[FreeTheHostages]

In reality, iron is the one nucleus that can't be used for fuel, but I'm glad I didn't know that as a 12-year-old just the same.

LOL. Hmm, I distinctly recall based on an experience of mine as a 12-year old -- my coffee ice cream landed on a corroding iron railing of a bridge in a small Vermont town and I greedily tried to retrieve and consume it -- that iron (especially when it's oxidizing and getting all weirdly brown and just turning rusty-colored, disguising itself well in the ice cream) does NOT taste good. I convulsed immediately, never did swallow, and still can't the taste completely off my tongue.

OK, that was totally off track but there you are. Iron tastes bad. Or, to be scientifically precise, at least when you're 12 years old and you attempt to consume it in a partially oxidized form in combination with coffee ice cream.

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my coffee ice cream landed on a corroding iron railing of a bridge in a small Vermont town and I greedily tried to retrieve and consume it

"In the news tonite, Ben & Jerry's, Vermont's premiere ice-cream makers, announce the introduction of their newest flavor; 'Railing & Rust'...... stay tuned, filmed report at 11. Meanwhile, former Governor Howard Dean claims he is being followed on the presidential campaign trail by a 30 foot tall fiberglas "Truth Cow that goes "Moooooooo! Moooo!" and poops simulated 'pasture patties' everytime he tells a whopper...." Doctors say Dean should be stabilized enough to be released from the Brattleboro Retreat in time for the New Hampshire Primary."