February 23, 2012

Self-medicating with alcohol...

... by fruit flies.
Posted by Ann Althouse at 10:45 AM
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8 comments:

traditionalguy said...

Darwin may be right. We are descended from fruit flies. At least the Irish are.

2/23/12, 10:48 AM
Anonymous said...

Ironically, the genus name is Drosophila, which means "dew loving." Or in this case apparently, mountain dew.

2/23/12, 10:52 AM
Crazy Bald Guy said...

I don't drink but lately I've been thinking about taking it up.

2/23/12, 10:53 AM
Anonymous said...

And a riff on the old joke about time, fruit flies, and bananas which is this case would be banana dacquiris

2/23/12, 10:53 AM
edutcher said...

Many a drunk has operated on that theory.

2/23/12, 11:32 AM
Patrick said...

Must be Irish.

2/23/12, 12:32 PM
bagoh20 said...

So, I told this beautiful woman last night that she probably has internal parasites eating her guts from the inside out, and that I would pay for the medicine to kill them off. We had a lovely evening after that, and everyone felt relieved afterward. Winning!

2/23/12, 3:02 PM
William said...

I just hope that the unfortunate habit of a few fruit flies doesn't lead to stereotyping of this species whose members are overwhelmingly sober and hardworking.

2/23/12, 4:02 PM

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