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08-08-2006, 05:24 AM
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anti-stupid
This just in:
Yahoo News:
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You know anybody who needs an "anti-stupid" pill?
Mon Aug 7, 8:30 AM ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German scientist has been testing an "anti-stupidity" pill with encouraging results on mice and fruit flies, Bild newspaper reported Saturday.
It said Hans-Hilger Ropers, director at Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics in Berlin, has tested a pill thwarting hyperactivity in certain brain nerve cells, helping stabilize short-term memory and improve attentiveness.
"With mice and fruit flies we were able to eliminate the loss of short-term memory," Ropers, 62, is quoted saying in the German newspaper, which has dubbed it the "world's first anti-stupidity pill."
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Can I get a VERY large bottle to give out to certain individuals?
I don't think I've ever seen a stupid fruit fly. Just annoying fruit flies.
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08-08-2006, 06:55 AM
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But if everyone was as smart as we are, who would we have to make fun of?
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08-08-2006, 07:03 AM
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I'm sure, with us a smart as we are, we can find someone to make fun of...
hey, don't look at me...
I haven't had my medication yet...
mommie....
can I go out and play?
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08-08-2006, 02:11 PM
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I had heard about this on the radio too. I can see testing mice to see if they are less stupid, but fruit flies? The ones that don't fly into the bug zapper are the smart ones?
I have some co-workers that could use some of this though...
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08-09-2006, 02:31 AM
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I have some customers that could use this but does it work on the brain dead?
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08-09-2006, 06:02 AM
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so are there also pills in the works to make us stupider(heheh stupidER)??
..or is that what the media is for?.. ooooooooo SLAM!.. :lol:
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08-09-2006, 06:09 AM
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are there also pills in the works to make us stupider?
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don't need none of them pills...
got plenty o' stupid to go around!
8O
or to be PC...
intelligence challenged!
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08-09-2006, 06:19 AM
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I wanna be intellegence challenged, too. Can I? Can I Pleeeease?
"they say ignorance is bliss, but ignorance is just so fuckin ignorant, you may even be ignorant of it." -CeeLo Green
in other words maybe I am already intellegence challenged but too stupid to realize it..
on second thoughts....
I'll take several dozen bottles of them there anti-stupid pills Doc! :?
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09-01-2006, 12:48 PM
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Anti-stupid pills? ...tested on fruit flies?
2 big bottles, please.
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09-05-2006, 07:39 AM
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So, How do you figure out which Fruit Flies got the Placebo?? (scratches rapidly thinning Head)
Do we really need smarter Mice? Aren't they already Smart enough?
Seems like a big waste of time to Me. (returns to playing with dust dancing in the window)
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