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- Path: sparky!uunet!infoserv!decwrl!csus.edu!netcom.com!desiree
- From: desiree@netcom.com (dmc)
- Subject: Cloning as a way of life (was Re: Fake persons)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.192231.26942@netcom.com>
- Summary: I won't grovel. I'll beg though... Can I come over?
- Organization: 1-800-Car-Club
- References: <1993Jan23.185924.19241@netcom.com> <1993Jan24.215515.13861@netcom.com> <1993Jan26.053115.9538@netcom.com>
- Distribution: ba
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:22:31 GMT
- Lines: 80
-
- Today, Charlie Hand, makes me giggle with an amusing and well-written
- article:
-
- >Now, let me get this straight. "Desiree Champaign" thinks
- >"Charlie Hand" is a pseudo-name? Is it just me or is there
- >something recursive about this?
-
- Oy! It's just you. It's a well known UseNet rumour that I do
- not exist and my name is fake. And it's Champagne -- I paid damn good
- money for the name -- so please get it correct. (Oh, since we have a
- vote going on -- let's play, "guess Desiree's real name"...that should
- provide amusement -- and I'll *actually* give anybody that can come up
- with my *real* name a day with the LizardKid...)
-
- >No, I understand. She wonders if I am a pseudo-personality,
- >a clone of another net.conversant in the group. Absolutely not.
- >I never fool around with cloning. Not after that last time.
-
- Yea, I don't fool around with clones either. As sexual partners,
- they're pretty dead.
-
- >I'll never forget it. I thought it would be great to have a
- >clone. I figured I could send it to work for me, have it do the
- >laundry, that sort of thing. I even let it take care of my
- >Usenet postings.
-
- Obviously you were inexperienced in the entire cloning game.
- The technology just ain't up to snuff yet -- but we're working on it.
- Duplicating the original with panache is tres difficult. Hell,
- just getting the hair right (at least in my case) is pretty damned
- hard. But don't give up! Breakthroughs are being made every day.
- The reptilianchild is a pretty good clone, I think. At least he's
- "passing" with some effectiveness. Course he's a newer model with
- very little mileage on him. More tests are being run everyday...
-
- But even in the older models, clones are very helpful in
- day-to-day things -- talking on the phone (not as cost-effective as
- an answering machine, but loads of fun with the sales dweebs or
- bill collectors); going on the blind dates (my personal fave);
- or doing house/grunt work. We've not been able to come up with an
- effective model yet that can "pass" at work (bosses are generally
- a form of clone themselves and are hep to the gig...), sexual
- partners or driving any form of vehicle.
-
- >There, under my name, I found post after post of the most vulgar,
- >foul, and abusive tirades I have ever seen in my entire life. Several
- >posts were over a hundred lines of nothing but four-letter words.
- >I was mortified. I left a brief post about having had too much
- >coffee, changed my password, and went to work trying to repair my
- >clone.
-
- Yet another case of a clone run amok. Happens all the time.
- There are actual documented cases of this -- most are available under
- the Freedom of Information Act as well. I suggest that anybody
- interested in cloning as a future way of life make the effort to
- dig out the information. And there are CloneCon's every other year.
- The next will be held in 1994 in Nantucket. The Con's are actually
- very informative and fun! Workshops are being planned for
- useful topics like -- clone programming: table manners, vocabularies
- and handwashing.
-
- >In the end there was nothing I could do. I finally had no choice but
- >to get rid of him. On the pretense of a Sunday drive, I took him up
- >to Big Sur. As he stood on the edge of the cliff, screaming endless
- >profanities toward the ocean, I gently nudged him over the edge.
- >I was free at last.
-
- Did you at least videotape the experience so that you can
- sell it to Hollywood for a snuff film? You gotta learn to recapture
- costs from cloning.
-
- I understand your negative experience with cloning -- but
- don't give up. Cloning has its definite rewards. Being part of the
- new wave is difficult, I know -- but just think, in thirty years
- you'll be able to tell your little cloned-grandchild how the world used
- to be...
-
-
- Desiree
-
-