"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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