Wednesday, July 06, 2005

Genetics

Anyone who knows Charles Clark is well aware of his strong and generally strange attachment to the movie "Grease" starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. He has watched this movie an innumerable number of times and has even worn out a VHS tape of the film. For the sake of simplicity, let's just say that he likes the movie.

Recently young Kara Clark has become enamored with a film she has just discovered. If she is watching it in her room, and you can listen in the action without being seen, you can hear her singing along with the movie. This movie is 'Grease'.

To say the least, this is eerily like her Uncle years before as he watched the movie over and over again. I have a theory. This situation offers rare insight into genetic transfer. Clearly I am a carrier of the 'Grease" gene without knowing it until now. This also means that my mother or father are also carriers of this gene. Somewhere in the tall branches of my family tree there is the genesis of the 'Grease' gene, only no one knew about because the movie hadn't come out yet.

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