From: Lee Daniel Crocker (lcrocker@mercury.colossus.net)
Date: Mon Aug 23 1999 - 17:30:32 MDT
>> I think my grandfather (who was a science teacher) may
>> have been a match for you two. He dumped about a
>> kilo of old sodium off of a bridge over the Charles
>> River in Boston many years ago. The next day the
>> papers read "Charles River Boils"....
> Of course everybody knows that the best method of disposing sodium is
> wrapping big chunks of it in toilet paper & flushing it down,
> preferably in a multi-storey building. Yellowstone fun...
Taking a chemistry course ought to be listed as a hazardous
activity in course catalogues. My father has always had hassles
getting his military security clearance because three of his
fingers have no prints--these having been burned off by molten
sulfur in a chemistry lab. I was a bit clumsy with some liquid
nitrogen once--fortunately it only broke off parts of my bell-
bottoms and sneakers and left my feet intact. One doesn't just
pass a Chemistry course; one survives it.
-- Lee Daniel Crocker <lee@piclab.com> <http://www.piclab.com/lcrocker.html> "All inventions or works of authorship original to me, herein and past, are placed irrevocably in the public domain, and may be used or modified for any purpose, without permission, attribution, or notification."--LDC
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