# Fire Bad! Chicken Good! Scientists to Create "Frankencow"! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 8, 2006, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-bad-chicken-good-scientists-to-create-frankencow/379617 "2006-11-08T22:31:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-bad-chicken-good-scientists-to-create-frankencow/379617/1 "2006-11-08T22:31:23Z")
As if [Frankenbunnies](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=391265) weren’t bad enough, now we’ve got to worry about [Frankencows!](http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6121280.stm) > [@](#): > > Researchers from Newcastle University and Kings College, London, have asked the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority for a three-year licence. > > The hybrid human-bovine embryos would be used for stem cell research and would not be allowed to develop for more than a few days. > > But critics say it is unethical and potentially dangerous. I have a sneaking suspicion that the folks at Chik-Fil-A are behind this. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2006, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-bad-chicken-good-scientists-to-create-frankencow/379617/2 "2006-11-08T23:56:08Z")
Mmmm… Longcow. :: droop :: ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 6:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-bad-chicken-good-scientists-to-create-frankencow/379617/3 "2006-11-09T06:47:25Z")
How long before [this](http://www.libreriauniversitaria.it/data/images/BUS/300/066/0836220668.jpg) becomes reality? ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-bad-chicken-good-scientists-to-create-frankencow/379617/4 "2006-11-09T13:13:40Z")
**FrankHolstein** Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! They said I was MAD at the University! A Mad Cow!! That ciow college! I’ll show them! Look at what I have created! This body has never died, because it has never lived! _I_ creatred it, putting it togetrher from parts I’ve found – Beef Hearts, Ox Tails, Sweetbreads, ripe, and the finest cuts of beef from Safeqway! Guts and intestines from the abbatoir! Skin from Leather World. All sewn together with loving care! And now the crowning touch, a Calf’s Brain! We attach the electrodes to the ring in the nose and the tag in the ear. Now it’s time, time to give it life. We must fly the kites! Where is that hunch-backed, sad-voiced donkey? Hel[p me with this and I’ll attach that tail permanently. Throw the switch, Eeyore!! … ---
**Author:** ![Count\_Blucher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Count\_Blucher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Count_Blucher)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-bad-chicken-good-scientists-to-create-frankencow/379617/5 "2006-11-09T14:27:55Z")
[QUOTE=CalMeacham] **FrankHolstein** Ah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha! They said I was MAD at the University! A Mad Cow!! That ciow college! I’ll show them! Look at what I have created! This body has never died, because it has never lived! _I_ creatred it, putting it togetrher from parts I’ve found – Beef Hearts, Ox Tails, Sweetbreads, ripe, and the finest cuts of beef from Safeqway! Guts and intestines from the abbatoir! Skin from Leather World. All sewn together with loving care! And now the crowning touch, a Calf’s Brain! We attach the electrodes to the ring in the nose and the tag in the ear. Now it’s time, time to give it life. We must fly the kites! Where is that hunch-backed, sad-voiced donkey? Hel[p me with this and I’ll attach that tail permanently. Throw the switch, Eeyore!! .. [/QUOTE] Mooo…mooo?..Moooouuaaah-ha-ha-Ha!!! 😃 (“Sliders…It’s what you Crave!”) ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-bad-chicken-good-scientists-to-create-frankencow/379617/6 "2006-11-09T14:44:18Z")
> [@](#): > > Mooo…mooo?..Moooouuaaah-ha-ha-Ha!!! "It lives! It lives! Who’s Man’s Best Friend now, eh? _Now_ I know what it feels like to be _Dog!!_" (The thunderclap echoes over the last word, drowning it out.) ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2006, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fire-bad-chicken-good-scientists-to-create-frankencow/379617/7 "2006-11-09T15:16:37Z")
A few lonely and misunderstood [prophets](http://www.cowswithguns.com/) have understood that [this was coming](http://www.3dweb.no/galleri/stuestolbm/bilder/anim1.swf).