BS: APP incensed over gorilla article!

Subject: RE: BS: APP incensed over gorilla article!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 27 Sep 10 - 07:44 AM

It's disturbing to see Chongo "aping" all that outrage over this matter, because I know he's probably faking it, and just trying to score political points. My little buddy is being slowly and insidiously corrupted by the political process! It can only get worse as he ascends to the hallowed halls of power...

Subject: RE: BS: APP incensed over gorilla article!
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Sep 10 - 09:32 PM

Yeah, it's called Anopheles.

Subject: RE: BS: APP incensed over gorilla article!
From: Joe Offer
Date: 26 Sep 10 - 08:38 PM

Is there an app for that?

Subject: RE: BS: APP incensed over gorilla article!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Sep 10 - 08:04 PM

Chongo is really excited about this spurious "science" attack on gorillas. He says it's easily worth a 10-point gain in the polls for the APP, and he intends to milk it for every drop it's got. He has become a true political animal.

Subject: RE: BS: APP incensed over gorilla article!
From: Rapparee
Date: 26 Sep 10 - 07:27 PM

Five species of the plasmodium parasite can infect humans: the most serious forms of the disease are caused by Plasmodium falciparum. Malaria caused by Plasmodium vivax, Plasmodium ovale and Plasmodium malariae causes milder disease in humans that is not generally fatal. A fifth species, Plasmodium knowlesi, is a zoonosis that causes malaria in macaques but can also infect humans.

Alas, poor plasmodium! I knew him, Horatio. Chlorquinine has borne me to the latrine as thousand times, or so it seemed at the time.

Subject: RE: BS: APP incensed over gorilla article!
From: gnu
Date: 26 Sep 10 - 05:12 PM

AIDS was, ah, no, may have been developed at a lab in Massachusetts as a biological weapon. I have no proof. It's an urban myth. It never happened. Apparently, people so ugly that they couldn't get laid screwed monkeys and told their good looking friends that screwing monkeys was fucking great and they went apeshit and... yeah, right.

Conspiracy theory? Well, I haven't the time or the inclination to ferret any of it out. All I offer is... "How many monkey fuckers does it take to infect MILLIONS of people worldwide?"

BTW... many years ago, a buddy of mine asked me... "If a skeeter bit me and I had AIDS (this was reported as possible in the news here back then) and then it bit you, what would happen?" I replied, "First, I would kill the skeeter and then you."

Subject: RE: BS: APP incensed over gorilla article!
From: Amos
Date: 26 Sep 10 - 04:45 PM

I believe it was first developed somewhere in the simian side of the primate groups but it may have been transmitted by non-sexual means.


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Subject: RE: BS: APP incensed over gorilla article!
From: Amergin
Date: 26 Sep 10 - 04:37 PM

I know people who think that AIDS was passed to humans by screwing a monkey.

Subject: RE: BS: APP incensed over gorilla article!
From: Gurney
Date: 26 Sep 10 - 04:14 PM

And here I always thought Malaria came from mosquitos!
If I see any Gorillas flying around my bedroom, I'm going to dust off the shotgun.

Oh. Wait a moment. Doesn't it come from a germ that infests innocent Mosquitos, who are just trying to propogate their kind?

But then, the germ is just trying to propogate, too.




I knew sex would be at the bottom of it, if Chongo was at the top!

Subject: BS: APP incensed over gorilla article!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 26 Sep 10 - 06:44 AM

The American Primate Party (APP) is very upset over this article, which says that malaria was passed on from gorillas to humans thousands of years ago. Apes across the nation are enraged over this suggestion, and mass demonstrations are planned to protest the article and contest its findings.

I spoke to Chongo about it "off the record", and he was a bit circumspect in his comments. I get the impression he thinks it might actually be true, but he has no intention of just throwing away this grand opportunity to raise a little hell and gain some political capital out of what stands to be a very hot issue with apes and monkeys. He plans to issue a statement shortly condemning the article as "specism of the most despicable sort" and demanding an immediate retraction by the scientific community. This will, of course, guarantee Chongo a solid turnout of support from gorillas in the next election.

Politics! ;-D