OT: Nicknames?

[S Viemeister]

Hmm. Brain not in gear. That should be 'hinny', not 'jenny'.

[Rod]

Nah - you get a hinny when the dough hits the girdle. :-)

And it sings.

[Andy Hall]

I vote it the best one of the weekend. Not smutty and requiring the reader to be a Radio 4 listener.

[The Natural Philosopher]

Ah. I did wonder

Anyway, its a genetically modified horse (or donkey)

[Andy Hall]

I was wondering more about the mechanics.

Aren't horses usually much larger than donkeys?

[S Viemeister]

Yes. That's why there are more mules, than hinnies.

[Dan Smithers]

I thought that it was particularly ironic that they made the seed sterile as a "concession" to the environmentalists while rubbing their hands with glee at all the extra profits they would have to make.

[Dave]

So why have some far East chicken farmers died from bird flu?

I take it that you have not read the reports of normal oil seed rape picking up GM from the modified stuff then?

Where is the change here then? Despots can kill far quicker than hunger.

Dave

[Andy Hall]

That doesn't compute.

[S Viemeister]

Female donkeys can have major obstetric problems, trying to birth offspring sired by a horse. Female horses seldom have birthing problems due to the size of a foal sired by a donkey.

[John Rumm]

I think the logic being a that a donkey may require a step ladder to do the deed on a horse, whereas the converse is far simpler!

[Andy Hall]

Thank you John. That was where I was going with this. Thanks for phrasing it so tastefully.

[The Medway Handyman]

Where would a donkey get a step ladder?

[Lino expert]

Screwfix.

[Andy Hall]

Wickes, same as you would.

[S Viemeister]

:)

[Paul Herber]

That's not stable.

[Andy Hall]

Better rein it in before you get spurred on to greater things and people start to bridle.

Hang on. We've had the tack jokes recently

[John Rumm]

Steps'R'Ass ?

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember John Stumbles saying something like:

Not even in the earliest tests were they daft enough to do that. With all the scientists and generals watching, upwind only. Later on, with expendable squaddies, downwind, maybe.