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When I was a chld, I hated to go to school.
The only way to avoid this was to be recognized as sick.
Body temperature of 37.1 C was sufficient for this,
and once i inserted the termometer end to my soup to simulate this
temperature. I was surprised that the termometer cracked within a
second:-)
Then there was a difficult moral problem: to eat my soup as if nothing
happened, and tell my parents that I accidentally broke the termometer
by dropping it on the floor,
Or to confess about what I did. I confessed, because I was afraid of
the pieces of glass in the soup...


Alex.

On Tue, 31 Dec 2013, Frank Reed wrote:

>
> Ah, yes... playing with liquid Mercury when we were kids.
> Letting little balls of it roll around in our palms... marveling at its
> luster and its obvious weight even in small quantities. It's a pleasure
> of childhood that today's kids are not allowed. Children have been
> playing with liquid Mercury since the days of Ancient Egypt. The sons of
> the pharaohs all played with Mercury... And look what happened to them:
> they ended up marrying their sisters, and now they're all DEAD! Dead,
> dead, dead. Every last Ancient Egyptian who played with Mercury is DEAD.
> Let that be a lesson to you.
>
> ;)
>
> Happy New Year, y'all!
>
> -FER
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