Cacique Caribe | 20 Mar 2007 6:15 a.m. PST |
I you could take genetic material and make 10 clones of ONE specific person (all of them 1st generation copies) to live with you permanently on a deserted island . . . Who would you choose? CC PS. Current wife or girlfriend does not count. |
jizbrand | 20 Mar 2007 6:21 a.m. PST |
Anyone's, or just my current? |
Cacique Caribe | 20 Mar 2007 6:24 a.m. PST |
Well-known person, if possible. :) CC |
Pictors Studio | 20 Mar 2007 6:31 a.m. PST |
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Patrice Vittesse | 20 Mar 2007 6:32 a.m. PST |
either a very good looking woman or the guy down at my club that rolls only 1's. that way i always win. |
tnjrp | 20 Mar 2007 6:32 a.m. PST |
What about the "1st generation" stipulation? Are we to assume further cloning of clones will produce inferior specimen? Or is it simply meant to imply no feno- or genotyping is allowed (only carbon copies)? |
Cacique Caribe | 20 Mar 2007 6:36 a.m. PST |
"What about the "1st generation" stipulation? Are we to assume further cloning of clones will produce inferior specimen?" I was simply concerned that some would say that "a copy of a copy of a copy" would worry some and so I wanted to get past that issue and get right down to the nitty gritty of choosing the person. CC |
Goldwyrm | 20 Mar 2007 6:36 a.m. PST |
It certainly wouldn't be John Malkovich. It would be a toss up between Angelina Jolie, Drew Barrymore, and Heather Graham. Oh..wait a deserted island. I'd want someone useful as well as good looking. Rachel Ray, Cat Cora, or Nigella Lawson. |
John the OFM | 20 Mar 2007 6:38 a.m. PST |
Lucy Lawless. She's both tough and hot. Half of them would be assigned to go out and supply the rest of us with food, and defend us from mutants and all that. The rest could take of my, ahem, other needs. But, I would not be restrictive. A particularly nice pork roast would merit its own reward. |
Cacique Caribe | 20 Mar 2007 6:40 a.m. PST |
I meant to add . . . The clones would also go through age-progression to the age of your choice! CC |
RangerWorks | 20 Mar 2007 6:53 a.m. PST |
Hmm
interesting
10 clones of any age? Let's see
in that case I'll take two Ann-Margrets! One circa 1966(Viva Las Vegas) and another circa 1971(Tommy)
the mind fairly reels with possibilities! I'll have to ponder a while on the other 8 |
rddfxx | 20 Mar 2007 6:55 a.m. PST |
10 clones of ME! Consider: 10 clones of anyone else makes me odd man out desn't it? 10-to-1! I don't like those odds. |
Delta Mouse | 20 Mar 2007 6:55 a.m. PST |
At risk of tipping my hand concerning my opinions about modern Hollywood, here goes
Olivia De'Havilland Gale Sondergaard Rita Hayworth Virginia Mayo And the guys
Gene Kelly so he could teach me how to dance Basil Rathbone so he could teach me how to act Errol Flynn so he could teach me how to be so D*** cool! DM |
Cacique Caribe | 20 Mar 2007 6:58 a.m. PST |
What about 10 Barbara Edens (when she was in her prime)? link Plus, I would teach them to call me "Master". :) That might just make most of my wishes come true! CC |
nycjadie | 20 Mar 2007 7:02 a.m. PST |
I saw the Chefography last night on Nigella Lawson. Watching her cook makes me hungry. I'm always hungry. Given that, I would definitely want a woman who could cook. So I choose my wife. |
TredHedJon | 20 Mar 2007 7:07 a.m. PST |
hmmmm
. Jet Li? (so the next island over has something to worry about?) |
NoNameEither | 20 Mar 2007 7:14 a.m. PST |
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alien BLOODY HELL surfer | 20 Mar 2007 7:35 a.m. PST |
If you had ten clones of the same woman, would they all suffer PMT the same way and at the same time? That island would suddenly feel a very very small place! ;-p |
Cacique Caribe | 20 Mar 2007 7:40 a.m. PST |
Alien, I don't know if it is myth or not, but some claim that college room mates eventually syncronize their cycles (much as it is claimed for harem girls in the old days). That is one reason why some polygamist societies have provided different homes for each wife. Someone please confirm or contradict this assumption. Thanks. CC |
Pictors Studio | 20 Mar 2007 7:50 a.m. PST |
This does happen. They think it's due to pheremones. But women's cycles will synchronize. If a woman is on birth control and one is not the one that is not will usually sink up with the one on the pill. |
rddfxx | 20 Mar 2007 8:02 a.m. PST |
Pictor said: "condoleezza rice" Times 10! I think you'll need a pretty big hammer
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Cke1st | 20 Mar 2007 8:04 a.m. PST |
Definitely true about the syncing of cycles. I read an account where a South American fishing village volunteered to be a test site for a new oral contraceptive. At one point, all the women using it were told to stop for a while. Thus, all their cycles were in sync, so they all had PMS together. The men all put to sea together and didn't come back for two weeks. |
BlackWidowPilot | 20 Mar 2007 8:14 a.m. PST |
<<Errol Flynn so he could teach me how to be so D*** cool!>> Better read up on the *real* Errol Flynn and think again
Leland R. Erickson Metal Express metal-express.net |
JackWhite | 20 Mar 2007 8:24 a.m. PST |
I wouldn't want ten of anybody. There would be no variety. Everybody you'd know would be identical. Can you imagine ten women telling you to pick up your socks and put the toothpaste cap back on the tube? WE'RE ON A DESERT ISLAND! GET A GRIP! You'd probably need ten, because you'd more than likely have to kill them off one by one. Familiarity times ten breeds contempt times ten. JW |
jpattern2 | 20 Mar 2007 8:37 a.m. PST |
Easy-peasy: 10 clones of myself. Who else could possibly be as endlessly fascinating to me? "Good lord, Number 7, not only do I find you devastatingly attractive and a witty conversationalist, but once again I find myself one hundred percent in agreement with everything you say!" "Same here!" "Ditto!" "Likewise!" :) |
rddfxx | 20 Mar 2007 8:37 a.m. PST |
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Cacique Caribe | 20 Mar 2007 8:42 a.m. PST |
"I wouldn't want ten of anybody. There would be no variety." It's not all about "nature", there is also "nurture"! :) CC PS. Remember, most twins and other multiple birth children strive to develop their own personalities. |
Cacique Caribe | 20 Mar 2007 8:52 a.m. PST |
This is interesting, about synchronized cycles: link About clones and personality differences (individuality): link CC |
PJ Parent | 20 Mar 2007 9:03 a.m. PST |
jpattern2 – That idea makes me nervous, frightened actually. My vote – Kelly Craig. PJ |
jpattern2 | 20 Mar 2007 9:06 a.m. PST |
"jpattern2 – That idea makes me nervous, frightened actually." "Not me." "Me neither." "He's crazy" "Ignore him!" |
blackscribe | 20 Mar 2007 9:12 a.m. PST |
MacGuyver, so he could turn my shoes into a jet-propelled catamaran and get me back to the land of hi def and PS3. |
blackscribe | 20 Mar 2007 9:12 a.m. PST |
Ah, yes, and then I would also have the little bonus of being able to kill MacGuyver ten times. |
wolvermonkey | 20 Mar 2007 9:49 a.m. PST |
10 clones of the same person?????? Well, at least you won't starve. |
iouliared | 20 Mar 2007 10:26 a.m. PST |
Lucy Lawless, I'll second that motion!! |
Cacique Caribe | 20 Mar 2007 10:49 a.m. PST |
"Lucy Lawless" Think about it for a minute! 10 Amazons and one male slave to do all the chores? CC |
Roll Again | 20 Mar 2007 12:57 p.m. PST |
4 Jodie Fosters, 4 Jimmy Stewarts, and a pair of Helen Hunts please. I don't know if we'd get off that island, but I don't really care. |
Murvihill | 20 Mar 2007 1:00 p.m. PST |
Jeff Probst, guaranteeing that I won't be there very long
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Delta Mouse | 20 Mar 2007 1:13 p.m. PST |
BlackWidowPilot, I know he was really a total jerk, but what I was thinking about was his movie personae. After all, we are talking about clones. :) |
Cacique Caribe | 20 Mar 2007 1:21 p.m. PST |
"4 Jodie Fosters, 4 Jimmy Stewarts, and a pair of Helen Hunts please." Now, now, Rollagain. We are talking about 10 of a single individual. How about 10 of Vida Guerra? TMP link CC |
Sargonarhes | 20 Mar 2007 2:32 p.m. PST |
I'd only need 1 clone of Christina Applegate. Oh Kelly Bundy! Ahhem, sorry, got carried away. |
Zephyr1 | 20 Mar 2007 3:20 p.m. PST |
This is kind of like the same question of having to choose between Mary Ann or Ginger. (In which case I'd have to take Mary Ann, as Dawn has managed to keep her good looks after all these years
. ;) |
byram1 | 20 Mar 2007 5:18 p.m. PST |
10 Sylvia Saint please :) |
BlackWidowPilot | 20 Mar 2007 6:52 p.m. PST |
<<I know he was really a total jerk, but what I was thinking about was his movie personae. After all, we are talking about clones. :)>> A drug & alcohol addict and an apparent pedophile, not to mention his treason as a Nazi agent.. D-mouse, you'll REALLY have your work cut out for you! CC: <<10 Amazons and one male slave to do all the chores?>> That might depend upon the *precise nature* of the "chores"
Leland R. Erickson Metal Express metal-express.net ("Look, I may be a first-rate mortician, but I absolutely CANNOYT remove that smile from the deceased's face! The family is just going to have to settle for a closed casket ceremony
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Whatisitgood4atwork | 20 Mar 2007 7:47 p.m. PST |
If it was 9 rather than 10, I'd have 9 of the actress who played 7 of 9 on Star Trek Voyager. Then they could be 1, 2 etc of 9. As well as just being drop dead gorgeous. Or it it was 10, I'll have 10 Selma Hyaks please. Or frankly just about any of the other drop-dead gorgeous denizens of movie or TV land. |
tnjrp | 21 Mar 2007 12:32 a.m. PST |
The reason that you can only take 10 of the same person is why I asked about the possibility of phenotyping them
Some time ago read a short story (can't recall the author, and may have been Finnish in any case) about a bunch genetically similar but phenotypically varied clones (may have been 10 of them too actually, or maybe it was 12). Now we are probably a bit further away from phenotyping the human body to order than from simple cloning of it, but still it would make life easier if one person on the island wouldn't have to do all the heavy liftin' for example
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Cacique Caribe | 21 Mar 2007 5:34 a.m. PST |
Whatsitgood4atwork, You mean Jeri Ryan? link Nice choice!!! CC PS. You could always have a "One of Ten", "Two of Ten", etc. Or name them like this: Prima, Secunda, Tercia, etc. |
Greyalexis | 21 Mar 2007 5:45 p.m. PST |
I would take a clone of anyone who could build a boat and get me home. yuck. how are you going to be doing any gaming on an island. hell I cant get people to drive an hour for a game sometimes :P |
Matsuru Sami Kaze | 21 Mar 2007 6:47 p.m. PST |
Al Bundy was asked whether he would take his wife, Peg, or a color TV set if he was stranded on a deserted island. He answered that he would of course take Peg. You cannot use a color TV for bait. |
James Forrest | 22 Mar 2007 4:16 p.m. PST |
10 Naomi Campbells or 10 Ghandis
..either way you would be ready to swim to the next island after a week |
Cacique Caribe | 09 Jan 2009 3:18 p.m. PST |
Dr. Evil made his choice, of course: link CC |