I remember kids in school (6th grade I think) pressing mercury into pocket
change with their fingers. It would make coins real shiny, temporarily
atleast. Even back then I thought maybe that it wasn't a good idea to touch
it. When was it decided that mercury was poisonous? Didn't teachers know
then (1964?)
John Hermanson
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Gardner" <mlgardner99@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] mercury batteries-OT story
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|
| "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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