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[andrewducker]

Apparently the recent news about making mice immortal isn't new:

They've already done this with dolphins. It involves feeding them seagulls. Unfortunately, the lead scientist was arrested when he stepped across a lion sleeping in the doorway to the lab, after catching a few seagulls.

The charge: transporting gulls across a staid lion for immortal porpoises.

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Comments

[andrewducker]

If you don't get it, it's based on an old US law "Transporting girls across state lines for immoral purposes."

[phillipalden.livejournal.com]

Ouch!

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Lawks. I heard the same punchline, um, thirty years ago? Attached, obviously, to a different joke. And I only understood it because I'd just recently read By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, I was fairly sure it was an old joke. Still made me groan loudly in the office though, so I thought it was worth inflicting on my flist.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what the original joke might have been. All I have ever remembered is the pun. I'm glad it's still going around; it's a good pun, whatever the complications of its excuse.

[ipslore.livejournal.com]

I've heard that one before, except the setup was a lot longer, and the punchline was 'transporting young gulls across a state lion for immoral sexual porpoises'.