Researchers have stopped using rats in experiments, and they’re using Republicans instead – on account of Republicans aren’t as cute as rats, they breed faster, they’re harder to kill, and nobody cares if one dies.
And there’s still *some* things you can’t get rats to do.
Daniel Keys Moran
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