvqMfaAdSttDgyTDWydW_5OQD8U2EEKG0

Posted on 8/30/2008 12:51:21 PM

"doesn't mean I'm a pervert, it's more like having Pig-AIDS."

That is a classy ass line

Posted on 8/29/2008 6:43:50 PM

YOU'VE SEEN IT! YOU CAN'T
UNSEE IT! RUN IN FEAR FROM-
THE SPIDER GOAT!

Posted on 8/29/2008 6:26:33 PM

just don't give the cow people axes or we'll hafta deal w/ the secret section in Diablo 2 all over again.

Posted on 8/28/2008 9:50:51 PM

Must run hide from spider goat!

Posted on 8/28/2008 7:54:57 AM

I think I go hide under my bed now and pray the spider-goat kills me before the mice-munching cannibal supermen decide to have me for dinner.

Posted on 8/28/2008 5:32:58 AM

Okay, so we can create spider-goats. Next: SpiderMAN! along with Michael Phelps- Aquaman, and Usain BOLT- The Flash, I know that, pending the soon-to come versions that are powered by your chestlight and can fly, the Ironman suit is possible. Superheroes, unite!

Posted on 8/28/2008 12:40:35 AM

The Plague killed 1/3 of all Europe, who thought churches are immune to any and all diseases.

Posted on 8/28/2008 12:33:52 AM

"Mice literally decimated Europe"
Surely they killed off more than %10 of the people!

Posted on 8/27/2008 6:19:27 PM

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