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To: HiTech RedNeck

Little Johnnie was a chemist

Little Johnnie is no more

What Johnnie thought was H2O

Was H2SO4.


50 posted on 10/06/2009 7:17:29 AM PDT by Graybeard58 ( Selah.)
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To: Graybeard58

Auntie Jane gave Baby Nell
What she thought was calomel
But alas what baby ate
Was corrosive sublimate
A dreadful error I confess
One atom and one baby less

I remember that, and this one, posted on the science bulletin board in HIGH SCHOOL (70’s). I can’t believe that brain cell’s still alive! I did have to look up the chemicals (Corrosive sublimate - HgCl2; Calomel - Hg2Cl2) though I remember them being shown as footnotes. There was one more poem on the sheet, which I’ll probably wake up at 2 am remembering.


54 posted on 10/06/2009 9:38:56 AM PDT by nina0113
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