Posted on 04/07/2005 6:32:39 PM PDT by John Jorsett
Just heard a "this just in" flash on KFI AM640 in Los Angeles that the police in Las Vegas have executed a search warrant on the home of the woman who found a finger in her Wendy's chili. Police suspect the finger may that of the woman's dead aunt.
Considering there is only a one generation difference between and aunt and her nieces and nephews, It would be pretty safe to assume the mitochondrial DNA are identical for the purposes of the investigation. Of course I also wouldn't be surprised if the body were exhumed. In that case, not only would the mitochondrial DNA be identical but so would the nuclear DNA.
I guess there are only 7 for people of European heritage, but still, it doesn't seem to be very reliable to use as evidence.
Info from a surname genealogy site, the part about mtDNA is towards the bottom of the page:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~staplessurname/results.htm
Upton Sinclair was a marxist-socialist $h!t disturber, just like Rachel Carson. Both of their books are pure, chicken-little fraud.
You misspelled "rotten".;^)
No. The mitochondrial DNA is totally separate from the nuclear DNA. It is believed that mitochondria are decended from formerly free living bacteria that entered into an intracellular symbiotic relationship with the ancestors of eucaryotic organisms billions of years ago.
She said "pull my finger", and you pulled too hard?
There are multiple threads on the topic, and this one may reach four digits. I think an index to these threads would make the topic easier to thumb through.
I thought anything sooner than 500 years would be considered to be a fast mutation, so the mtDNA is not very good to use as an identifier, no?
Marking...
I can't wait to read this thread. ;o)
"Line people who work in food processing plants have senses of humor that make the FDA look Jonathan Winters.
You have worked in one I take it? :)"
Yes I have. A good one that kept security and food purity at the highest levels.
I was just waiting for that...LOL!
There was a story out here in California a couple of months back about a dead body that was found in the living room of a home. The family who lived therein had left the body where it had dropped dead (I think it was on the floor in front of the living room couch). They just vacuumed around it.
Think a glove could have kept the finger from being chili?
Wouldn't a couple of slices do? LOL!
ping
"Waiter, ist that a finger in my soup or is it just happy to see me?"
Oh, a LIMB...I thought you said a BIMB...
I figured I would get at least one of these from that segment of FReepers that sees everything as black or white; grey only enters their vocabulary when their hair turns grey.
Yes he was a socialist, but in the early 20th century even Teddy Roosevelt could of been called a socialist. The socialists have some valid ideas just like the religious right taliban have some valid ideas, thankfully here in America we have never let either one attain power and the middle accept those ideas that are sensible from both sides.
But maybe you are for children working 14 hours a day for just enough to feed them so they can come back to work the next day.
I know you were having fun with me:)
Yes. At the expensive Bellagio Hotel in Vegas they have pickled octupus and all these other unknown delicacies laid out just for breakfast! I like it! You bite into it and it feels like fish chewing gum for a second and breaks down quickly. Earthy taste. Like the octupus ate sea turtles for a living. Thus the need for cafe con leche con Anis. There was bear meat at another place, donated to the chefs frozen by some sportsman and tested for quality by the house. I already had some previously. Just another steak to me.
If you went to an expensive hotel with a big breakfast layout and only spent $15 for the buffet, wouldn't you experiment with the most exotic and expensive food available?
You need to go on a "fishing expedition" to these hotels once in a while:):):)
Put her in the "pokey."
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