Twins, Cloning, and Bureaucracy
Mr. Gardner: Uh hey boss, uh I’ve got to bring up one small problem in the current legislation.
Mr. Slagster: What is it?
Mr. Gardner: Well you see, we went a little crazy with the anti-cloning laws and whatnot. It was fun and kooky and people sure did seem to enjoy it.
Mr. Slagster: Yeah, so what’s the point?
Mr. Gardner: Twins are now technically illegal.
Mr. Slagster: What!?
Mr. Gardner: So are triplets, quad, the six ones, the seventh ones. I mean I’m not very familiar with the whole Latin naming scheme they’ve got going. I think I can only go up to the four or ma…
Mr. Slagster: What the hell are you talking about?
Mr. Gardner: While banning cloning, we made it illegal for more than one person to have the same DNA. It’s sorta funny if you think about it.
Mr. Slagster: That’s horrible.
Mr. Gardner: No no no, don’t worry fraternal twins are A-OK. So your children are perfectly alright.
Mr. Slagster: Well uh, can’t we just not enforce it?
Mr. Gardner: We don’t want to seem lax on laws. Remember we tried that with drug enforcement and that turned into the whole 60s.
Mr. Slagster: Yeah yeah, I remember. Say, any chance of repealing it.
Mr. Gardner: The people voted on it. Poor ignorant bastards, sell their own soul to the devil if it was a multiple choice grid consisting of a 2 small circles and two short paragraphs describ…
Mr. Slagster: SO WHAT?
Mr. Gardner: The elected officials don’t like going against public opinion so close to election time. Wouldn’t be prudent as our former president would say.
Mr. Slagster: What are we going to do?
Mr. Gardner: I was thinking some sort of death camp. You know we march the twins into these chambers…okay I can tell by that look, you don’t get I’m joking. Fine, I propose that we simply take away their citizenship until after elections are over and then try to work out a committee to see that their civil rights are eventually reinstated.
Mr. Slagster: Okay yeah funny.
Mr. Gardner: Dang, I was being serious.