Re: Ed Dolan the Great and wine

"Tom Sherman" <sunsetss0003@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Edward Dolan wrote:
>> "Tom Sherman" <sunsetss0003@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>> Edward Dolan wrote:
>>>> "Tom Sherman" <sunsetss0003@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>>>>> 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 heard 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]

Something I only do rarely. After all, looking things up will not make you

any wiser, only more knowledgeable.

>> 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.

God help this newsgroup if I ever go into a librarian mode of operation. 
Nay, it is better for everyone if I do things off the top of my head. 
Scholar****p had best be left to scholars.

Regards,

Ed Dolan the Great - Minnesota
aka
Saint Edward the Great - Order of the Perpetual Sorrows - Minnesota