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Bees 'hold key to alcohol misuse'
2004-10-24
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#12  talk about over inflating your claims to get grant money! Bees "hold key to alcohol abuse" *scoff!* a more appropriate title would be "taxpayers fork out big bucks for lame experiment that shows bees get drunk when given alchohol".
Posted by: 2b   2004-10-24 7:48:47 PM  

#11  Then let them bee the designated drivers.
Posted by: ed   2004-10-24 10:34:24 AM  

#10  bees, drunk or not can't power a plane like a fly
Posted by: Frank G   2004-10-24 10:33:43 AM  

#9  The bees were secured to a small harness made from a piece of drinking straw and fed solutions of sucrose and ethanol. The ethanol concentration ranged from zero to 100.
I don't think it's the bees that have a problem.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-10-24 10:27:56 AM  

#8  I've heard of a "beer buzz" before, but this is just too much.
Posted by: Mike   2004-10-24 9:08:46 AM  

#7  The team found the bees which had consumed the higher concentrations of ethanol spent the least time flying or grooming and spent more time on their backs.

Dr Mustard said: "These bees had lost postural control. They couldn't coordinate their legs well enough to flip themselves back over again."


Loss of "postural control" would seem to explain a lot regarding typical sorority girl complaints the following morning.

Just another BGO (Blinding Glimpse of the Obvious). Who are these overpaid science geeks and how can we strangle them in the cradle to prevent any further abuse of public funding?
Posted by: Zenster   2004-10-24 2:45:07 AM  

#6  My first thought was to check the byline for an April 1st posting date. Second thought, given that this is from al-Beeb, was to wonder why they didn't compare and contrast with the behavior of Islamic bees.
Posted by: Classical_Liberal   2004-10-24 2:41:13 AM  

#5  "Waaaaall, Mr. President, it's the bees and spiders agin..."
Posted by: mojo   2004-10-24 2:10:56 AM  

#4  Re: #2, lol! Bee goggles? Lol!
Posted by: .com   2004-10-24 1:02:07 AM  

#3  In other news, alchohol has been found to increase those factors associated with not giving a f*ck about addicition.
Posted by: badanov   2004-10-24 1:00:14 AM  

#2  So did the boy bees start hitting on the ugly girl bees?
Posted by: Hupins Angoting4884   2004-10-24 12:44:20 AM  

#1  Wow, I never tried this excuse before. :)
Posted by: Laurence of the Rats   2004-10-24 12:33:27 AM  

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