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Ozzy Osbourne To Be Genetically Decoded

Dashiva Dan writes "DNA research lab Knome has announced that it is going to sequence Ozzy's entire genome. Ozzy, the former lead singer of Black Sabbath, reality television star, and spokesman for World of Warcraft among many other things, has been selected so they can discover, among other things, how drugs are absorbed in the body. The amount of abuse Ozzy has put himself through and survived is a large part of why he was chosen."

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  1. The secret to his DNA revealed by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Eating the heads off Bats. It gives him superpowers .... Shwing!

  2. Better idea by lyinhart · · Score: 5, Funny

    Should've chosen Keith Richards. Man's practically indestructible. If we could reverse engineer him, we'd have a genetically perfect superarmy.

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  3. Chuck Norris? by AffidavitDonda · · Score: 5, Funny

    What about Chucks genome? he is indestructible and, after all, he invented genetics, didn't he? But maybe his genome would be too complicated for research...

  4. you dunnnowhattyertalkin by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Funny

    bouymen didi surviveorSURVIVEDidunno WHAT yourtryinto saybout me MAN survival im striving surviving man i dunnowhatyer talking someone wheres my drin i said ineed mydrinkwhered didiput the keyys

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  5. Re:Survived? by sg_oneill · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think this all really hinges on your definition of "survived."

    "Somehow isn't dead after snorting the entire cocaine output of a small south american nation."

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  6. Concentrations by Dachannien · · Score: 5, Funny

    I don't think Ozzy absorbs drugs anymore. After all, osmosis only works for moving stuff from high to low concentrations.

  7. the problem with chuck norris's genes by circletimessquare · · Score: 5, Funny

    is that they would take the electrophoresis gel, slurp it down like jello, then spit it out as diamond bullets at the researchers. then it would take the southern blot, kick it so hard it would turn into a northern, western and eastern blot and actually blot out the word "southern" from all maps ever printed

    finally, his genes, when put in the polymerase chain reaction, would replicate uncontrollably, each new sequence of chuck norris genes gaining umpteenth levels of mystical levels of martial arts power, until the polymerase chain reaction would actually set off a runaway nuclear chain reaction. the upside of this nuclear chain reaction is that it would create elements never before seen by man, and when overhearing some of the physicists from down the hall the biochemists hurriedly call into their lab that these new elements are supposed to be unstable, chuck norris's genes would be so insulted they would spontaneously stabilize every single radioactive element in the known universe, then spontaneously rewrite the fundamental laws of nature so that radioactivity itself ceased to exist

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  8. Re:Survived? by BluBrick · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's too late for Keith - he's already dead.
    He actually died in 1992, but no-one had the heart to tell him.

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  9. Re:Do they have any of his old DNA by Kaeso · · Score: 5, Funny

    The report didn't have anything else on it, so I'm guessing they didn't test for heavy metals or anything of that sort. If they had, I wouldn't have been all that surprised to see mercury and lead in the list.

    As for Ozzy, he at least ought to test positive for heavy metal...