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AIDS Can Fight AIDS

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the numbers-games dept.

dptalia writes "Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have announced that they have engineered a strain of the AIDS virus that fights AIDS. This strain of AIDS works like a vaccine and improved the immune system of the test subjects. After three years on this new therapy, no side effects have been observed."

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  1. Ingenious by Centurix · · Score: 5, Funny

    We can genetically modify idiots to fight other idiots!

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    1. Re:Ingenious by debilo · · Score: 5, Funny

      We can genetically modify idiots to fight other idiots!

      Yeah, but the idea is not patentable, since Congress has prior art.

  2. Highlander by Umbral+Blot · · Score: 4, Funny

    There can only be one! (AIDS virus)

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  3. So after the AIDS.... by UniverseIsADoughnut · · Score: 4, Funny

    So after the AIDS kills the AIDS, then they send something in to kill the AIDS that kills the AIDS....

    So at what point does a Cow get sent in to go after the chicken.

    1. Re:So after the AIDS.... by kupan787 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Skinner: Well, I was wrong. The lizards are a godsend.
      Lisa: But isn't that a bit short-sighted? What happens when we're overrun by lizards?
      Skinner: No problem. We simply release wave after wave of Chinese needle snakes. They'll wipe out the lizards.
      Lisa: But aren't the snakes even worse?
      Skinner: Yes, but we're prepared for that. We've lined up a fabulous type of gorilla that thrives on snake meat.
      Lisa: But then we're stuck with gorillas!
      Skinner: No, that's the beautiful part. When wintertime rolls around, the gorillas simply freeze to death.

  4. don't cross the streams by macadamia_harold · · Score: 4, Funny

    Scientists at the University of Pennsylvania have announced that they have engineered a strain of the AIDS virus that fights AIDS.

    Well, whatever you do, don't cross the streams. You're sure to get human sacrifice, cats and dogs living together, mass hysteria!

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  5. People can fight people by Bushido+Hacks · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's only a matter of time before one of the AIDS strains invades the other AIDS strains on suspicions of building protiens of mass cell destruction.

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  6. Re:Two Wrongs by dunkelfalke · · Score: 4, Funny

    no. but three lefts do.

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  7. Finally! by dangitman · · Score: 4, Funny

    The principles of Bum Fighting applied to medical science. It brings a tear of joy to my eye.

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  8. Re:A lot more is necessary... by nacturation · · Score: 4, Funny

    It needs to be inexpensive, easy to administer, and something that only needs to be administered once.

    A bullet?

    [Yes, I'm joking. And yes, I know I'm going straight to hell for that one.]

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  9. Re:Two Wrongs by God'sDuck · · Score: 5, Funny

    Burns: This sounds like bad news.
    Doctor: Well, you'd think so, but all of your diseases are in perfect balance.

  10. Re:A lot more is necessary... by tehcyder · · Score: 4, Funny
    Yes, I'm joking. And yes, I know I'm going straight to hell for that one.
    So you believe in a Deity that condemns people to eternal suffering because they told one shitty bad taste joke? Fucking hardcore.

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