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To: stand watie; Heyworth; M. Espinola
i do NOT know that this is FACT, but a longtime "member in good standing" of a local CW Round-table near DC told me Saturday night,that the substance Dr Morton "invented" (now called HEROIN)was FIRST called "MORTONITE".

My God, just how stupid do you take us to be? If good ol' Doctor Morton had in fact "invented" heroin as you say he did - a claim not supported by any reference I'm aware of - then he would not have called it "Mortonite". He would have called it....diacetylmorphine. Or something close to that. The naming conventions for organic chemical compounds had been established by the French in the 1790s and had been accepted world wide. Heroin is called that for the same reason aspirin is called aspirin, because that was the name it was marketed under when Bayer introduced it.

However, you have given me inspiration. I propose that we give all future stand waite discoveries their only scientific label. I suggest we call them 'Moronite'.

954 posted on 03/27/2006 3:04:24 PM PST by Non-Sequitur
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To: Non-Sequitur; Heyworth; A Jovial Cad; justshutupandtakeit; Colonel Kangaroo; tkathy
"Moronite"..

...Is a perfectly suitable term for Capitan U-boat man.

Anyone would require aspirin after reading his perpetual baloney.

959 posted on 03/28/2006 12:04:01 AM PST by M. Espinola (Freedom is not free)
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To: Non-Sequitur

Nothing beats ole stand for laughs though. NOTHING


968 posted on 03/28/2006 9:25:23 AM PST by justshutupandtakeit (If you believe ANYTHING in the Treason Media you are a fool.)
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