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- From: zgilbert@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Zvi Gilbert)
- Subject: Re: A quote looking for a context
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- Organization: crystallized eggs
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- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 05:08:51 GMT
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- ajd@oit.itd.umich.edu (Arthur Delano) writes:
-
- My relative, the famous gynocologic researcher, smiled at me from behind
- his white mask. "Cheri," he said, in his inimitable French accent, "zees
- procedure will make me famous. I freezes the ova, and zen later zey can
- be unfrozed."
-
- "That's great, Jacques," I replied. "But what's the point? Don't they do
- this kind of stuff already, freezing ova and embryos?"
-
- "Ah," he exclaimed, snapping a pair of rubber gloves, "My own addition have
- solved certain problems. I has brought zees procedure in at a much lower cost.
- Zat is where you come in, my rich American _familie_."
-
- "Go on," I said.
-
- "We will _sell_ frozen eggs at a low cost! Sufficient to-- how you say--
- refertilize the sousands of women who want to bear children..."
-
- "With a little bit of profit, franchise, and patents for us, I suppose,"
- said I, catching his drift.
-
- "Oui! Fran-chay-zes! I have not sought of zat." With his gloved hand,
- he carefully extracted a bottle of chilled champagne from a nearby cooler.
- "You see? With your money and ex-per-tise and my _brilliance_, we gets rich!
- Now, a toast," he said, popping the bottle.
- >"Cold eggs, couisine, has not been sufficiently exploited."
-
- --Zvi
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