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dredging up 1cc of spit is surprisingly hard to do

*backs out of the room quietly*

Damn Dutch. Now I’ll be able to buy a WeaselClone(tm) at Walmart.

Heh. “DNA Extraction”

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-cDs7xJBPpbw/TVWzYPKNDiI/AAAAAAAAAow/4tVWD-eBJgE/s1600/P2083569.JPG

“Your DNA is extracted from your 1cc of spit in the finest lab by the most highly trained technicians…”

Yeah, I’m pure WASP too. Pure English; we didn’t even get the “flavor” of any Germans or Swedes in the lines until the turn of the previous century. And only one of each.

At least you can play the Wimyn Card if necessary. Not me.

PS – Is your DNA secure? Once tested, does the place “accidentally” send a copy to the gov?

Dear Mister President,

After attempting to analyse the sample you provided, we could not determine with any accuracy your personal genome, as it appeared to be mixed with that of numerous other persons. We are requesting a second sample, which we hope this time will contain at least some detectable diploid DNA.

I did think about it, Drew. They keep your sample forever, if you tick that box. In the end, I didn’t think I’d be leaving any DNA where I shouldn’t oughta.

Was that intended for the CURRENT pResident, Stark Dickflüssig? Or for Slick???

the CURRENT pResident, Stark Dickflüssig

Hwæt! I am not president of even my local Raëlian Groupies for Mao. How dare you!

If a Hottentot taught a Hottentot tot
To talk ere the tot could totter,
Ought the Hottenton tot
Be taught to say aught, or naught,
Or what ought to be taught her?
If to hoot and to toot a Hottentot tot
Be taught by her Hottentot tutor,
Ought the tutor get hot
If the Hottentot tot
Hoot and toot at her Hottentot tutor?

Felix left me speechless for about 12 hours until I realized that I want to know how much Hottentot I got in me. I had been toying with 23 & Me a year or so ago when suddenly they got slapped down for making medical predictions (based on DNA) without FDA approval.

I see that they are back,
http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2014/06/20/seven-months-after-fda-slapdown-23andme-returns-with-new-health-report-submission/
But I wonder if you Brits get a better results package than we do in the U.S.

I would really like to know my ancestory, but I am pretty confident that the most exotic man in my German/French background is a sweet-talking Irishman or two. I am, in fact, drooling at the prospect of finding out… Whether I can drool a whole cubic centimeter’s worth remains to be seen.

I think I’ll do it though… And then we can all play, ” I’ll show you mine, if you show me yours”

Good, good…I was hoping to tempt someone into it. The more people they test, the stronger the data gets.

Trust us, they said. It is for
() regulating interstate commerce
() national security
() your own protection
() your own good, they said.

I can show you on the doll where they can pry my DNA from.

I can show you on the doll where they can pry my DNA from.

Woah, there, little buddy!

My first thought was “I wonder if they test for traces of Neanderthal DNA?” And, they do!

That’s one of the reasons I chose these people, Stephen — they specifically mentioned the Neanderthals. I have a thing about Neanderthals. I think we have wronged them, thinking of them as useless cavemen.

This is great Stoaty. You should write down what you expect to find, so you can compare it to what is revealed.

Well, I had one German grandma and one French grandma. All the rest of the known family surnames are English, with a Scot some generations back.

But I’m prepared to seen literally anything in there.

In other words, the SWeas may be Trayvon’s Great Aunt…
}:-]

I have red hair*, blue eyes, and a complexion that reflects light. That color palette dovetails perfectly with my ethnic genealogy, which is Danish, Scottish, and English. It’s those “generic Far Eastern” markers I’m curious about. There is one known for certain half-Indian on the family tree, but I bet there’s more.

*My naturally red hair—long since gone gray—through the years has been auburn, ginger, strawberry blonde, titian, and one unfortunate shade that my son named “Bride of Bozo,” but that’s not what it said on the box.

I have every intention of doing it one day. I know I’m mostly UK/Ireland, but Viking? Roman? Saxon? Norman? Celt?

I have no idea.

Heh. From the diagram, it looks like you are supposed to bleed from the mouth – or – nose into the tube, not spit.

Or else the person in the diagram has really, _really_ bad gums.

Druid.

And I don’t need a damn doll.