Re: Ed Dolan the Grate and wine

Edward Dolan wrote:
> "Tom Sherman" <sunsetss0003@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
> news:g5d8bf$v35$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> Edward Dolan wrote:
>>> "Tom Sherman" <sunsetss0003@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message 
>>> news:g5bn0b$23r$1@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>> Edward Dolan wrote:
>>>>> ...
>>>>> Now it is time for Tom Sherman to tell us what he drinks!
>>>>>
>>>> Dihydrogen Monoxide!
>>> I think alcohol would be safer!
>>>
>> butbutbut [1], Ed lives in a state that advertises that it has 10,000 
>> surface depressions filled with dihydrogen monoxide!
> 
> Have you gone insane or what? I have never hear of water being
designated as 
> dihydrogen monoxide.
> 
> "The dihydrogen monoxide hoax involves listing negative effects of water

> under an unfamiliar scientific name, then asking individuals to help
control 
> the seemingly dangerous substance (caused by most people knowing the
word 
> "monoxide" as part of the name of the poisonous gas "carbon monoxide").
The 
> hoax is designed to illustrate how the lack of scientific knowledge and
an 
> exaggerated analysis can lead to misplaced fears.[1] Dihydrogen
monoxide, 
> shortened to DHMO, is a scientific name for water that, while
technically 
> correct, is almost never employed.
> The hoax was created by Eric Lechner, Lars Norpchen and Matthew Kaufman,

> housemates while attending UC Santa Cruz in 1990,[2] revised by Craig 
> Jackson in 1994,[3] and brought to widespread public attention in 1997
when 
> Nathan Zohner, a 14-year-old student, gathered petitions to ban "DHMO"
as 
> the basis of his science project, titled "How Gullible Are We?"[4]"
> 
>               - Wikipedia
> 
Hey, I made Ed Dolan look something up! [1]

> How is it that you seem to know **** like this that no one else does?
Damn 
> it to Hell - get a life why don't you!
> 
Nomenclature is part of any proper basic chemistry course.

[1] "As former librarian I NEVER look up anything  - EVER! I have had my 
fill of looking things up." - Ed Dolan on alt.rec.bicycles.re***bent, 
November 5, 2006.

-- 
Tom Sherman - Holstein-Friesland Bovinia
"People who had no mercy will find none." - Anon.