Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/09/03/did-you-leave-your-hamster-dna.html
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“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.”
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And it has a tart aftertaste too.
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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.
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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.
I was expecting London rather than Heidelberg. I understand it’s a regular occurrence to find hamster DNA in The Tube.
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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.
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Anyone know the German for “hamster DNA”?
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Hamster DNS.
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And thus the only evidence that might have secured a conviction against the great thief Whiskers McGraw was destroyed.
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Oh. I was hoping “hamster” would be one of those long German words…
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Daskleinermeerschweinchen?
Nope.
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.
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