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From: prune@inteloc.intel.com (Bill /Prune/ Wickart)
Newsgroups: sci.bio,misc.legal
Subject: Re: Are Animals Patentable?
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Date: 13 May 88 14:33:11 GMT
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Reply-To: prune@inteloc.UUCP (Bill /Prune/ Wickart)
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STUPID JOKE WARNING
   Of cource animals are patentable! Where do you think patent leather comes
from? Also, don't forget patent medicines made from snake oil.
STUPID JOKE ALERT ENDED. ARTICLE FOLLOWS.

>>I'm willing to be educated on this one.  My dictionary says of "mule"
>>	"a hybrid between a horse and an ass."
>>and of "hinny"
>>	"a hybrid between a stallion and a she-ass -- compare MULE."
>>From this it would seem that a hinny _is_ a mule. But I can't draw any
>>conclusion about the sex of the offspring.
>>Who can enlighten the city slicker?
>
>When I lived on a ranch in Arizona we called the male mules "mules" and
>the female mules "jennies."
>Never heard of a hinny, though.  Thanks for enlightening ME.
   The foal of a mare and a jack-ass is a mule.
   The foal of a stallion and a jenny (female ass) is a hinny.
   There are several overt sex-lined characteristics; the two are sufficiently
different to be given separate names. They are both "mules" in that they are
congenitally unable to reproduce.
T.F.Prune   {allegra|ihnp4|decvax|cornell|tektronix} !ogcvax!inteloa!prune
-- "Use it once, you're a wit; use it twice, you're a half-wit."
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