09-16-2005, 04:11 PM
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| We had a lab assistant once decided to rinse out some bottles formerly used for storing phosphorus in toluene. Phosphorus and water reacted, creating flame. Flame meets toluene, filled the entire floor of the building with smoke and little black motes. One of the best fire drills I remember. My wife's uncle used to be a fireman. Didn't get killed once in his entire career.
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09-16-2005, 09:47 PM
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#302 | | Boom!
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| I spilled 6m ammonia over my arm during a chemistry lab. It took me a moment to get to the sprinkler (since I couldn't see because my eyes were watering so much), and I thought I was okay. The next morning when I woke up, my arm was totally white - and if I blew on it, little flecks of skin like dust puffed off it in a little cloud. And hoo-boy, did it itch!
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09-16-2005, 10:31 PM
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| I had ammonia once.......made my lungs fill with fluid and I got this nasty cough......Ended up in the hospital for a few days. But I lived, so all is good. | |
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09-16-2005, 11:46 PM
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| An old remedy for things like jellyfish stings is to spritz a small amount of amonia on the sting. A good way of doing this is getting Windex w/amonia and just lightly spritzing it on the sting. My grandmother used to use this on all us little kids. I can't vouch for safety but it did relieve the sting!
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09-17-2005, 12:45 AM
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#305 | | Boom!
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| Was that because it rendered you unconscious?
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09-17-2005, 02:45 AM
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| Speaking of unconscious, I've been having a really hard time sleeping lately (oh, the last fourteen or fifteen years or so). Docs prescribed all kinds of stuff, but the only thing that worked well was xanax, and I stopped taking it because I didn't want to get hooked. What do you do to help you sleep?
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09-17-2005, 08:27 AM
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| I find a good hour and a half run always helps me sleep. Cleanses the mind and the body.
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09-17-2005, 10:39 AM
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| I don't sleep. Haven't slept a full night in over 6 years, maybe 7. I live in a constant state of sleep deprivation, so I'm definitely not a morning person. Why don't more fencing tournaments happen in the evening? I'd kick butt if I could fence an event during the same hours that I usually fence.
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09-17-2005, 06:30 PM
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| I'm the only persn i know that says i am a morning person. After about 1am I'm as much use as a chocolate teapot.
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09-17-2005, 07:39 PM
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| A chocolate teapot? That would really be quite useful. Do you know how difficult it is to find a proper assam teapot in the Midwest? I looked for a couple of months - then they opened a lovely tea shop downtown that sold them.
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09-17-2005, 08:48 PM
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#311 | | Boom!
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| You know what I never understood... "tempest in a teapot". Isn't that kind of a useless phrase?
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09-17-2005, 09:51 PM
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| I saw The Tempest once on stage and really enjoyed it.
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09-17-2005, 10:07 PM
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#313 | | Boom!
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| I don't get stage fright.
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09-17-2005, 11:14 PM
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| You're a lucky bastard. Hm, I just realized how common the word 'bastard' is used in conversation when the connotations associated with it are far worse than that of f*cker or other so called worse curses.
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09-18-2005, 12:54 PM
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| Speaking of curses, have you heard the song "Man with a Hex" sung by the Atomic Fireballs?
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09-18-2005, 01:10 PM
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| Have you ever lost the hex wrench just when you needed to tighten your weapon's handle? It's so aggravating.
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09-18-2005, 01:33 PM
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| you know what's really aggravating? when people carry on loudly during a movie or play, and either ignore the shushers or get worse. people should be allowed to shoot such offenders since no jury would convict them anyway.
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09-18-2005, 01:49 PM
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#318 | | Boom!
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| Bang on, Epee_Pox. Restaurants, theatres, offices, public transit, and shopping malls would be much nicer places.
Mind you, there'd probably be many fewer people in them then... 
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09-18-2005, 02:21 PM
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#319 | | Immortal
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| I had a friend who used to say that it would go a long way toward ensuring civility if there was one day a year where you could kill anyone you wanted without penalty.
But I just go out into the woods instead and chill out--don't you think we need more woods and fewer malls?
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09-18-2005, 03:03 PM
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| What's the best wood for bookcases? I need to make some, so I can get my books out of boxes and up where I can use them. Or at least find them. You can never have too many bookcases, don't you agree? | |
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