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| 3/18/07
| cp124
Posted on 03/18/2007 6:53:30 AM PDT by cp124
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To: cp124
Good intentions fulilled in ignorance often result in a small circle of good feelings and large rippiling waves of disasterous consequences.
To: FractalMan
oops, spelling...
Good intentions fulfilled in ignorance usually result in a small circle of good feelings and large rippiling waves of disasterous consequences.
To: cp124
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posted on
03/18/2007 7:20:22 AM PDT
by
Don Corleone
(Leave the gun..take the cannoli)
To: cp124
When I was in college (in the 70s), we had 2 mercury "incidents". One of the grad students threw a roll of tape and hit the mercury barometer. That was about 5 pounds of mercury that went everywhere. It was just swept up and tossed it in the garbage. I guess that would make the building a superfund site now. To the best of my knowlege, we are still all alive.
The second occurred when we were tasked to set up a weather station at a junior college in suburban Chicago. The prof suggested we take some murcury along in case their mercury barometer was not "loaded". Not knowing how much we would need, we took about 25 lbs along. It was in 5 bottles sitting on the floorboard of the car...driving into Chicago. I guess by today's standards, that would make us terrorists...and the car a WMD.
How times change...
mesoman7
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posted on
03/18/2007 7:21:29 AM PDT
by
mesoman7
To: Kolokotronis
What a crock! I remember as a kid we used to play with mercury on our desk tops at school. 'Course, that might explain the two heads some of my friends have! :)I remember a science teacher telling us to be careful with a little bit of mercury that he poured into our hands! We needed to be careful with it, because it was so expensive! He did tell us that we needed to wash our hands before lunch, though.
Mark
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posted on
03/18/2007 7:22:14 AM PDT
by
MarkL
(When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
To: P-Marlowe
What is it going to cost to clean up all the arsenic and cyanide and selenium after you spill a glass of tap water?Who cares about arsenic, cyanide, or selenuim? What we REALLY need to worry about when you spill water is all the dihydrogen monoxide! That stuff will kill you!
Mark
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posted on
03/18/2007 7:24:40 AM PDT
by
MarkL
(When Kaylee says "No power in the `verse can stop me," it's cute. When River says it, it's scary!)
To: PeteB570
Honey, the man is here to change the light bulb.
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posted on
03/18/2007 7:26:44 AM PDT
by
tet68
( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
To: BMIC
Sounds like Maine is just plain stupid!
Yes...Moonbatville
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posted on
03/18/2007 7:27:11 AM PDT
by
cp124
(Republican=Conservative Lite)
To: Ole Okie
...and a mercury on a penny looked very good :-)I guess I wasn't the only one...:-)))
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posted on
03/18/2007 7:29:16 AM PDT
by
QQQQ
To: FractalMan
Good intentions fulilled in ignorance often result in a small circle of good feelings and large rippiling waves of disasterous consequences. Hey, I like that.
That should be put in every fortune cookie for the next ten years.
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posted on
03/18/2007 7:31:59 AM PDT
by
vikzilla
To: MarkL
YES!
I read an article about Dihydrogen Monoxide. THE STUFF IS EVERYWHERE, IN EVERYTHING!!!!
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posted on
03/18/2007 7:33:26 AM PDT
by
dirtbiker
(I'm a liberal's worst nightmare: Redneck with a pickup, library card, and a concealed carry permit)
To: BMIC
Maine is preternaturally stupid. Have you ever been there? The place is so loaded with Chicken Littles that it has become the new home for psychiatrists tired of their New York City schtick. The only reason that the Republicans can count on two senators is that the male population is so hen-pecked it wouldn't dare vote for a male.
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posted on
03/18/2007 7:35:55 AM PDT
by
Melchior
To: cp124
Mercury. Used to make dimes and other change shine. Never used any gloves and most of the other kids did it. So what is the reason that now one needs a multi-thousand dollar uniform to handle a little bit of Mercury?
Why or Why do they lie and lie? Because someone is making a lot of money off of the suits and contracts with the EPA and local agencies.
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posted on
03/18/2007 7:37:47 AM PDT
by
YOUGOTIT
(56 Supporters of al Qaeda are seated in the US Senate)
To: Don Corleone
I think you mean dihydrogen monoxide.
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posted on
03/18/2007 7:40:58 AM PDT
by
coloradan
(Failing to protect the liberties of your enemies establishes precedents that will reach to yourself.)
To: jiggyboy
Oooh, oooh, oooooh, I'll sell you a Broken CF Offset for just $500. You throw your broken CF into the trash, send me the money and I'll plant .... h#ll, I'll plant something, OK?
Maybe I can open an eBay store and sell these.
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posted on
03/18/2007 7:42:09 AM PDT
by
true_blue_texican
(...against all enemies, foreign and domestic...)
To: cp124
Mercury footprint futures?
To: cp124
![That's all folks!](http://home.granderiver.net/~capnjim/misc/porky.gif)
Click the Pic J
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posted on
03/18/2007 7:44:04 AM PDT
by
Fiddlstix
(Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
To: BMIC
Sounds like Maine is just plain stupid! The amount of mercury involved is negligible, when you consider the total volume of waste genreated by a household. Maine's geology is spiked with beryllium, uranium and thorium.
They should all run away just for the radon threats.
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posted on
03/18/2007 7:46:30 AM PDT
by
Gorzaloon
(Global Warming: A New Kind Of Scientology for the Rest Of Us.)
To: sgtbono2002
**** To me the biggest danger of those tubes is getting crap shocked out of you while you hold both ends trying to guide the little pins in the slot. ****
No, you're talking about Halogen Bulbs, they have the two pins.
The only danger with them is ... BURNING YOUR HOUSE DOWN. The surface temp of a 20 Watt Halogen Desk Lamp Bulb reaches about 69 Bazillon Degrees Fahrenheit (actually 350oF, or oven temp when cooking a Turkey).
But on the upside they last for 2000 hours - if they don't start a fire first.
;-)
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posted on
03/18/2007 7:47:30 AM PDT
by
Condor51
(Rudy makes John Kerry look like a Right Wing 'Gun Nut' Extremist)
To: true_blue_texican
Oooh, oooh, oooooh, I'll sell you a Broken CF Offset for just $500. You throw your broken CF into the trash, send me the money and I'll plant .... h#ll, I'll plant something, OK?
Dine on pickled eggs are release hydrogen sulfide; it locks up mercury into the insoluble sulfide.
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posted on
03/18/2007 7:48:34 AM PDT
by
Gorzaloon
(Global Warming: A New Kind Of Scientology for the Rest Of Us.)
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