Make it so
I interrupt this brief blogging hiatus to bring you this important news. Scientists estimate that the effort to produce a live woolly mammoth will cost only $10 million. At that price, we can’t not do this. Just think of it. Mammoths!
This is an important national priority. I assign the task of securing funding to Hank Paulson. No one will notice if a measly $10 million is whisked away from that $700 billion TARP fund.
November 26th, 2008 at 9:15 am
I’m wondering if we even need the government to do this. At $10 million, some rich guy would try to order one for his private animal collection. Maybe even a big budget Hollywood movie would have one made. Beats CGI.
Nice Picard reference. If only Patrick Stewart were President.
November 26th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Yeah, for that sum you wouldn’t even need a Bill Gates or Warren Buffett type. The local guy who owns a bunch of McDonald’s franchises would be able to scrounge that kind of money together.
Or it would have been a good Michael-Jackson-before-the-fall project. Beats the Elephant Man’s bones.
November 26th, 2008 at 10:08 pm
Or maybe, instead, someone could use this money for something worthwhile.
November 26th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Whoops! Obviously, the mammoth-hatin’ was from me, not from you.
November 27th, 2008 at 12:37 pm
If only Patrick Stewart were President, the drapes in the White House would be FAAAABULOOOOOUUUS!
And the Secret Service would be riding Mammoths.
And Van Halen could go back to their original name. (Look it up, you know you want to.)
December 2nd, 2008 at 12:29 am
Hah! I should have guessed.
(I looked it up.)