"10 CLONES To Live With You On A Deserted Island?" Topic

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.

Anyone's, or just my current?

Well-known person, if possible. :)

CC

condoleezza rice.

either a very good looking woman or the guy down at my club that rolls only 1's. that way i always win.

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)?

"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

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.

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.

I meant to add . . .

The clones would also go through age-progression to the age of your choice!

CC

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

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.

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

What about 10 Barbara Edens (when she was in her prime)?

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Plus, I would teach them to call me "Master". :)

That might just make most of my wishes come true!

CC

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.

hmmmm….

Jet Li? (so the next island over has something to worry about?)

Kylie.

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

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

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.

Pictor said: "condoleezza rice"

Times 10! I think you'll need a pretty big hammer…

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.

<<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

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

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!"

:)

Jack White gets it!

"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.

This is interesting, about synchronized cycles:

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About clones and personality differences (individuality):

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CC

jpattern2 – That idea makes me nervous, frightened actually.

My vote – Kelly Craig.

PJ

"jpattern2 – That idea makes me nervous, frightened actually."

"Not me."

"Me neither."

"He's crazy"

"Ignore him!"

MacGuyver, so he could turn my shoes into a jet-propelled catamaran and get me back to the land of hi def and PS3.

Ah, yes, and then I would also have the little bonus of being able to kill MacGuyver ten times.

10 clones of the same person??????

Well, at least you won't starve.

Lucy Lawless, I'll second that motion!!

"Lucy Lawless"

Think about it for a minute!

10 Amazons and one male slave to do all the chores?

CC

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.

Jeff Probst, guaranteeing that I won't be there very long…

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. :)

"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

I'd only need 1 clone of Christina Applegate. Oh Kelly Bundy! Ahhem, sorry, got carried away.

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…. ;)

10 Sylvia Saint please :)

<<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…")

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.

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…

Whatsitgood4atwork,

You mean Jeri Ryan?

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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.

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

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.

10 Naomi Campbells or 10 Ghandis…..either way you would be ready to swim to the next island after a week

Dr. Evil made his choice, of course:

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