Re: your mail

Bob Beer (bbeer@u.washington.edu)
Mon, 20 Dec 1993 11:17:36 -0800 (PST)

> Hmmm...First I hear on the news all this talk about the legality of some
> patents regarding genetically altered plants. Now you suggest that Carlquist
> was doing some work with carnivores at that research facility, and suddenly
> all the botanists fled for unknown reasons...could it be that one of the
> experiments was too successful? That something went wrong...very very wrong..
>
> Strange how all the cats that usually roam my neighborhood are suddenly
> absent...
>
Has someone come up with a giant drosera which naturally baits itself
with chicken-flavored kitty treat aromas?