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Comments on: Fluorescent sow drops glow-in-the-dark piglets

Hurray! 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 09:58 GMT

Coat

BBQing in the dark now you can see where you dropped those sausages.

Glowing Organs... 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 10:08 GMT

Paris Hilton

If I get a glowing Liver replacement, will I be extra fun at the disco?

Sausages 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 10:25 GMT

Coat

Sausages with a green tint are nothing new.

The unlicensed hot dog stalls have been selling them for years.

But, if they do glow in the dark then a pack of chipolatas will be much cheaper (and easier to biodegrade) than yer average glow-stick.

I'll get me new fluorescent jacket - it's made out of crackling.

PC modding turned human 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 10:35 GMT

Coat

Just imagine all those sad people people can now match their computers..... and cars......

Climate Change 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 10:37 GMT

If humans were given glow in the dark noses imagine all the energy we'd save from the reduced need for artificial lighting. In fact, give humans genetic material from electric eels as well and we could power our gadgets by touch.

so when can we... 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 10:51 GMT

see little Chinese babies with glow in the dark hands?? or maybe athletes even! then we can shut down the floodlights at a night game and watch them buzz about like fireflies.

(yes, i know this is hardly PC, but what the hell, it is early on a wednesday)

This could mean the end of the yellow fluorescent jacket, 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 10:52 GMT

if this gene was added to the human race.

Glow in the dark? 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 10:55 GMT

Stop

Do they glow in the dark (i.e. could I use one as a night light?) or are they just florescent under UV light? It's not the same thing. I've really been looking forward to glow in the dark animals so please get it straight.

@Keith T 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 10:58 GMT

Happy

Sounds like a CMOT Dibbler product.

@Louis 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 11:51 GMT

IIRC the Jellyfish genes concerned impart bioluminescence so they do, indeed, glow in the dark.

@ Glowing Organs 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 12:07 GMT

Paris Hilton

re: your liver transplant

Could you please give us more information about how much fun you are at the disco now, to enable us to make this "extra fun" assessment

@Glowing Organs... 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 12:28 GMT

I've noticed my organ glowing in the dark sometimes, perhaps I'm related to a mutant Chinese jellyfish?

@ Hans 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 12:28 GMT

Paris Hilton

It's more about what it would add to the general nights festivities, and have more useful than just keeping me alive. I feel that glowing internal organs will aid my Disco fun in a number of ways..

1) I'll be able to see my wallet after dropping it on the floor while propping up a lamppost waiting for a taxi

2) I'll be able to do cool E.T. style glowing-chest tricks to impress the ladies

3) It'll allow me to win many a drink with bar bets.. 'I bet I can make my abdomen glow...'

And other such things.

@Hans @Glowing Organs 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 12:33 GMT

"Could you please give us more information about how much fun you are at the disco now, to enable us to make this "extra fun" assessment"

I guess @Glowing Organs has this genetic modification:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/27/japan_boffins_breed_mutant_transparent_sunroof_frogs/

Genetically modified glowing organs in humans... 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 13:38 GMT

...would immediately put the novelty condom business into recession.

I'll get my coat.

@nickj 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 13:57 GMT

".. perhaps I'm related .."

Either that or you benn having sex with scyphozoans

@ Louis 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 14:08 GMT

"I've been really looking forward to glow in the dark animals so please get it straight"

You've been really looking forward to glow in the dark animals? how strange : for what possible use? :-D

The real test... 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 14:51 GMT

... will be whether or not it is possible to create a red-nosed reindeer.

@ mitch.. 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 16:25 GMT

Coat

classic :)

Still glow in the dark piggies sound useful....esp for late night BBQ's as written above.

Glow in the dark cats 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 16:59 GMT

Boffin

"You've been really looking forward to glow in the dark animals? how strange : for what possible use? :-D"

Well, for a start, we could all stop tripping over our cats in the dark !

@ Glow in the dark cats 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 17:53 GMT

Coat

It'd sure make them easier to kick anyway...

Cat = Clay Pigeon 

Posted Wednesday 9th January 2008 22:49 GMT

Coat

PULL!!

Forget the cats and piglets... 

Posted Thursday 10th January 2008 00:45 GMT

I'll wait for the glow in the dark women.

@nickj 

Posted Thursday 10th January 2008 18:15 GMT

...or you've contracted a strange form of STD !! However, a more likely explaination is that you have not washed properly and are now harbouring a lot of bioluminescent fungi.

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