To: Bernard Marx
You know, people keep stabbing themselves with forks. If we put our minds to it, we can prepare all food to be consumed with spoons. Should we outlaw forks next? I also recommend Brothers Outraged Over Bathtubs.
To: Arthur Wildfire! March
Actually, as a goldsmith I'll be delighted to see mercury thermometers phased out. Mercury gloms onto gold like mud on a pig. Nurses, especially, are constantly breaking thermometers and 'mercury-plating' their prized gold rings. Removing it is one of the nastier jobs a jeweler faces. It has to be done with heat and breathing the fumes is decidedly bad for the health. It's a job I'd just as soon never do again.
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