Idea for Valentine's Day 2006?

If chocolates and flowers are no longer doing it for your lover, scientists in Britain are offering a novel gift idea for Valentine's Day next year--rings made from your very own bone stem cells.

Props to Pamela Friedman.

Comments

[sage]

If I still had it, I would make a necklace out of my foreskin. Course she would get a backache from wearing something so heavy around her neck. I know, I'm not funny.

[David]

I'd prefer to give a different sort of bone for Valentine's day. I'm not funny either.

I can imagine my girlfriend saying "honey, I wanted a diamond ring but this creepy bone ring is much better!".

[crimethink]

As long as it's not embryonic stem cells.

Paging GG...

[Col Dubois]

I gave my wife a necklace with my own embryonic stem cells in it. How bout them apples, crimethink?

[crimethink]

Col DuBois,

They must have been the ones that would have developed into neurons.... 😉

[c]

Funny, I gave your wife one of those necklaces too. How do you like them apples? : )

[Jason Ligon]

Ahh, the Reason locker room ...

[Col Dubois]

c: How did you get my embryonic stem cells?

[c]

you don't REMEMBER?

[slanger]

That's nothin, I gave her a pearl necklace

[Pavel]

The very first Valentine's present I gave to a girlfriend was a necklace with one of my wisdom teeth (pulled out whole), with the rune for wisdom carved into it.

I have never gotten a better reaction for anything since then.

[crimethink]

Col DuBois,

The point is, how did you get your embryonic stem cells? 😉

[StarRegistry]

Your puny bone-rings are nothing compared to my ability to register the names of stars with the U.S. copyright office!

[smacky]

That's nothin, I gave her a pearl necklace

This is great! I was going to say that. I actually consider myself funny, too....but I'm probably not, either. ( 🙁 )

[smacky]

Ahhh....I just finished off my lunch with a Cadbury egg. If the chocolate industry really wants to cash in on Valentine's Day next year, they should start making Valentine's Day Cadbury Eggs. "Heart Eggs?" I am suggesting this sincerely as a true alcoholic - er, I mean chocoholic.

Hmm...bone rings? I think the idea is pretty cool in theory, yet very creepy at the same time...although I would have to give any guy I date props for unusualness/quirkiness... I think I would definately want one if it could be intricately carved (with a laser, maybe?) and polished, like those beautiful, miniature ivory carvings from Early Christian art.....

[smacky]

Oh, who am I kidding....seeing as how I didn't get anything for Valentine's Day this year that wasn't from my own mom, I would be happy with a Cracker Jack plastic ring.

Creepier yet cooler: A bone ring would be much cooler.
Even creepier: his own ring finger.

[Lowdog]

Aw, smacky, we're sorry. If it makes you feel any better, I didn't get anything for Valentine's Day either.

And ya' know, all us loney, geeky lib guys woulda hooked ya' up - all ya' had to do is ask. 😉

[Fred]

Got a "this article is embargoed" notice at New Scientist. No more fun???

[Lord Duppy]

"Sorry, this article is embargoed"

What the hemhorraging fuck is this?

I'm pissed.

[Larry Edelstein]

"Embargoed" means that they've agreed with a source that they won't run the article until a certain time/day. Presumably they screwed up first by putting it there before the embargo, and now they've corrected it. Or there's a bug in their publishing system.