April 8, 2000

8:41 AM

Dihydrogen Monoxide -- the unsuspected health threat! It should be banned by the government! (Let's get some citizen activism going here.)
posted by Steven Den Beste (2 comments total)

Otherwise known as H₂O.
posted by hobbes at 11:25 AM on April 8, 2000

I'm not so sure about that-- it sound a offal lot like 'carbon monoxide' which we know is a odorless, colorless, tasteless, silent, intangible, deadly gas, poisonous to human, rat, swallow, and all other aerobic organisms. So I wouldn't take this mitrogen monoside or whatever too lightly. This is the first I've heard of it, and my uncle is a chemist at the largest local foundry-- he would've told me, he cares for his kinfolk. I think we ought all to go down to Sears Roebuck and demand have they got detectors.

regards,
Archifern Popocapitapel
posted by EngineBeak at 1:12 PM on April 8, 2000