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Kevin Quinn (kquinn at cba.bgsu.edu)

Fri Oct 27 11:36:43 EDT 2006

A friend sent me this risible snippet from the Colbert show.  
  
Kevin Quinn  
  
  
>>Q U O T E D  
>>Stephen Colbert: "You said 'anyone who grew up on a farm knows that  
>>evolution exists'. OK, are you saying a monkey can milk a cow?"  
>>Peter Agre: "Well, if I can milk a cow I suspect a monkey as smart as I  
>>am can milk a cow."  
>>SC: "Are there monkeys as smart as you?"  
>>PA: "I'm sure there are quite a few, quite a few.  
>>SC: "Oh really? Mmhum. Do they give a Nobel prize for throwing your own  
>>feces?"  
>>PA: "........That's the Economics prize, I think."  
>>-- Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert interviews Dr. Peter Agre of  
>>Scientists and Engineers for America