Ooggaahh Ooggaahh????

By Jim Hagarty
2013

A leading geneticist has declared that it would be possible to clone a Neanderthal although a female host willing to carry the big schlub for nine months would need to be found.

Apparently, not that hard a thing to do.

They can probably find her among the pool of dozens of women who have signed up to go to Mars someday knowing that the plan would be to never bring them back. However, this whole thing is kind of crazy. Does the great geneticist not know that the world is already populated by 278 Neanderthals, currently “serving” in the U.S. Congress and otherwise calling themselves Republicans?

In fact, if a Neanderthal was actually cloned from ancient DNA, grew up and watched CNN for a day or two, he’d probably say about the Republicans, “Ooggaahh?” which is Neanderthalish for “WTF?”

Author: Jim Hagarty

I am a 72-year-old retired journalist, busy recovering from a lifelong career as an unretired journalist. This year marks a half century of my scratching out little fables about life. My interests include genealogy, humour and music. I live in a little blue shack in Canada and spend most of my time trying to stay out of trouble. I am not that good at it. I also spent years teaching journalism. Poor state of journalism today: My fault. I have a family I don't deserve, a dog that adores me, and two cars the junk yard refuses to accept. My prized possessions include my old guitar and a razor my Dad gave me when I was 14 and which I still use when I bother to shave. Oh, and my great-great-grandfather's blackthorn stick he brought from Ireland in the 1850s. I have only one opinion but it is a good one: People take too many showers.