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by Blackjack » Sat Jan 29, 2005 5:18 pm
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RUMOR #9: Pokémon causes cancer.
Source: The Web site for the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
The official story: Curiously, Nintendo's reps were all out of the office on Friday. (Suffering from Pikachu poisoning, perhaps?)
What we heard: Few things provoke as severe a love/hate reaction as Pokémon games. That said, even the most rabid Pikachu-basher wouldn't accuse the franchise of being carcinogenic (though the TV show based on the games was accused of causing seizures). However, in the purest technical sense, "Pokemon" does cause cancer. That's because "Pokemon" is also the name of a cancer-causing gene that was recently discovered. In a study published in the January 20 issue of Nature, researchers at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer outline how they isolated the POK Erythroid Myeloid Ontogenic factor--or POKEMON, for short. What's next? A leukemia gene called Dragon Ball Z? A terminal case of Yu-Gi-Oh! Syndrome?
Ah, that made me laugh.
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by mikehendo » Sat Jan 29, 2005 5:27 pm
heh, I always knew Pokemon was a little sketchy..
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by Kilgamayan » Sat Jan 29, 2005 6:08 pm
\o/
Boston Celtics coach Doc Rivers wrote:If you win two in a row, you're automatically in first place in the Atlantic Division. It's in the agreement, you know. Hell, you lose two in a row and you can be in first place in the Atlantic Division.
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by TopCat » Sat Jan 29, 2005 6:27 pm
That's nothing, the DS will stop a pacemaker if it gets too close.
hahaha i don't come to these forums anymore
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by Nukinblackmage » Sat Jan 29, 2005 7:59 pm
Question: Where the hell do they get the "n"?
"POK Erythroid Myeloid Ontogenic factor"...shouldn't that be "POKEMO" or "POKEMOF"?
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by Healer24 » Sat Jan 29, 2005 10:19 pm
The "n" probably comes from the second letter of Ontogenic. I would guess that this is because even if the Nintendo franchise never existed, POKEMON probably sounds a little better as an acronym than POKEMO.
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by Nukinblackmage » Sat Jan 29, 2005 10:25 pm
but, like I like "pok"-ing the silly little "emo" people
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