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Re: DNA test results

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On 10/28/2018 7:48 AM, Dorothy J Heydt wrote:
> In article <pr3i4m$obr$1@dont-email.me>,
> Dimensional Traveler  <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote:
>> On 10/27/2018 8:39 PM, Ninapenda Jibini wrote:
>>> Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> wrote in
>>> news:pr2qml$tdd$1@dont-email.me:
>>>
>>>> On 10/27/2018 3:35 PM, Ninapenda Jibini wrote:
>>>>> djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote in
>>>>> news:pH9zK6.209p@kithrup.com:
>>>>>
>>>>>> In article <XnsA9887A26A6491taustincagmailcom@69.16.179.43>,
>>>>>> Ninapenda Jibini  <taustinca@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>> djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote in
>>>>>>> news:pH9sBC.1sH1@kithrup.com:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> In article <XnsA9886C14CEECCtaustincagmailcom@69.16.179.43>,
>>>>>>>> Ninapenda Jibini  <taustinca@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>>>>> benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> wrote in news:pr0tvm$1gl9$3
>>>>>>>>> @gioia.aioe.org:
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> On 10/26/2018 11:58 PM, The Starmaker wrote:
>>>>>>>>>>> i can buy a DNA test at Walmart...
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> but, but...
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> but what would it find?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> maybe i got some....cousins who are monkies?
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> maybe, maybe...
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>>> I got some Martian ancestors!
>>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>>> Would find large amounts of Neanderthal DNA, Bozo.
>>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> You're an optomist, aren't you?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Many, if not most, people of European descent have a
>>>>>>>> *little* Neanderthal DNA.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That was not the insult I was aiming for. I have doubts that
>>>>>>> Starmaker's DNA is that close to vertebrate, much less
>>>>>>> mammal.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Well, s/he's got to have fingers, at least.  And probably,
>>>>>> eyes.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So likeliest, s/he's either a vertebrate or a cephalopod.
>>>>>
>>>>> Or a chatbot. A very broken chatbot written by a very stupid
>>>>> person.
>>>>>
>>>> I think you just insulted broken stupid chatbots.
>>>>
>>> And the stupid people that write them.
>>>
>>> But Dorothy insulted squids first.
>>>
>> Octopi.  They are smarter than squids.  From some of the stories I've
>> heard they're smarter than a fair number of humans.
> 
> There was a video on the web once, unfortunately I don't have the
> link, showing an octopus in an aquarium unscrewing a jar in order
> to get the food inside.  With running comment by a human,
> speaking Finnish.
> 
In the version I've heard the scary part is that after eating the 
octopus puts the remains back in the jar and closes it.  They apparently 
also have a habit of escaping from their tanks and going walk about.

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instinct are running screaming.

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DNA test results The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-10-26 20:58 -0700
  Re: DNA test results benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-10-27 01:44 -0400
    Re: DNA test results Frank <"frank "@frank.net> - 2018-10-27 09:26 -0400
    Re: DNA test results The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-10-27 09:24 -0700
    Re: DNA test results The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-10-27 09:34 -0700
    Re: DNA test results Ninapenda Jibini <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-10-27 17:37 +0000
      Re: DNA test results djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-27 18:21 +0000
        Re: DNA test results Ninapenda Jibini <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-10-27 19:00 +0000
          Re: DNA test results djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-27 20:57 +0000
            Re: DNA test results benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-10-27 17:28 -0400
              Re: DNA test results Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-10-28 09:29 +0100
                Re: DNA test results benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-11-03 20:31 -0400
              Re: DNA test results djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-28 14:45 +0000
                Re: DNA test results Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-10-28 16:06 +0100
                Re: DNA test results Ninapenda Jibini <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-10-28 22:45 +0000
              Re: DNA test results Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2018-10-29 02:03 -0300
            Re: DNA test results Ninapenda Jibini <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-10-27 22:35 +0000
              Re: DNA test results Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2018-10-27 16:00 -0700
                Re: DNA test results Ninapenda Jibini <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-10-28 03:39 +0000
                Re: DNA test results Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2018-10-27 22:40 -0700
                Re: DNA test results J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-28 09:19 -0400
                Re: DNA test results djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-28 14:48 +0000
                Re: DNA test results Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2018-10-28 09:35 -0700
                Re: DNA test results J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-28 14:38 -0400
                Re: DNA test results djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-28 20:29 +0000
                Re: DNA test results The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-10-28 13:46 -0700
                Re: DNA test results The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-10-28 13:53 -0700
                Re: DNA test results djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-28 20:17 +0000
                Re: DNA test results J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-28 16:39 -0400
                Re: DNA test results Dimensional Traveler <dtravel@sonic.net> - 2018-10-28 19:37 -0700
                Re: DNA test results djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-29 04:44 +0000
                Re: DNA test results Ninapenda Jibini <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-10-28 22:30 +0000
                Re: DNA test results Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-10-28 23:36 +0100
                Re: DNA test results Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-10-28 23:46 +0100
                Re: DNA test results Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-10-29 00:02 +0100
                Re: DNA test results Ninapenda Jibini <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-10-29 05:16 +0000
                Re: DNA test results Ninapenda Jibini <throbbingsausage@gmail.com> - 2018-10-29 05:15 +0000
                Re: DNA test results Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2018-10-29 20:00 +0100
                Re: DNA test results Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-10-29 12:52 -0700
                Re: DNA test results The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-10-30 22:53 -0700
            Re: DNA test results J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-27 19:13 -0400
            Re: DNA test results The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-10-27 17:12 -0700
            Re: DNA test results goldfarb@ocf.berkeley.edu (David Goldfarb) - 2018-10-29 06:20 +0000
              Re: DNA test results djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2018-10-29 12:53 +0000
                Re: DNA test results J. Clarke <jclarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2018-10-29 22:05 -0400
                Re: DNA test results Robert Carnegie <rja.carnegie@excite.com> - 2018-10-29 20:29 -0700
              Re: DNA test results Jibini Kula Tumbili Kujisalimisha <taustinca@gmail.com> - 2018-10-29 08:26 -0700
        Re: DNA test results benj <benj.fake@gmail.com> - 2018-10-27 17:16 -0400
        Re: DNA test results The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-10-27 17:10 -0700
        Re: DNA test results synthius2002@yahoo.com - 2018-10-28 22:19 -0700
  Re: DNA test results The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2018-10-27 09:13 -0700

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