A scientist cloned himself, but the clone turned out to be incredibly rude. Eventually, the scientist got sick of his clone and pushed him off the side of a mountain. The next day he was arrested for making an obscene clone fall.
What’s so funny about this? We’re probably not that far away from human clones, exact replicas of ourselves. The best movie I ever saw on the subject was “Multiplicity” starring Michael Keaton. It was made in 1996 and if you haven’t seen it, do. Hard to believe it’s almost 20 years ago and still right on topic and funny as hell. So this joke is about a scientist who will live sometime after the scientist who will win the Nobel Prize for the first human clone (not counting Dr. Frankenstein). Our scientist discovered that even though his clone was identical in appearance, in personality, he was not. This may be a real issue in the future. Will a clone’s brain function the same as the original’s? Will they have the same memories? Anyway, this particular clone had a foul mouth, meaning he was rude and swore a lot which I’m sure annoyed a lot of people. Apparently, the original scientist was the most annoyed so one day they must have gone for a picnic in the nearby mountains, and when he got the opportunity he pushed the clone off the side of the mountain. So was this murder or not? That’s not for us to decide but as the joke tells us, the scientist was arrested the next day for “making an obscene clone fall”. If you look carefully you’ll realize that this is really a spoonerism (well, almost) of “making an obscene phone call.” Switching the initial sounds of PHONE CALL, we get CONE FALL, so we have to add an L to the word CONE, making it more of a pun. But maybe that’s how the clone got his nasty mouth. And THAT’s what’s so funny!
