A Canadian dentist is hoping to clone John Lennon using DNA from one of the singer's rotten teeth. He's already gotten a molar in an auction (for £19,500) and is now sequencing his DNA.

The sheer amount of "Wah?" is staggering. Besides the question if it's possible to get a healthy baby from the process (poor Dolly), there is no way in heck that the baby being born will actually grow up to be (like) John Lennon. Not without the way Lennon was raised, the years spend in Berlin before the Beatles became famous, or the people around him who influenced John Lennon. Not to mention the pressure the poor kid will undergo from the moment he's born: everybody expects to him to be a musical genius, so he has no choice in how he grows up, other than the mental image (idealized memory) of thousands of people around the world.

(Wouldn't it be hilarious if the cloned baby turns out to be a spitting image of Lennon's former housekeeper, and this is the way we find out that the person who sold it in 2011 was actually a fraud or made a mistake?)

Not to mention the ethical implications. Besides the (as yet unresolved) question if we should clone (humans) at all, did someone ask Yoko Ono or other next of kin? Plus, he seems to be using it also (more?) as a promotion for his other businesses: pendants and a sculpture made from Lennon's "tooth dust", a photo book of celebrity champers, the parody song Love Me Tooth, and other initiatives to promote awareness of mouth cancer.

"Haha" worthy, but with a frownie face.