I've shown this before somewhere in this blog, but since Ben recently put up a post on "unintended consequences" and the use of genetic modification, just thought it worth mentioning that an older piece of mine on Grimace is up at the SCQ.
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GRIMACE: What am I?
The opener for my lecture last week. Note that I got the biggest laughs with Grimace (Grimace is always good for a laugh), and with the Olympic mascots (a Vancouver thing). Know any others? (click on the movie).
We New Yorkers see more death and violence than most soldiers do, grow a thick chitin on our backs, grimace like a rat and learn to do a disappearing act.