Did you leave your hamster DNA on a train?

[pesco]

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/09/03/did-you-leave-your-hamster-dna.html

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[mr_raccoon]

[anon21999795]

“No, Watson, wombat DNA has a bouquet reminiscent of leather tanned in the vicinity of Heidelberg. This DNA has the slightest hint of curdled horse milk, and the lavender overtones mean it can only be… hamster.”

[euansmith]

And it has a tart aftertaste too.

[Frederick_Hagemeiste]

[everdred]

Of course, it’s company policy to never imply ownership in the event of hamster DNA, we have to use the indefinite article “a” hamster DNA, never “your” hamster DNA.

[williamkattwill]

They needn’t have tossed it out. DNA isn’t especially thermolabile. It was probably just fine. And now some poor lab tech will have to spend a half day isolating it anew.

[Sqyntz]

Jurassic Park - Dino DNA

[Brainspore]

I was expecting London rather than Heidelberg. I understand it’s a regular occurrence to find hamster DNA in The Tube.

[Faffenreffer]

Enough with the kink shaming already, geez. Little Hamnet has a thing for public transportation seating, mea culpa.

We’re going to get him fixed, I promise.

[FGD135]

[pbasch]

Anyone know the German for “hamster DNA”?

[FGD135]

Hamster DNS.

[IanM]

And thus the only evidence that might have secured a conviction against the great thief Whiskers McGraw was destroyed.

[pbasch]

Oh. I was hoping “hamster” would be one of those long German words…

[ludd]

Daskleinermeerschweinchen?

[FGD135]

Nope.
 

[fuzzyfungus]

I’m not entirely sure why seeing this story immediately caused me to snap into reworking the lyrics of “Will The Circle Be Unbroken” into a solemn lament regarding the continuity of the cold chain; but that’s what happened.