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26 Sep 10 - 06:44 AM (#2993875) Subject: BS: APP incensed over gorilla article! From: Little Hawk 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 |
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26 Sep 10 - 04:14 PM (#2994094) Subject: RE: BS: APP incensed over gorilla article! From: Gurney 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! |
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26 Sep 10 - 04:37 PM (#2994109) Subject: RE: BS: APP incensed over gorilla article! From: Amergin I know people who think that AIDS was passed to humans by screwing a monkey. |
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26 Sep 10 - 04:45 PM (#2994114) Subject: RE: BS: APP incensed over gorilla article! From: Amos 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. A |
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26 Sep 10 - 05:12 PM (#2994129) Subject: RE: BS: APP incensed over gorilla article! From: gnu 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." |
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26 Sep 10 - 07:27 PM (#2994191) Subject: RE: BS: APP incensed over gorilla article! From: Rapparee 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. |
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26 Sep 10 - 08:04 PM (#2994204) Subject: RE: BS: APP incensed over gorilla article! From: Little Hawk 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. |
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26 Sep 10 - 08:38 PM (#2994219) Subject: RE: BS: APP incensed over gorilla article! From: Joe Offer Is there an app for that? |
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26 Sep 10 - 09:32 PM (#2994240) Subject: RE: BS: APP incensed over gorilla article! From: Rapparee Yeah, it's called Anopheles. |
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27 Sep 10 - 07:44 AM (#2994384) Subject: RE: BS: APP incensed over gorilla article! From: Little Hawk 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... |