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- From: dst@hardy.u.washington.edu (Dale Tanigawa)
- Subject: Re: Net's Funniest Kitchen Disasters
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.114527.27420@u.washington.edu>
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- Organization: Care Bear Dismemberment Society
- References: <1992Dec23.234214.27493@Cadence.COM>
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 11:45:27 GMT
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- >>roder@cco.caltech.edu (Brenda J. Roder) writes:
- >>> Supposedly when the first dishwashing liquid came out, someone in
- >>> Cincinnati (home of Proctor and Gamble who probably came out with said
- >>> liquid), dumped a case of the stuff into the big fountain downtown.
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- There are a few legends here at the UW involving Drumheller Fountain, which
- is bordered on one side by the chemistry building. Drumheller is a nice
- big pondish sized fountain. One of the legends is that someone launched a
- can of sodium from the chemistry building into the fountain---sodium reacts
- explosively with water. The other is slightly more entertaining. Supposedly,
- a grad student dumped a failed experiment in the fountain where it reacted
- with all the duck shit to become something else entirely. The resulting
- substance was a flourescent orange-yellow, and heavier than water so you
- couldn't see it from looking from above (due to aforementioned duck shit).
- When the fountain was turned on for its daily display, it sucked the stuff
- off the bottom and spewed it into the air, resulting in a nice orangey-yellow
- water plume, and lots of flourescent glow-in-the-dark ducks.
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