Whenever I get a package of plain M&Ms, I make it my duty to continue the strength and robustness of the candy as a species. To this end, I hold M&M duels.Read the whole thing.
Taking two candies between my thumb and forefinger, I apply pressure, squeezing them together until one of them cracks and splinters. That is the "loser," and I eat the inferior one immediately. The winner gets to go another round.
I have found that, in general, the brown and red M&Ms are tougher, and the newer blue ones are genetically inferior. I have hypothesized that the blue M&Ms as a race cannot survive long in the intense theater of competition that is the modern candy and snack-food world.
Occasionally I will get a mutation, a candy that is misshapen, or pointier, or flatter than the rest. Almost invariably this proves to be a weakness, but on very rare occasions it gives the candy extra strength. In this way, the species continues to adapt to its environment.
Sure, it starts with M&M's, but what's next...potato chips?
I mean--have you ever noticed that the Pringle chips are all identical?
[Hat tip: Hot Air Headlines]
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2 comments:
THANK YOU!
as a student of biology, more specificly evolutionary biology, i find nothing funny about this "joke." not only is it a complete bastardization of what evolution is (uh..no transfer of genetic material)...but it is, for some reason, mildly disturbing.
Of course, if you want to go beyond mildly disturbing, there is a book out there explaining rape in terms of evolution as a need for propagating the species.
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