Seems I'm not the only one thinking about cloning. My friend Flecken is too. But he seems to have given it a little more thought than I did. According to Flecken, cloning me will not make another me. It will make a Lyle-like Whigle who might not actually want my spot on the couch. Here is how Flecken explained it to me:

The first (and most important) thing is that you are not really creating another "you." You are merely creating a genetically identical duplication of you. Due to the effects of non-biologic factors such as food, home life, school, etc., Lyle2 would look exactly like you, and have the same genetic predisposition toward health-related matters, but would (hopefully) not act exactly like you! In other words, now that the bosses have some hard-earned experience in the care and feeding of whigles, that experience would impact Lyle2's personality and behavior...in effect resulting in an intellectually and behaviorally superior Lyle2 (assuming that they don't make the same mistakes with Lyle2 as they did with LyleYou).

So obviously I don't want one of those. But other than me, who wouldn't want one? Duh. Everyone would want a Lyle.

I hear what the people want and now your dreams can come true. Behold Gro-A-Lyle. You send me $5000 or 3 chickens and I will send you my toenail clippings. You too can Gro-A-Lyle! Your Lyle might be just like me or he might be just like Lyle2. It's up to you.

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