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To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (31632)	4/3/2005 11:18:50 PM
From: Oeconomicus	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 90947

LOL. My high school chemistry teacher poured acetone all over a lab table, lit it, then asked the girl sitting there if she knew where the fire extinguisher was and how to use it. Great fun. ;-)

To: Lady Lurksalot who wrote (31632)	4/3/2005 11:34:19 PM
From: Lazarus_Long	Respond to of 90947

I think we've had this conversation re smoking many, many times. <g> "I think we're still under a thousand. For all the good it hasn't done." Who knows? Someday, it might take. <g> When death do us part. Assuming you predecease me. :-) When I lived in the SF Bay Area, I used to look out my windows and see the oil refineries and the C&H sugar factory. I would regularly see ships which looked like the Exxon Valdez sail by. "Hey, you put that stuff in your gas tank every week. What are you worried about? :-)" I liked looking at the refineries and boats. They are right pretty at night, all lit up as they are. How about the explosions, flares, spews, and alarms? Did you like those? Remember when we were discussing high school chemistry classes and the things we were permitted to do then that surely are not allowed now in those classes? "Yeah, they're no fun anymore. :-)" I would imagine they are not. But then, there was that something my lab partner and I did in class which prompted our chemistry teacher to remark that he did not want to have to be teaching chemistry out under a tree because somebody had blown up his lab. He always did seem a little hyper, though. He and I would NOT have gotten along!