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"Naked Mole Rats Have the World's Ugliest, Most Sluggish Sperm"
The Virginian ^ | 12/8/2011 | Moneyrunner

Posted on 12/08/2011 2:39:36 PM PST by moneyrunner

James Taranto's "Best of the Web"

If They Want to Reproduce, They'd Better Get Some Clothes On


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: humor; napl
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1 posted on 12/08/2011 2:39:45 PM PST by moneyrunner
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To: shibumi; Allegra; Eaker; TheMom; TheOldLady; Xenalyte; Bacon Man; eastforker; Lazamataz
"Naked Mole Rats Have the World's Ugliest, Most Sluggish Sperm"

DAMMIT!

2 posted on 12/08/2011 2:43:32 PM PST by humblegunner (The kinder, gentler version...)
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To: moneyrunner


3 posted on 12/08/2011 2:45:12 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Joe 6-pack

D*mn, you beat me to it.

Old “nostrilitis” was the first thing that came to my mind.

Although, the mole rat probably has the higher IQ.

Prettier nose, too.


4 posted on 12/08/2011 2:57:36 PM PST by Da Coyote (Liberalism - when you absolutely, positively have no ability to produce wealth.)
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To: Joe 6-pack

Look! A weiner with teeth!


5 posted on 12/08/2011 3:05:30 PM PST by goseminoles
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To: goseminoles
"Look! A weiner with teeth!"

Yep...and a naked mole rat in the top photo!

6 posted on 12/08/2011 3:11:32 PM PST by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: moneyrunner

Hard work, but I traced it back, and back, to the source:

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/animals/stories/naked-mole-rats-have-the-worlds-ugliest-most-sluggish-sperm


7 posted on 12/08/2011 3:21:58 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero

Well, no. They got it from here:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21240-naked-mole-rats-make-deformed-sluggish-sperm.html

And THEY got it from here:

http://www.biomedcentral.com/bmcevolbiol/

Word is spreading fast!


8 posted on 12/08/2011 3:24:34 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Joe 6-pack; humblegunner

When you put those two together like that in the same post, it makes the mole rat look cute and happy.


9 posted on 12/08/2011 4:30:43 PM PST by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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To: humblegunner

When’s the next race?


10 posted on 12/08/2011 4:57:32 PM PST by Eaker (Nothing even remotely praising Romney should be posted because one should stick to the truth.)
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To: moneyrunner

Their is a Massachuetts and Connecticut Department of Motor Vehicles Worker Joke in here somewhere....


11 posted on 12/08/2011 4:59:43 PM PST by taildragger (( Palin / Mulally 2012 ))
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To: humblegunner; Joe 6-pack; Allegra; Eaker; TheMom; TheOldLady; Xenalyte; Bacon Man; eastforker; ...

Joe 6-pack has, with his juxtaposed photos of that grotesque thing next to the cute mole rat, inadvertently made the only plausible case for homosexuality being somehow “useful” and quasi-normal.

It may just be nature’s way of seeing that the horrifically ugly and perversely stupid among us pass through this life without passing on whatever errant genes made them that way.


12 posted on 12/08/2011 5:53:17 PM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: humblegunner; Eaker; Allegra; TheOldLady

OOOHh! Lookie-Lookie!

They have their own blog!

http://en.wordpress.com/tag/naked-mole-rat/


13 posted on 12/08/2011 6:00:04 PM PST by shibumi (Cover it with gas and set it on fire.)
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To: moneyrunner

,,,,,,, don’t tell Bubba Clinton . . .


14 posted on 12/08/2011 6:08:29 PM PST by Lionheartusa1 (-: Socialism is the equal distribution of misery :-)
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To: Cicero
Word is spreading fast!

This will be top, above-the-fold headline news on all major outlets by morning.

15 posted on 12/08/2011 6:27:51 PM PST by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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To: shibumi; humblegunner
They have their own blog!

Personally, I've always looked forward to a blog about mole rats and sluggish sperm.

16 posted on 12/08/2011 6:30:33 PM PST by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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To: Allegra

Needs a front-page photo, too.

17 posted on 12/08/2011 6:32:46 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero
Hello, handsome. {smooch!}


18 posted on 12/08/2011 6:45:47 PM PST by Allegra (Hey! Stop looking at my tagline like that.)
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To: shibumi
Rod Serling predicted Waxman.


19 posted on 12/08/2011 11:11:28 PM PST by Salamander (I'm Wounded, Old And Treacherous.)
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To: Allegra

Add some socks and it’s the blog trifecta.

:)


20 posted on 12/08/2011 11:13:47 PM PST by Salamander (I'm Wounded, Old And Treacherous.)
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