To paraphrase the Seattle Post Intelligencer, under heading of Mike
Mailway.
 
QUESTION: The new science of embryo implants has made it possible to
permit a woman to give birth to a gorilla.  However, not one woman has
yet done so.
 
Quick reference to Grizinek's Encyclopedia of Mammals states that the
weight of a 1965 baby gorilla born in the Frankfort Zoo in Germany is 4.6
lbs.  A phone call to the Seattle Zoological Garden reveals that this is
about the same weight of baby gorillas born here.
 
I would think that a baby gorilla would weigh more than a human baby, but
it doesn't.
 
So what's this got to do with ferrets, you may ask?
 
Just this: were I a woman of child bearing age, what I would want to do
is to have one of my embryos implanted with the genetic material so that
I could give birth to a ferret.
 
Now isn't that interesting.  Can you think of the myriad problems that
would result as a consequence of a woman giving birth to a ferret?  I
reckon the birthing would be pretty easy, don't you think ... that tiny
little ferret kit would just slip thru the birth canal like a banana
dropped thru a manhole.
 
Edward Lipinski, who cannot conceive but would be absolutely willing to
do his part to get an embryo started so that it could be genetically
engineered to grow in the womb as a ferret and later be born as such.
[Posted in FML issue 2715]