Completely and totally off-topic and without any meritwhatsoever

From: Joe R. <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Tue Sep 7 12:40:54 2004

At 02:41 AM 9/6/04 -0400, you wrote:
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>On Sun, 5 Sep 2004, Vintage Computer Festival wrote:
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>> I've got some quicksilver that I liberated from some evacuated glass tubes
>> by cracking the tips of the tubes and then emptying the contents into a
>> container. Unfortunately, some tiny glass shards got into the container
>> and is now mixed in. How can I filter out the glass shards so they don't
>> cut up my esophagus when I drink it?
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> Ya sure ya ain't been *sniffing* it...????
>
> Don't let them damn EPAnazis read this - there'll be a HazNat team camped
>out for a year at the cordoned-off and domed-over hole in the ground what
>used to be that building - of course now it's a SuperFund Site - our Tax
>Dollars hard at work...

  Speaking of that. A few years ago they had a plastic bottle of mercury
sitting over at the surplus disposal at Patrik AFB (part of Kennedy Space
Center). The bottle had been sitting for a long time and gotten brittle.
Someone tried to pick it up and it shattered and spilled mercury
everywhere. They made everyone stay exactly where they were and called the
haz mat crew. They came and made everyone strip, yeah, naked! Male and
female. And then made them walk out into the parking lot where they sprayed
them down with firehoses (in front of the rapidly gathering crowd!) So
this is what you have to look forward to Sellam!

    Joe
Received on Tue Sep 07 2004 - 12:40:54 BST