IMPORTANT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH BEING CONDUCTED (WHERE ELSE?) AT THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA¹
The effect on rats³ of jello shots.
(Thanks to Grant Green)
¹Go Gators!²
²Don't tell the blog
³The kind with four legs
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The effect on rats³ of jello shots.
(Thanks to Grant Green)
¹Go Gators!²
²Don't tell the blog
³The kind with four legs
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Why are they doing these experiments on animals, when you have many perfectly willing volunteers here on this blog?
Posted by: Baron vonKlyff | January 24, 2007 at 12:22 PM
Why are they doing these experiments on animals, when you have many perfectly willing volunteers here on this blog?
Posted by: Baron vonKlyff | January 24, 2007 at 12:22 PM
Bot gave me a first and an identical second
Posted by: Baron vonKlyff | January 24, 2007 at 12:22 PM
shhhhhhhhhh we won't judi!!
Posted by: Siouxie | January 24, 2007 at 12:22 PM
Bot gave me a first and an identical second
Posted by: Baron vonKlyff | January 24, 2007 at 12:23 PM
I think that means that jello shots don't get you buzzed as fast as drinking.
I have never noticed this potential fact myself.
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Chris | January 24, 2007 at 12:23 PM
OK... now the bot is getting really annoying.
Posted by: Baron vonKlyff | January 24, 2007 at 12:24 PM
Keywords: Ethanol self-administration
I think that sums it up perfectly!
Posted by: fivver | January 24, 2007 at 12:24 PM
wowsa! a quad with a triplet Baron???
*faints*
Posted by: Siouxie | January 24, 2007 at 12:24 PM
wowsa! a quad with a triplet Baron???
*faints*
Posted by: Siouxie | January 24, 2007 at 12:24 PM
ACCKKK! stop!
Posted by: Siouxie | January 24, 2007 at 12:26 PM
And the point is............?
Posted by: Mot the Hoople | January 24, 2007 at 12:27 PM
"novel procedure for initiation of voluntary ethanol consumption"
'Cause rats aren't like dogs, who will just drink beer voluntarily.
Posted by: Lisa Bisa Fo Fisa | January 24, 2007 at 12:28 PM
*SNORK!@ Judi for "The kind with four legs"
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | January 24, 2007 at 12:30 PM
Sioux, can you give us some insider info?
Does Judi have a blogometer on her desk that measures when the thread becomes too
disgustingcumbersome?Inquiring minds want to know.
Posted by: Queen Med | January 24, 2007 at 12:32 PM
So now we have a source of alcohol that rats will reliably self-administer. And we won't even have to starve them first!
But what if we don't want to share?
Posted by: mm | January 24, 2007 at 12:33 PM
"Even so, lack of a need for initial food or water deprivation and the rapidity with which stable self-administration can be achieved both suggest utility of the “jello shot” as a completely voluntary ethanol procedure."
Why do I suspect that this research was done more for Friday / Saturday night use than lab use?
Posted by: KCSteve | January 24, 2007 at 12:34 PM
Weeeee! Jello shots all 'round! Purely for research, of course!
Posted by: casey | January 24, 2007 at 12:37 PM
KCSteve -you party with rats often? tell us more....
and *snork*
Posted by: mm | January 24, 2007 at 12:38 PM
Med, I wish I knew, but I've seen worse threads go on much longer and more disguting...just sayin'
Posted by: Siouxie | January 24, 2007 at 12:38 PM
I certainly hope the rats did some belly shots; that's the best way to consume jello shooters.
Posted by: casey | January 24, 2007 at 12:38 PM
casey- i'm thinkin' jello shots would work as well as gumballs in a pinch
Posted by: mm | January 24, 2007 at 12:39 PM
"Take that you dirty rat" *said in a James Cagney accent, slinks off to the geezer bus, kicking all the usurping geeks off before settling down on the chesterfield, sighs "To each his own sofa rings"*
Posted by: Mot the Hoople | January 24, 2007 at 12:41 PM
Body shots off a rat??!!? That is definitely NOT the best way. Body shots off a fox, on the other hand...
Posted by: The Dread Pirate Chris | January 24, 2007 at 12:45 PM
Having gone to Coyote Ugly last week and witnessing many body shots, I'd say you were right, Chris. My one complaint is that they didn't allow the women to have shots off the bouncers.
Posted by: Siouxie | January 24, 2007 at 12:57 PM
Careful, Mot. There were flatulent geeks on the Chesterfield before you kicked them out.
Posted by: Queen Med | January 24, 2007 at 12:58 PM
*Groans*@MtH.
*Tosses this in for bad measure*
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | January 24, 2007 at 12:59 PM
so it went from the geezer to the geek to the (so) fuc%ing sofa
Posted by: mm | January 24, 2007 at 01:02 PM
after voluntary ethanol consumption...
I reallly want to know how it's voluntary? Did they add some nice garbage flavors to the "gelatin"?
Posted by: jon | January 24, 2007 at 01:12 PM
Don't you just hate it when you've had a few jello shots & wake up to find the "surgical implantation of a guide cannula"!
Posted by: jon | January 24, 2007 at 01:18 PM
*Definitely inviting casey to the next blogparty!*
Posted by: Clean Hands | January 24, 2007 at 01:21 PM
Jon ethanol is alcohol. What rat wouldn't want a beer, even if it has to be put in jello and given as a shot?
Posted by: Edgar Greenberg | January 24, 2007 at 01:26 PM
As a Gator, I have to say, "way to go guys!" Also, we did this experiment many times, but as we were unable to afford rats we had to be noble scientists and experiment on ourselves.
Actually, I grew up in Gainesville, and you'd think a university town would have a better system of education, but the high school I went to was so poor they couldn't afford anything except worms to disect in Biology. They couldn't afford new worms every year, of course, so the worms would get re-used. I got one that was just an empty skin, it had been disected so many times, so the teacher told me to "just pretend".
Posted by: artchick | January 24, 2007 at 01:27 PM
I've had guinea pigs, cats, dogs, & birds... none of them ever wanted alcohol.
Except one cat who would sip out of my chardonnay (he hated reds, though).
Posted by: jon | January 24, 2007 at 01:37 PM
I had a 'tiel who sampled my merlot once, She was just sitting there on my shoulder, and I guess since I was drinking it, she thought a nice glug would be good. There was much head shaking afterward...
Posted by: jon | January 24, 2007 at 01:51 PM
jon- sorry I impersonated you there...
Posted by: mm | January 24, 2007 at 01:53 PM
if cows do jello shots is it cannibalism?
Posted by: crossgirl | January 24, 2007 at 02:01 PM
Clean, I accept. When & where?
Posted by: casey | January 24, 2007 at 02:40 PM
When I was at UF, I'm pretty sure they were doing these experiments on human subjects in the KA house behind my apartment building on Saturday nights. My alma mater *sigh* I'm so proud...
Posted by: JaniceG | January 24, 2007 at 04:36 PM
In the immortal words of my fave Art Buchwald column title: "White rats have all the fun!"
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