A guy goes to a girl's house for the first time, and she shows him into the living room. She excuses herself to go to the kitchen to make them a few drinks, and as he's standing there alone, he notices a cute little vase on the mantel. He picks it up, and as he's looking at it, she walks back in.
He says "What's this?"
She says, "Oh, my father's ashes are in there."
He says, "Jeez...oooh....I..."
She says, "Yeah, he's too lazy to go to the kitchen to get an ashtray."
William Ernest CastleBorn 25 Oct 1867; died 3 Jun 1962 at age 94. William Earnest Castle was an American biologist and geneticist who was one of the earliest experimental geneticists. Castle's interest in natural history began as a youth growing up on a farm. From 1897, he was a biology instructor at Harvard. In 1901, he was the first to adopt a variety of the fruit fly, Drosophilia for experiments because of its advantage of quick breeding. He took an interest in Mendel's ideas, extended Mendel's Laws to mammals, and made a connection with Darwin's ideas on natural selection. |
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