Stuck On You!
– – Well, the Geico Gecko has a great Cockney accent, and the SoBe beverages lizards have dance moves to make the late Michael Jackson proud…but scientists for years have been fascinated with the gecko, because of his uncanny ability to climb the smoothest of surfaces and hang there, by a single toe if necessary.
A Pennsylvania professor has found that a gecko’s toes have millions of very small hairs, each one-tenth the width of a human hair. At the end of each hair are hundreds of saucerlike structures called spatula. Weak forces of attraction hold each spatula to a surface, and the combined force from millions of hairs create a powerful bond that enables the gecko to stick to nearly anything.
Hopes are to commercialize on the gecko’s adhesive ability …a good bet, since the gecko has been commercial gold, already! 
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October 6, 2009 at 5:57 pm
Maybe so.
But, I still wouldn’t slice any cake with _those_ spatulas!
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October 6, 2009 at 10:51 pm
As the gecko has been heard to say, then: “fancy a crisp?”
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October 8, 2009 at 7:28 pm
Only if it’s a Lay’s potato chip.
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October 8, 2009 at 7:29 pm
…or two (because no one can eat just one).
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