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http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22177823-13762,00.html?from=public_rss

So, would you eat it?

Possibly.
Is there a punchline on that obviously loaded query?


Gotta love timewarps. NS is full of 'em tonight - most of them pointed at Ruffy.

Hermaphrodite lamb has seven legs

http://www.news.com.au/common/imagedata/0,,5593673,00.jpg

A LAMB born with seven legs in New Zealand is likely to have to be destroyed, a vet says.

The lamb has two extra legs that hang useless behind the forelegs and three hind legs, one with two hoofs.

It walks using its two forelegs and three hind legs, the local Ashburton Guardian newspaper said.

Veterinarian Steve Williams at the Canterbury Vets clinic in the rural town of Methven said he believed he believed an error during embryo formation, which happens once in several million sheep, resulted in the extra limbs, AP reported.

The lamb was also hermaphrodite, meaning it has male and female sexual characteristics.

Some of the animal's bowel was also missing so it has been unable to pass faeces and would have to be destroyed.

The six-day-old lamb was born last Friday on the farm of Dave and Di Callaghan.

Mr Callaghan said he had found the seven-legged newborn, who had a normal twin, walking round in the paddock with its mother.

"I have never seen anything like that," he said according to AP.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22177823-13762,00.html?from=public_rss

So, would you eat it?

Spiders laying eggs in animal's ears?

Myth...confirmed?

Ugh. I'd catapult it into the Grand Canyon, but probably not eat it. :p

Sort of puts your own problems in perspective, doesn't it? I mean, look at this poor bastard.

:(

Possibly.
Is there a punchline on that obviously loaded query?Something funny about the sort of oven you'd need, perhaps?

But no, I wouldn't eat it.

Awww, poor freak of nature.

Looks like a case of triplets, with a corruption in the code causing 2 of them to fuse up. The hermaphroditic part of the story is interesting. I wonder if sheep use the X/Y or Y/Z system.

Looks like a case of triplets, with a corruption in the code causing 2 of them to fuse up. The hermaphroditic part of the story is interesting. I wonder if sheep use the X/Y or Y/Z system.

*thought it was W/Z*

Pity it has to be put down. I'd keep it and name it, Multilamb. :)

Multilamb. :) - It's like a Swizz army knife, but softer :p

Then again, I'm not sure how fun it would be to get covered in shit-stained Multilamb after a week. But perhaps you could adopt it and sell it to some dictator as a bioweapon, before it goes boom?

No reason to kill it, just give it a colostomy so its shit can come out of wherever its bowel ends. I assume it doesn't have an asshole?

A zoo would probably pay millions of dollars for it.

But but but...God is perfect! He must have made this lamb for a reason! It surely couldn't be a fluke of life that is the result of evolution rather than an intelligently driven process by an all-knowing God!

Pity it has to be put down. I'd keep it and name it, Multilamb. :)

I'd adopt it into my nation, it wouldn't be noticed between 10 billion other sheep :)

I'd adopt it into my nation, it wouldn't be noticed between 10 billion other sheep :)Does that mean all your sheep are mutated one way or another?

Does that mean all your sheep are mutated one way or another?

Most of them are mutated into instant Shoarma. Our genetic labs are called slaughterhouses :)

Can be name it "Kyle Cartman's Mom"? :p

But but but...God is perfect! He must have made this lamb for a reason! It surely couldn't be a fluke of life that is the result of evolution rather than an intelligently driven process by an all-knowing God!

It looked good on the blue print but something malfunctioned on the way.

It looked good on the blue print but something malfunctioned on the way.

Yeah, God was too busy trying to keep his son off coke when they actually began producing the goat.

Can be name it "Kyle Cartman's Mom"? :p
...you mean Eric Cartman's mom?

Yeah, God was too busy trying to keep his son off coke when they actually began producing the goat.

Was that post really necessary?

I'd adopt it into my nation, it wouldn't be noticed between 10 billion other sheep :)

I think you're the first nation I've seen with >10 billion.

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Dude. You're old.

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22177823-13762,00.html?from=public_rss

So, would you eat it?

I don't eat lamb anyway.

Coincidence (http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb281/Barringtonia_bucket/Cthulhu.jpg) anyone?

Cthulhu is breeding.

I think you're the first nation I've seen with >10 billion.

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Dude. You're old.

I'm not old, I'm experienced :D

Looks like a case of triplets, with a corruption in the code causing 2 of them to fuse up. The hermaphroditic part of the story is interesting. I wonder if sheep use the X/Y or Y/Z system.

I think they upgraded to the new x/l 2007 system. They should have waited until the first update, though. I think the new version 1.2.1 is coming out next week and it's supposed to fix that bug. Sheep have always been early adopters and that's what happens when you daon't wait for the bugs to be worked out.

*thought it was W/Z*

Just looked it up on Wikipedia. Memory failed. :D

This is just the next step in evolution, just like the 5 assed baboon.

Well that lamb is full of shit.

This is just the next step in evolution, just like the 5 assed baboon.

or the pig- elphan hybrid.

Well that lamb is full of shit.

Ow.

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/060619.jpg

Somebody has been playing with the 'Spore' Beta. *nods*

I see not all radioactive spiders produce the same results.

This is just the next step in evolution, just like the 5 assed baboon.
Two steps ahead of the baboon.

or the pig- elphan hybrid.

Oh no children. THere is nothing worse than a drunk pig waking up next to a drunk elephant.

*thought it was W/Z*

I thought that was birds...

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/images/060619.jpg

Somebody has been playing with the 'Spore' Beta. *nods*

"Sometimes. . .Sometimes the paper leaks."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGWOD8js2_g

:D

Has it been killed already?