Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site houxt.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!hogpc!houxt!ijk From: ijk@houxt.UUCP Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: NY TIMES Editorial - "Sex and Roach at Yale" Message-ID: <459@houxt.UUCP> Date: Tue, 7-Aug-84 12:20:51 EDT Article-I.D.: houxt.459 Posted: Tue Aug 7 12:20:51 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 8-Aug-84 19:43:56 EDT Organization: ATT Information Systems, Holmdel NJ Lines: 27 For all of you who don't read the NY Times because it doesn't carry funnies, heres an item from the editorial page, reprinted w/o permission or further comment: "Cockroaches have inhabited earth for hundreds of millions of years. The dinosaurs couldn't crush them, and man hasn't had any luck either. Comes now a team of Yale scientists with the ultimate challenge - sex. "It's simple, if you're a chemist. Bait a trap with the sexual stimulant given off by the virgin female roach and the males will parade in. When the females sniff what the males are giving off, they follow. The problem has been making the stimulant. In nature, it takes 75,000 virgin roaches to produce 200 millionths of a gram. "A team headed by Associate Prof. Stuart Schreiber has now produced a synthetic substitute. In a laboratory test, a trillionth of a gram of its "periplanone B" is said to driven six males into a half- hour frenzy and left them exhausted. Yale is so impressed that it has applied for a patent. But then Yale's been around for only 282 years." Ihor Kinal houxt!ijk I'll resist from making too many comments, although I can think of a bunch. JUST THIS: imagine spilling some of that stuff on you... (Supposedly something similar happened to the guy who developed the hormone for gypsy-moths -- he couldn't wash it off, and for a month, he was swarmed by hordes of male moths). Have a nice day.....