Brilliant Guardian article for (ahem) those of a certain age...
Cast your mind back to 1977:
Cast your mind back to 1977:
A few days ago:A Mormon missionary from Utah called Kirk Anderson, who was going door-to-door in Ewell, Surrey, was kidnapped at gunpoint by McKinney, a former cheerleader and beauty queen from North Carolina. With the help of a friend, Keith May, McKinney drugged Anderson with chloroform and drove him to a rented 17th century cottage near Okehampton, Devon. There the unfortunate young man was chained, spreadeagled, to a bed, with several pairs of mink-lined handcuffs, and over the next few days he was repeatedly required to have sex with McKinney, who later explained that she had been keen to bear his child.
Full story here (really deserves to be one of those April Fools ones but it's possibly true).But then last Tuesday, courtesy of the Associated Press news agency, came the delightful story of one "Bernann" McKinney, whose pet dog Booger the pit bull terrier had been successfully cloned by a team of South Korean scientists.