Comments on: if it's worth doing it once...

if it's worth doing it once...

triv — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:24:21 -0800

Remember the Dihydrogen Monoxide parody from a few years ago?

lethal if inhaled, causes severe burns in its gaseous state, and is the major component in acid rain...

Snopes does. Mefi does too.

In a reworking of a classic story, City Councillors in Orange County were about to debate the pressing issue of Dihydrogen Monoxide before realising that the dangerous chemical was, in fact, water.

By: jpoulos

jpoulos — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:34:50 -0800

"It's embarrassing," said City Manager David J. Norman. "We had a paralegal who did bad research." What an asshole.

By: fenriq

fenriq — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:40:10 -0800

Blame it on the lowest paid person in the office, that's smart managing. Nice that the Guardian is paying such close attention to news stories in California though.

By: red

red — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:48:50 -0800

double. It's hella hard to search for however, and the thread was shit.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:48:53 -0800

it think we just had this thread.

By: quonsar

quonsar — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 15:56:02 -0800

yes, i'm still trying to dry off from it.

By: crazy finger

crazy finger — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 16:07:38 -0800

Quonsar double-posted a double-post call out!

By: laz-e-boy

laz-e-boy — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 16:09:19 -0800

Remember the Dihydrogen Monoxide post from a few weeks ago?

By: red

red — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 16:12:09 -0800

new zealand's green party also tried to ban it

By: quonsar

quonsar — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 16:23:53 -0800

actually, a triple post callout, becasue the poster himself called the first one out in the post itself! i think this may be a candidate for ripley's. (though in fairness..., GAD! WHAT AM I SAYING!!!!)

By: red

red — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 16:34:36 -0800

quadruple!

By: Witty

Witty — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 16:52:22 -0800

What an asshole. Indeed... and most paralegals are.

By: jonmc

jonmc — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 17:32:57 -0800

This thread is all wet.

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Wed, 24 Mar 2004 21:14:59 -0800

" `One moment,' the merchant said. `Because you haven't bargained with me I want to tell you something. Look here, he is a quonsar of course, and quonsars are no good, you know that don't you?' `And you said he was an excellent quonsar.' The gentleman said indignantly. `Sure, sure,' the merchant said, `And that's true as well. He is an excellent quonsar, but he is not good. He will always remain a quonsar. You have made a good buy, but only on the condition that you keep him going all the time....." [ apologies to Janwillen De Vetering, and "The Empty Mirror" ] I thought it was a great thread, especially for Dreamghost's post of that altered "Free Quonsar!" picture which had a youngish Richard Nixon doing a photo-op on the Capital Building steps. Tricky Dick was shaking hands (or claws? talons?) with a live turkey. It was charming. But, everyone ran away from the thread when I started preaching about how nursing mothers flush, in their breast milk, PCB's, PAH's, and Dioxin into their infants. Or maybe it was that "parable of the no-good Quonsar"?

By: troutfishing

troutfishing — Thu, 25 Mar 2004 06:36:49 -0800

oops. I did it here too. damn!