maxwell wrote:
>> satchi <satchi at mindspring.com> wrote in message
> news:3ADC8A3C.22B7D6EE at mindspring.com...> > maxwell wrote:
> > >
> > > satchi <satchi at mindspring.com> wrote in message
> > > news:3ADC3ADE.E6893E0C at mindspring.com...> > > > Jonathan Allan wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > satchi wrote:
> > > > > > Mark Wallace wrote:
> > > > > > > "Riboflavin" <ribo at mindspring.com> wrote in message
> > > > > > > news:9bgl3r$7nu$1 at slb5.atl.mindspring.net...> > > > > > > > Charles R Martin wrote in message ...
> > > > > > > > >> "If I was a hopeless cad, I apologize."
> > > > > > > > >> "If I were a hopeless cad, I would never apologize."
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > >See, native English speakers know the difference.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > >Now, what's a "cad" again? ;-)
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > It's a kind of fish, I think.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > They are caught with cadpoles.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Usually on Cape Cad
> > > > >
> > > > > Not anymore. Eating cads caught in territorial waters is
> > > dangerous because of elevated mercury and dioxin levels (must be
> all the
> > > > > button batteries and cell phone instruction pamphlets that get
> trashed unread).
> > > >
> > > > I have a brother who ate so much mercury filled cad we
> > > > put him outside when we want to know the temperature.
> > > >
> > > > Satchi
> > > > http://www.bombhumor.com> > >
> > > That was a very quicksilver reply :~)
> >
> > Thanks (blush) but I can't take all the
> > credit, I owe it to my home town: Love Canal
> > Satchi
> > http://www.bombhumor.com>> Heh. I can truly appreciate that. Though the only famous canal nearby
> to my present home
> is admittedly less, um, 'enhanced' than the un-Lovely ditch of renown
> (okay--the Gowanus)
> I grew up in a charmingly medieval industrial hamlet of NJ. As
> children we played on many hills,
> that hindsight reveals were in fact slag heaps, and at times amused
> ourselves with the brilliant blue
> pebbles strewn copiously there. Chromium waste.
I spent my childhood in Florida and one of my greatest delights was
to follow behind the mosquito spray trucks and get soaked with
what we didn't realize at the time was probably DDT or something
equally as toxic. I did this almost daily. Also during this time
we were given the coolest necklaces to wear in kindergarten. It
wasn't until I was much older that I realized that they were
DOG TAGS! Made so that if the Cubans did blow us up we'd still be
identifiable.
Satchi
Glowing at night does have it's advantages, though.
http://www.bombhumor.com