<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:"comic sans ms",sans-serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,0)">I think you would be lucky if you didn't get killed doing stuff like that. I don't know what you should be doing, but you are wasted. SNL, maybe? bill w</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, May 4, 2022 at 1:28 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="gmail-m_-6572224602804630137WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org" target="_blank">extropy-chat-bounces@lists.extropy.org</a>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ExI] dna<u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:rgb(34,34,34)">ready for some excellent frat-boy fun.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(34,34,34)"><u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:rgb(136,136,136)"> </span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS";color:rgb(136,136,136)">spike examples, please? bill w<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">We secretly collect DNA from air in a local restaurant. We don’t even know who it belongs to. We give a DNA kit to a sibling, register the unknown DNA under his name, send the restaurant sample to AncestryDNA a week before he sends his. Register his DNA under a different name. A few weeks later, results under his name come back from the mystery person in the restaurant, and Hey bro! You’re ADOPTED buddy! We suspected it all along! <u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Of course the parents deny everything.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">A few days later, results from my sibling come in, registered under a phony name. Phase two of the gag, call him up: BRO! They SWITCHED the BABIES at the HOSPITAL! You weren’t adopted, you were STOLEN!<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">Heh. Let that mess with his head for a few weeks. Then decide if you will ever let him in on the gag.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">All this shows to go ya, a comment I hear a lot in DNA circles: it’s so much fun to find second cousins. You make friends, share histories, sometimes become close. They become like a sibling, except without the baggage.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">If you do crap like that gag I described, that would definitely fall under the term baggage.<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS"">spike<u></u><u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18pt;font-family:"Comic Sans MS""><u></u> <u></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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