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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (174584)2/3/2009 10:25:59 AM
From: ManyMoose  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 225578
 
Actually, what GGGGgrandpa did was sniff it a little too much Nitrous Oxide with people like Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Mary Shelley, Robert Burns, and others who wanted to talk like Donald Duck. He died pretty young.

He did invent the carbide lamp, for which King George was so grateful that he knighted Sir Humphry. It revolutionized the coal mining industry.