My Little Retrovirus
July 3rd, 2005
...and you thought hammies and broccolis were cute.
Check it out at GiantMicrobes, which distributes 4-inch plush dolls of…well…microbes.
Got the flu? Or maybe just the common cold?
I don’t know about you…but I’d much rather snuggle up to these than the real deal.
What’s next? A line of plush molecules? We could do the basics: H20, CO2, etc…and then throw in some adenine, guanine, thymine, cytosine (and don’t forget uracil!)...move on to some DNA…RNA (all types of course: tRNA, mRNA, etc)...and (hell!) all the amino acids! Before you know it, we’ll make a k’nex for molecular biology!
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July 5th, 2005 at 11:17 am
i feel like teaching kids to snuggle up with meat and/or viruses might not be the best thing…
July 5th, 2005 at 2:55 pm
...right…because when kids snuggle with stuffed lions and cows and tasmanian devils, their initial impulse is to cuddle with the real thing…
July 6th, 2005 at 3:57 pm
hey, i know from experience that hundreds of little kids would love to snuggle with hippotomases.
But also, think about all those people that poke animals or knock on fish tanks. People get mauled by things like moose (very moody animals) every year.
(not that i think the stuffed animals are really at fault here…)
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