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Re: [OM] mercury batteries-OT story

Subject: Re: [OM] mercury batteries-OT story
From: Michael Gardner <mlgardner99@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 18:04:09 -0400

"Timpe, Jim" wrote:
> 
> How many of us 'played' with mercury as kids?   Remember watching it 'ball
> up' and roll so oddly about???
> 
> Anybody seen the mad-hatter about lately?

I remember in junior high school in the late 60's, the science teacher
had a small jar of
mercury he would get out from time to time and let some of us handle
it.  Maybe he knew what
he was doing as he was a bit of a sadist anyway.  His idea of punishment
was to hand a disruptive student a stack of textbooks that you had to
hold out at arm's length in front of you and walk up and down the
hallway X number of times.  If you faltered, you got to start over
again.

Payback came on graduation night when someone firmly planted a large raw
potato into the end of the exhaust pipe on his car.  Unfortunately for
him, when he started his car, his muffler was the weak link.
Kaboom! :0

Mike Gardner

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