CHALE, WORM

My friend Monica in Santa Fe, N.M., once told me of a drinking phrase when you're out drinking with your vatos: "Chale, worm."

Now, apparently, scientists have found a drunkenness gene in worms.

"After six years of work on the project, McIntire can now spot a soused worm about as well as a highway patrol trooper can spot a drunken driver," states the Associated Press story.

Worms are hermaphrodites, of course, yet no one thought to ask if drunken worms end up making out with themselves.